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The mahogany tree species has been pointed out as an endangered species due to the demand of its precious wood. In Costa Rica, the cutting down of Mahogany trees has been prohibited as an effort to conserve the species.
Costa Rica’s forests have transitioned from being a productive wood source for the construction market to being a protected area in order to preserve nature. This has lead to a deficiency in the country’s wood source having reached a 20% deficit, thus forcing the country to import wood from other countries such as Chile, Canada and Nicaragua.
The engineers from the National University have stated that Costa Rica counts with over 150,000 hectares of agroforest land which can be used to exploit the reforestation of precious woods.
By cloning the collected trees, engineers will be able to replant these species in specified areas which will allow their growth as well as their cutting for the use of its wood. The engineers have successfully cloned over 30,000 species which have undergone treatment in order to grow a straight trunk for a better extraction of wood.
From these 30,000 cloned trees, engineers will only replant those which show resistance to the mahogany plague.
[...] 5) A group of engineers from the Research and Forest Services Institute from the National University in Costa Rica have collected over 300 mahogany tree species throughout Central America in order to clone them. The mahogany tree species has been pointed out as an endangered species due to the demand of its precious wood. In Costa Rica, the cutting down of Mahogany trees has been prohibited as an effort to conserve the species. Costa Rica’s forests have transitioned from being a productive wood source for the construction market to being a protected area in order to preserve nature. This has lead to a deficiency in the country’s wood source having reached a 20% deficit, thus forcing the country to import wood from other countries such as Chile, Canada and Nicaragua. The engineers from the National University have stated that Costa Rica counts with over 150,000 hectares of agroforest land which can be used to exploit the reforestation of precious woods. By cloning the collected trees, engineers will be able to replant these species in specified areas which will allow their growth as well as their cutting for the use of its wood. The engineers have successfully cloned over 30,000 species which have undergone treatment in order to grow a straight trunk for a better extraction of wood. From these 30,000 cloned trees, engineers will only replant those which show resistance to the mahogany plague. http://www.128canopy.com/cloned-trees-to-alleviate-deforestation/ [...]