In addition to WWF’s more traditional work on wildlife species, we are also backing critical motions to regulate international trade in a number of tree species – Rosewood, Kosso and Bubinga – to ...

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 ...

Laws and policies against illicit logging exist, but sustainable solutions should also consider the many benefits of ...

Mozambique’s rosewood is protected under an international treaty, meaning only very limited trade that does not threaten the species is allowed. However, a four-year undercover investigation by ...

Large loads of timber of different species, notably rosewood, are moved across the border at night; illegal logging is carried out in numerous forest communities in Ghana’s Oti region.