With the Tamil Nadu Rosewood Trees (Conservation) Act quietly lapsing in Feb 2025 after three decades, and no new safeguards ...

There are many types of rosewood trees, but Dalbergia cochinchinensis, or Siamese rosewood, native to Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand, is the most prized by China's burgeoning middle classes.

Tamil Nadu government decides not to renew Rosewood Trees Act, citing benefits to farmers and alignment with green cover ...

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 ...

A Life-or-Death Hunt for Tree Thieves. Rangers are fighting against long odds to protect Thailand's last stands of prized Siamese rosewood.

Highly valuable Asian rosewood trees face a host of threats to survival Endangered rosewood species native to Southeast Asia face significant threats from logging, fire, trafficking and climate ...

The evergreen rosewood tree (dalbargia sissoo or sheesham), once a major source of fuel wood and later in high demand in the furniture industry, is now dying a slow and mysterious death across the ...