Please Help Prevent the Poaching of Pernambuco

[Bill Merkel]

Re. how to prevent poaching, I keep waiting for someone to point out that, if enough more of it were planted (which is being done), after a while the increase would outweigh the loss.

I think it's slow growing, particular about its environment, and small.  As if nature has told it to go eff itself, really.  Maybe it's not so great.  Trust Mother Nature

[HoGo]

I think the main problem is that pernambuco won't grow anywhere. Most of its habitat is taken by humans. And reforesting places that reamined open after deforestation and exploited by agriculture is not simple and often original species won't grow there anymore or not in foreseeable future - we see that here in europe where some areas that had been used for sheep farming for hundreds of years created completely new biotops and after failed attempts foreign species of trees had to be used to grow forests back. Those trees can be later (80-100 years) replaced by the original once the soil rehabs.

[Violadamore]

10 hours ago, HoGo said:

I think the main problem is that pernambuco won't grow anywhere. Most of its habitat is taken by humans. And reforesting places that reamined open after deforestation and exploited by agriculture is not simple and often original species won't grow there anymore or not in foreseeable future - we see that here in europe where some areas that had been used for sheep farming for hundreds of years created completely new biotops and after failed attempts foreign species of trees had to be used to grow forests back. Those trees can be later (80-100 years) replaced by the original once the soil rehabs.

Introduce it to South Florida.  Everything foreign and tropical spreads like crazy down there.  Give it a few years, and you'll have impenetrable thickets (especially around Disney, everything loves Disney because they care for their landscaping so well) where you can watch introduced poisonous snakes hunt iguanas, and pythons hunting both of them.  

BTW, I've always opposed poaching wood.  You should air or kiln dry it instead.   

[Bill Yacey]

It only grows in a small area of brasil, in fact the province it grows in is named after it. It appears that it needs very specific conditions to grow.

Pau Brasil Range

[Violadamore]

1 hour ago, Bill Yacey said:

It only grows in a small area of brasil, in fact the province it grows in is named after it. It appears that it needs very specific conditions to grow.

Pau Brasil Range

Judging by that, it might cultivate well in the Caribbean area.  It seems to need proximity to a coast between 23 and 6 degrees from the Equator.

[uncle duke]

Seems the tree needs 2000 mm of rain per year to grow -  that is close to double what S. Florida/Keys get per year.

[David Burgess]

1 hour ago, Violadamore said:

Judging by that, it might cultivate well in the Caribbean area.  It seems to need proximity to a coast between 23 and 6 degrees from the Equator.

Uh oh, that might re-establish the African slave trade. Oh wait, there are plenty of descendants of African slaves there already. Same with Brazil.

Hawaii might be a candidate. We can put fiddle-guy Jackson Maberry in charge of it, since he already has a residence there.

[MeyerFittings]

There is a plantation on the East side of Kuai that is, and has been, growing caesalpinia echinata for quite some time. I think it is called Na 'Aina Kai Botanical Garden.

 

[Bill Yacey]

6 hours ago, Violadamore said:

Judging by that, it might cultivate well in the Caribbean area.  It seems to need proximity to a coast between 23 and 6 degrees from the Equator.

From what I can gather, it needs to grow within a nurse crop of other trees to provide ideal growing conditions too. They cite that even within Brasil, the trees don't do well in the other regions.