01/12/2025
🎻Share and Spread the words 🎻
While bow makers have been working for decades to conserve pernambuco, the survival of bow makers and pernambuco bows is currently being decided at COP 20 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Europe has failed to present a united front against Brazil’s proposal to classify pernambuco wood in Appendix I of CITES.
In fact, several countries have either chosen to remain silent or to follow Brazil’s proposal.
Several articles, shared on social media, accuse bow makers of being looters and colonisers by spreading false informations !
NO, bow makers are not responsible for the deforestation of the Atlantic Forest!
« The expansion of agriculture is the
main factor, » as CNN points out in an article dated 12 May 2025.
Just one tree per year is enough to supply all French manufacturers.
European consumption, including German manufacturers, is around 12 specimens per year.
The number of pernambuco trees in the wild in Brazil is currently estimated at between 2 and 4 million specimens.
Conservation programmes have already replanted more than 340,000 specimens.
NO, no French professionals are facing legal proceedings for illegal trafficking of pernambuco.
Bow makers already
Sustainable and rational management of this precious resource must be possible, and the profession has been working on this for decades.
Today, it is tragically coming up against the absurd unwillingness of the authorities to make the effort to work together intelligently.
It’s a disaster...
I would like to express my sincere and heartfelt thanks to the representatives of IPCI France-Europe and CSFI, who have been on the front line and have given so much of themselves over the years to see this fight through to the end.
Thank you for sharing and loudly proclaiming our outrage.
