The rapid development of China’s rosewood industry has had a detrimental effect on global rosewood populations. This has in turn been exacerbated by a lack of general planning for the sustainability ...

Surging Chinese demand for rosewood used in 'hongmu' furniture is ruining forests across southern Asia, writes Zuzana Burivalova. As demand surges, China must impose stricter regulations and harsher ...

Her book will no doubt be controversial, but it is an important and necessary contribution. China’s cultural renaissance and the rosewood trade Rosewood, known as hongmu in China, refers to 33 species ...

A cursory Google search for "rosewood furniture China" brings up plenty of sites selling the luxury item, but most buyers are likely unaware that their treasured table or chair could be the ...

In TRAFFIC’s Rosewood Products and Consumption research, 32% of 3,160 survey respondents indicated they had previously purchased rosewood products. This relatively large proportion reflects the ...

About six million rosewood trees have been cut down in Ghana for illegal export to China since 2012, an environmental group says. The rare species, which takes 100 years to grow, is mostly used to ...

Military coups and a jihadist insurgency in Mali have fuelled the illegal logging and export of rosewood timber, according to the non-profit Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). That is ...

Her book will no doubt be controversial, but it is an important and necessary contribution. Rosewood, known as hongmu in China, refers to 33 species of highly expensive tropical hardwoods, many of ...