Gibson Guitar to pay $300,000 for violating Lacey Act with illegal timber imports from Madagascar
Published on: Sunday 05 August 2012
Recent rosewood and ebony logging has been associated with a rise in commercial bushmeat poaching of threatened lemurs in Madagascar. Gibson Guitars has now admitted to knowingly importing ‘gray-market’ timber from Madagascar, but under a settlement reached with the Department of Justice, the guitar-maker has avoided criminal charges. Gibson Guitar Company has avoided criminal prosecution […]
