Barbados’ environment minister, Trevor Prescod, also planted a mahogany tree. Despite the challenges, he hopes to double the one million tree target. Research shows that a major global tree ...

dense with mahogany trees, cabbage palms, citronella and bearded fig trees. Our tour guide told us that it was from these humble trees that Barbados’s name was derived; the Portuguese sighted ...

The Mahogany trees Cedro and Caoba (Cedrela odorata and Swietenia macrophylla) affect the right-forewing of their unwelcome guest, the Mahogany shoot borer, which could later influence its flying ...

Mahogany is not the only valuable tree in the rainforest, of course. A wide variety of equally valuable rosewoods grow throughout the world’s tropical regions, for example, and most are endangered.

Hypsipyla grandella, or the mahogany shoot borer, has a heavy impact on Cedro and Caoba trees, restricting their plantations. But at the same time, these trees affect the size and form of the pest ...