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American Mahogany

Educational resources on American Mahogany

American Mahogany or Swietenia mahagoni is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to A1cd. IUCN Profile of the American Mahogany

Academic web links for the American Mahogany.


Ethnobotanical Leaflets: The American mahogany, S. mahogani, looked identical to the African Mahogany, Khaya sengalensis. For this reason the Yorubas referred ...
http://www.siu.edu/~ebl/leaflets/mahogany.htm

CITES Delegates Vote to Shield Endangered Species: The decision to list big-leaf mahogany, also known as American mahogany, on Appendix II of CITES is clear evidence of this new role, Lieberman said. ...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/innews/citesdel2002.htm

NATIVE-L (December 1994): No CITES Listing/Mahogany: Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), today rejected by a narrow margin a proposal to regulate trade in Latin American mahogany. ...
http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/9412/0083.html

NATIVE-L (August 1994): Mahogany protest re Brazilian Indian lands ...: ...of indigenous peoples. US markets consume more than half of all Latin American mahogany output. Eighty indigenous and environmental ...
http://nativenet.uthscsa.edu/archive/nl/9408/0075.html

Wood: West Indian mahogany. American mahogany. Takes stains well, and it is usually finished with a light reddish-brown or brown stain that brings out the figure. ...
http://online.sfsu.edu/~janets/wood1.htm

Woods available for projects (Mahogany): Carpentry Dept. ...: Mahogany. Woods available for projects (South American Mahogany). Carpentry Department - Northern Arizona University. Click on the photograph to go back. ...
http://dana.ucc.nau.edu/~carp-p/woodmahogany.htm

SEDKC MEMBERSHIP FORM: Others (type below). Andiroba Banak Guatambu Lenga American Mahogany African Mahogany Philippine Mahogany Marupa Ramin. Note: Once ...
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/nreos/wood/dry_kiln/memberform.htm

September 21, 2000 - ICES protests purchase of benches: ...mahogany. The college avoided South American mahogany and chose African mahogany, Public Information Director Dave Maley said. Mahogany ...
http://www.ithaca.edu/ithacan/articles/0009/21/news/ices_protest.htm







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