The rosewood tree is one of the most trafficked wild products on earth. When it is cut it bleeds a blood red sap. Having exhausted stocks elsewhere, Chinese traders have turned to West Africa to ...

The Rosewood tree is one of the most trafficked species on earth. When it's cut it bleeds a blood red sap. Having exhausted stocks elsewhere, Chinese traders have turned to West Africa.

Rosewood is a dense tree, and in order for it to be brought downstream to market, large swaths of more buoyant riverbed trees are chopped down and thatched together to make rafts for the valuable ...

image: The map shows the vulnerability levels of Dalbergia cultrata, a threatened rosewood tree, to over exploitation. view more . Credit: Gaisberger et al., 2022.