No green rosewood trees are allowed to be cut in India except private plantation trees. Only dead and fallen trees are brought into the auction where the rosewood logs are sold.
In Karnataka where we purchase most of our rosewood logs from, employs a very strong methodology in the conducting of auctions and also harvesting procedure for rosewood trees.
The Government is aware that rosewood is a very precious wood and hence only dead and fallen trees are allowed to be auctioned at the various Government Timber depots located at various locations all over Karanataka.
There are a lot of restrictions and also imprisonment in case of violation of any of the Forest rules as per the Karnataka Forest Act.
The rosewood trade is not the same anymore due to inclusion of Dalbergia spp under CITES Appendix II list from January 2nd, 2017. The Wildlife crime control bureau provides all the exporters with a Comparable document under CITES for all the rosewood material exported from India. In order to apply for the Comparable document under CITES, the exporters have to first obtain a Legal Procurement certificate. This certificate is only provided after the complete verification of the procurement as well as the processing produce from the rosewood logs by the relevant official from the Forest department.
No green rosewood trees are allowed to be cut in India except private plantation trees. Only dead and fallen trees are brought into the auction where the rosewood logs are sold.
In Karnataka where we purchase most of our rosewood logs from, employs a very strong methodology in the conducting of auctions and also harvesting procedure for rosewood trees.
The Government is aware that rosewood is a very precious wood and hence only dead and fallen trees are allowed to be auctioned at the various Government Timber depots located at various locations all over Karanataka.
There are a lot of restrictions and also imprisonment in case of violation of any of the Forest rules as per the Karnataka Forest Act.
The rosewood trade is not the same anymore due to inclusion of Dalbergia spp under CITES Appendix II list from January 2nd, 2017. The Wildlife crime control bureau provides all the exporters with a Comparable document under CITES for all the rosewood material exported from India. In order to apply for the Comparable document under CITES, the exporters have to first obtain a Legal Procurement certificate. This certificate is only provided after the complete verification of the procurement as well as the processing produce from the rosewood logs by the relevant official from the Forest department.