ANTALAHA, Madagascar — The piles of rosewood logs outside Chantal Rasoanirina’s office filled more than half the courtyard to head height.

Chris Martin, Chairman and CEO of the C.F. Martin Guitar Co. in Nazareth, Pa., says that when he first heard guitars built from Madagascar rosewood, he dreamed it might be the long-sought ...

Rosewood grows slowly, taking more than 100 years to reach maturity. Logging this rare species is unsustainable. The exploitation of rosewood was banned in 2000 in Madagascar.

Rosewood stockpile in Antalaha port Madagascar in mid-May 2014 Under a World Bank program, the rosewood stocks were supposed to be inventoried to prevent just this sort of leakage. But that ...

Madagascar's Pierced Heart. The island’s geographic isolation created a wonderland of biological richness. Now population pressures and political turmoil speed the plunder of its rosewood ...

Chinese demand for rosewood—trafficked more than ivory, rhino horn, and pangolin scales—is fueling a crisis in Guatemala's forests. Durable, fragrant rosewood, used to make furniture and ...

Brazilian rosewood gained CITES protection in 1992, which is believed to have put more pressure on the forests in Madagascar. The slow-growing rosewood trees are found in relative isolation from ...

Research happening in Zurich and Madagascar is more specific to rosewood. Some of the work is dedicated to low-cost, traditional wood anatomy studies using microscopy.

For Zhu, prohibiting trade in rosewood while such huge demand exists actually serves to increase prices while driving the trade underground. Rosewood from Madagascar, she notes, “was worth next to ...

Noting a lack of progress in the implementation of the Madagascar Precious Timber Action Plan, the CITES Secretariat therefore proposed to maintain the recommendation to the member countries of the ...