With Southeast Asia's native stocks of slow-growing rosewood depleted, lumber suppliers turned their sights elsewhere -- especially to Madagascar, which has more species of rosewood than anywhere ...
Rosewood is a family of tropical tree species widely used for furniture in Asia and in particular China. Also called Hongmu or "red wood" this rare and valuable wood is prized for its colour and ...
About six million rosewood trees have been cut down in Ghana ... corrupt officials in Ghana for forging documents to allow the wood to leave the country. Ghana's information ministry has not ...