PC20 Inf. 7 Annex 20 CURRENT PRACTICES ON NDF • Vietnam has experience to conduct NDF for several AGARWOOD AND plant species: NDF has been conducted base on criterias: CITES IMPLEMENTATION – Population situation; – Distribution IN VIETNAM – Population trend –Harvest – Other biological and ecological factors – trade information • The database is gathered from different sources (reports, independent research, field survey..) • NDF = science-based risk assessment Agar wood Plantation Management of Agar wood in plantion • There are four species of agar wood • Agar wood began to plant two recorded natural distribution in decades ago by the farmers, Vietnam, include: where they collect the seeds in – Aquilaria crassna the forest or household forest garden. – Aquilaria baillonnii – Aqquilaria banaensis • Since now, the tissue culture methodology has been used to – Aquilaria rugosa create more seeding. • Aquilaria crassna is big timber tree • Vietnam has a system of ranger and contain high volume of oil, agar agencies from central to local, wood has been grow popular in where the private company or Vietnam household has to register their • Estimated in 2009, there are 12,000 agar wood plantation ha platation of Aquilaria crasna from 1- • Any cases of exportation has to 15 year old. The density is 500-500 be verify by local rangers tree/ha Import-export of Agar wood Current challenges on agar wood plantation • Only artificial products of • Enforcement staffs lack of agar wood legally export capacity to identify agar wood and permitted by CITES from artificial or from nature. MA. The specimen • Lack of a standard process to include: create agar wood in – Seeding, wood chip, oil, plantation tim ber log, incense… • AlA lo t o fhf house h old ldh has • Import country include: several trees in home garden, then they lack of knowledge – Japan, Taiwan, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, to fulfill the administration UEA…. procedures • The exportation of any artificial agar wood specimen require to fulfill all CITES document event a ml of oil or an inscence PC20 Inf. 7, Annex 20 – p. 1 1 PC20 Inf. 7 Annex 20 Recommendation - An ID sheet to identified different form of agar wood and nature agar wood need to develop - Annotation of Agar wood in CITES A ppendi x need t o revise. The population Aquilary crassana in Vietnam, Thailand can be exclude of CITES Appendix II? - Some exemption for agar wood should be applied for a certain amount of specimen from plantation forest PC20 Inf. 7, Annex 20 – p. 2 2.