Azadirachta is a genus of two species of trees in the mahogany (Meliaceae) family.

In the past, tropical hardwoods were easily available, but the supply of some species, such as Burma teak, and mahogany, is now becoming scarce due to over exploitation.

Today's biggest threat to the Ashaninka people and to Benki comes from illegal logging the people who come into the beautiful forest and cut down ancient mahogany trees, float them down the river to world markets.

Both Swietenia mahagoni , and Swietenia macrophylla were introduced into several Asian countries at the time of the restrictions imposed on American mahogany in the late 1990s and both are now successfully grown and harvested in plantations in those countries.