Owning rosewood furniture has long conveyed a certain status, if not always a desirable one. During the Cultural Revolution that began in , it sent exactly the wrong message.
After the Cultural Revolution, one would not be surprised to find an antique Ming Dynasty table — a wanton bourgeois relic according to Mao — serving as a chopping block for a rural farmer. Wealthy parents buy rosewood furniture as an investment or a gift to pass down to their children, or simply for the same reason they might want a flashy car or a fancy handbag.
Workers assemble rosewood furniture at a Xianyou factory. However, the culture of conspicuous consumption may finally be changing. Some timber dealers say that demand has declined in the last two to three years. This might be due to the precedent set by President Xi Jinping, who has tried to clean up the Communist Party and discourage the lavish gift-giving that party officials were once known for.
In fact, Chinese attitudes toward timber conservation seem almost nonexistent. Far-off trees are hard to care about in a country with treasured panda bears that are endangered and a slew of domestic environmental issues, including severe air and water pollution.
Moreover, there are few institutions that draw attention to the illegal timber issue. It is not well covered by the media, and there are no Chinese environmental groups dedicated to taking on the illegal timber trade. The Chinese government, when it decides to do something, is incredibly capable of doing it. China has taken a few steps to improve its import monitoring system. The customs lab in Zhangjiagang checks some logs entering the port. Larger state labs, such as the Chinese Academy of Forestry lab in Beijing, have begun trying to use DNA analysis , stable isotope identification, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.
But these techniques are still being developed and are currently too expensive for widespread adoption. Plus, as conservationists point out, new monitoring techniques will not be sufficient to solve the trafficking problem. Owning rosewood furniture has long conveyed a status of wealth in China. Lacey Act , that forces companies to take responsibility for the sourcing of their wildlife-based products.
They are also hoping that China will assign timber trade regulation and enforcement to a well-funded agency or ministry; currently, the task is assigned to low-level bureaucrats in the State Forestry Administration. Madagascar is in the process of installing its own new set of bureaucrats. There are winners and losers. When we have political problems, the Chinese are happy — they can take what they want. They take advantage of poor governance because it means more profits.
If they really want to help conserve wildlife, they have to stop. Reporting for this story was supported by a grant from the Society of Environmental Journalists.
By Zach St. By Daniel Grossman. Search Search. Sandy Ong Fampotakely, a sandy village in northeast Madagascar, at first seems an unlikely destination for migrants. The Madagascar government seems to have monopolized the rosewood trade and made it less visible.
Wealthy Chinese parents buy rosewood furniture as an investment or a gift to pass down to their children. China has taken steps to improve its import monitoring system. The customs lab in Zhangjiagang now checks some logs entering the port. Felling is now strictly controlled by the Indian government and the logs are only sold to government approved buyers at auction. Export is also strictly controlled by the Indian Government to reinforce the value and precious nature of this timber so that it will remain available long into the future.
Available sizes of current imports are therefore rather small. We were recently able to buy some old stock Indian rosewood that had been held by a Japanese importer since before export restrictions began.
This was reimported to Europe via Germany and now represents the finest Indian rosewood boards and the best available sizes in the UK. A must for all Indian Rosewood afficionados and timber museum curators. The warehouse is now open to visitors. We take the view that it is still appropriate to ask that masks be worn in the warehouse and that customers use the hand cleanser on entry.
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