At UBC's Centre for Advanced Wood Processing, PhD student Joseph Doh Wook Kim plays a flawless riff on an electric guitar made with plantation-grown Fijian mahogany. The sound is deep, warm and perfect - just like a guitar made with native South American mahogany, the industry benchmark for guitar tonewoods.
The difference is that while native mahogany is regulated under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to protect endangered forests, the Fijian variety is sustainably harvested, legally traded and grown in plantations.
