IPCI

FRANCE

EUROPE

International Pernambuco Conservation Initiative

THE PERNAMBUCO

ITS HABITAT

EMBLEMATIC TREE

The Pernambuco wood (Pau Brasilia Echinata) is a Brazilian wood that has been essential for bow making in the past 270 years. However, this wood, which is emblematic of Brazil as its national tree, has become increasingly rare and endangered.

The Mata Atlantica, its natural habitat along the coast of Brazil, has been reduced to only 5 to 7% of its original size due to massive deforestation for tropical wood exploitation, as well as agricultural, residential, and industrial expansion.

L'ASSOCIATION  IPCI FRANCE EUROPE
3 rue Truffaux 75017 PARIS
N° d'association : W751269309

ITS PROPERTIES

The technical and acoustic properties of Pernambuco wood are inseparable from the sound of instruments from 1750 to the present day.