Political and social chaos and a lack of international protections have put several species of rosewood trees in Madagascar in danger of becoming extinct from illegal logging, according to new ...

The rangers were slogging their way up the mud-slick mountainside in Thap Lan National Park when a hand signal brought our patrol to a sharp halt. A scout up ahead had found a letter “K” carved into ...

Plundering the remaining rosewood forests could push the trees into extinction and further endanger crucial habitat for native creatures, like the lemur Three years ago, the allure of the lemur ...

The photos were dark and grainy, but Kasidis Chanpradub, a senior officer with an elite paramilitary unit of the Thai park rangers, knew what he was looking at. "They are poachers, for sure," he told ...

Endangered rosewood species native to Southeast Asia face significant threats from logging, fire, trafficking and climate change. A new study maps the extent of the threats in the six-country Greater ...

Reading the media, many people would conclude that the world’s most important wildlife trade meeting only has a couple of iconic species on its agenda, particularly elephants, writers Vanessa Dick, ...

MR DENG’S ramshackle lumber yard on the edge of town offers a wide array of wood for sale. One species, however, is conspicuously absent. Asked whether he has any Siamese rosewood, he sends a lad off ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Political and social chaos and a lack of international protections have put several species of rosewood trees in Madagascar in danger of becoming extinct from illegal logging, ...