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Rosewood & timber in the illegal wildlife trade

WildTrace has recorded 48 cases involving rosewood & timber from public reports between 2024-01-15 and 2026-09-23, in 10 countries. 3 of them rest on an official or validated source.

CITES appendix II. Taxa covered: Dalbergia spp., Pterocarpus erinaceus. Counts show where this trade is reported, not where it happens: reporting is uneven between countries and languages, and cases whose reports name no place are counted but cannot be mapped.

Where rosewood & timber cases are reported

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Where seized rosewood & timber came from, and where it was seized

529 shipments of rosewood & timber seized or confiscated were reported to CITES since 2015 (CITES Trade Database, source code I). Counts are shipment records, not quantities, and some countries report far more completely than others.

Taken from

  • Vietnam 150
  • India 144
  • Nicaragua 43
  • Burkina Faso 23
  • Brazil 21
  • Indonesia 15
  • United Arab Emirates 12
  • Belize 11

Seized in

  • United States 383
  • China 27
  • Switzerland 20
  • Angola 12
  • Japan 11
  • South Korea 11
  • Indonesia 7
  • Canada 7

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