CITES rejects another Madagascar plan to sell illegal rosewood stockpiles

Mongabay
Oct 24, 2018, 12:49 pm230 pts
A single log of rosewood from Madagascar can sell for thousands of dollars in China, and a bed made from the wood can cost as much as $1 million. But an embargo on international rosewood sales under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) makes the sale of…

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