What a world, where government officials will destroy a musical instrument of beauty and quality sound because they think, somehow, this will stop people from cutting down the same variety of tree in another country...
Has anyone noticed how much good the confiscation and heavens-only-knows-what-disposition of undocumented but legal ivory has curtailed the ivory poaching rate? On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 3:40 PM, Tobiah <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/24/2014 12:29 PM, Dmitry Medvedev wrote: >> >> Well, I can use it as much as I like, as long as I don't take it >> across >> the border. As far as I understood, CITES is concerned only with >> international import/export... > > > Interesting. How do they determine that the wood is actually > one of the regulated species? Do they have a test, or are > there agents that are trained in wood identification? > > Toby > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
