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The fight to protect the world’s most trafficked wild commodity
Chinese demand for rosewood—trafficked more than ivory, rhino horn, and pangolin scales—is fueling a crisis in Guatemala's forests.
Jose Baudillo leans over a thin rosewood log lying on a bed of dark red wood chips and wraps a tape measure around one end.
- Eileen Guo
- National Geographic
“This one is young”—less than 16 inches, he says to his boss, Eddy Ottoniel Palencia.
The log had been cut illegally in …