Spotted a nice block where the specie happens to be listed on the Cites Appendix #2 endangered list. Is it just a bad idea to send overseas, or more of a serious matter?
What species? It comes down to individual research and how it was obtained. Windfall, Deadfall etc are always fair game, if customs is fine with it, It is probably ok. Spydro may be the best to answer this...
Species listed in CITES Appendix II can have many pitfalls if you live in any of the 175 countries that are members of that treaty (esp the US). In the case of timber woods, it can concern both raw wood and items made from the woods. App. II basically means the sustainability of the wood is highly in question in its entire range, or sometimes in certain countries where its native habitat is. Honduran means little except that Dalbergia stevensonii does come mainly from Belize (Britsh Honduras), but also Guatemala and Mexico. Over harvesting in Belize stopped all harvesting there some years ago and is what got it elevated from App. III to App. II.
Shipping it in/out of countries legally can be a nightmare if you can't obtain any permits needed while studies are being done (that usually lean to it being fully protected under CITES Appendix I eventually).
The fly in the tea cup is customs, it doesn't matter which country. Custom agents worldwide seldom if ever know the current regs for every species, so each may play by their own rules. For example, I can't begin to count the times I got into down and dirty wars with US Customs agents the 5+ decades I raised and studied the life histories of Lepidoptera... via letters, phone calls and in person when I knew the exact current regs on Lepidoptera and they didn't. I don't back down to anyone, and it got really ugly sometimes when they threatened me or tried to take them away from me. I knew the current regs, had the required permits and the muscle to back it up, so I won every war.
Keep this in mind. Even if you get the wood out of your country, past NZ Customs so V can make the mod... will it get back out of NZ and back into your country? Maybe if you don't declare species and can do so legally or get away with it if not. Most customs agents also can't identify to species level. If it doesn't get past them in the least you'll loose the wood/mod, at worst they could try to prosecute you. Saving the planet and it's species is a very big deal worldwide now days, so CITES, The Lacey Act, etc are not something to mess around with unless you know the exact current regs.
Anyway, since many of you are US citizens... US Fish & Wildlife Law Enforcement was pretty easy to deal with decades ago, and it didn't cost a dime for their assistance or permits. But APHIS took the lead and is just the opposite. They even stopped almost all native species of Lepidoptera in the US from crossing state lines that never used to be illegal. So some required reading I would suggest is the current regs on timber woods that I am not completely up to speed on now days. Pay particular attention to taxonomic assigned names to species level, any listing of them that regulates them, requirements to export and export if legal, required permits, fees.
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/plants/manuals/ports/downloads/cites.pdf
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