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Premium ❘ ArticleAnalysis June 2024: Is ipê an alternative for pernambuco?
With pernambuco in danger of being permanently off limits to bow makers, could another Brazilian hardwood – ipê – be the solution?
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BlogsThe pernambuco wood dilemma: a call for global responsibility and unity
Connecting cultural heritage and environmental sustainability, Daniel Neves discusses a proposal to include pernambuco in Appendix I of CITES, a change that would significantly impact the global trade of this essential wood
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NewsKnow Your Bow: New online resource for owners and users of pernambuco bows
The guide contains basic facts on pernambuco and information on its conservation and sustainability efforts to help demystify usage of the threatened species
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FocusThe Strad Podcast #69: Heather Noonan on the future of pernambuco
Heather explains the recent decision made to keep pernambuco wood under CITES Appendix II with modified wording, and what it means for musicians and bow makers
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NewsFuture of pernambuco decided at CITES convention
The Brazilian wood will remain on Appendix II with modified wording, rather than being moved up to Appendix I
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News‘An Appendix I listing would silence the voice of musicians’ - Brazil’s pernambuco foundation publishes open letter
The National Pau-Brasil Foundation strikes out against the CITES Appendix I proposal and illustrates its alternatives to ensure pernambuco’s conservation
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BlogsPernambuco: the worst-case scenario
British luthier Benjamin Hebbert outlines the long-term devastating effects to musicians and makers that would result from the classification of pernambuco to CITES Appendix I in November
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News‘A direct attack on our main working tool’: Petition to protect pernambuco from restrictions
The petition is a reaction to the proposal by the Brazilian government to classify pernambuco wood under Appendix I of CITES regulations
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NewsThe frightening future of pernambuco: what could it mean for violin and bow makers?
Lynn Hannings, vice president of the International Alliance of Violin and Bow Makers for Endangered Species, explains how the organisation is acting in support of musicians
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VideoTrees of Music create musical campaign for Pernambuco wood with Indigenous orchestral collaboration
The campaign aims to ’save classical music by saving the Pernambuco tree’ by planting 50,000 saplings to replenish diminished supplies in Brazil