Logjam: Inside Madagascar’s illegal-rosewood stockpiles

Mongabay
Nov 8, 2017, 9:17 pm169 pts
ANTALAHA, Madagascar — The piles of rosewood logs outside Chantal Rasoanirina’s office filled more than half the courtyard to head height. Each log, wet and weathered, was marked with a faded bar code left by a team that came from the capital city of Antananarivo to audit the stockpile between October and…

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