In 2018, the CITES Standing Committee recommended a halt to trade in Nigerian "kosso", a tree known in the lumber trade as "African rosewood" and ... which has tiger farms of endangered tigers ...

In 2017 the West African rosewood tree was given international protection. It was listed under Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ...

Ghana and other West African countries are the victims of China's insatiable and unchecked demand for rosewood, the EIA said. Africa Live: More on this and other stories Madagascar's forests ...