The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia – BBC Africa Eye documentary
The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia – BBC Africa Eye documentary
The rosewood tree is one of the most trafficked species on earth.
When it’s cut it bleeds a blood-red sap.
Having exhausted stocks elsewhere, Chinese traders have turned to West Africa, especially southern Senegal, where trees are cut down and smuggled into neighbouring Gambia and then all the way onto China.
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this is really so unacceptable billahi 🥲🥲
U CANNOT DIVIDE SENEGAMBIA
Sickening !!
The tree that bleed how rosewood is smuggled from senegal into gambia
This breaks my heart into a thousand pieces and five hundred more😢. Why are we Africans like this?
Whaha that what Africans they love Chinese that Chinese is a friend of Africa haha infact the Chinese are there to take everything they are more worst than the westerner hahaha did then china will give u food if famine strikes hahaha
"The separatist mouvement for democratic forces of Casamance has been fighting has been fighting for independence from Senegal since 1982."
With such a large scale tree cutting that leads to deforestation and loss of habitat for animal species, which can harm ecosystems, by the time they gain their independence, they'll inherit a useless terrain with little vegetation that'll also affect the traditional way of life for people living in such forests.
They need to bring that president and whoever's involved up on charges. Or another president need to go to war and take over that part of the country before they lose it.
AFRICA IS SOOO RICH BUT WITH THESE FUCKED UP LEADERS WE WON'T GO ANYWHERE IN THIS LIFE
LOOK UP: CHINA HUNT FOR GHANA RED GOLD.
That Vegan teacher 🍎 has been Quiet ever since this dropped
The Chinese not only plunder the oceans resources now they are in Africa after plundering rare trees around other parts of the world!
These people need stopping
What they should remember is that the more illegal it becomes the more expensive and desirable too,
I suggest trying to re forrest as much as possible
But, it's not a Dalbergia (true rosewood) species. I'm sure it is endangered, exploited and certainly valuable.
Adam borrow waist it he should be removed out of power
China is doing all these things
Obviously just trying the smugglers isn’t working, so why not go directly to the buyers in China and other countries. Plus other tv stations around the world
I have this trees on my land. And they are staying put
BBC I love this documentary however you need to make a subtitle bigger.speaker , thank you
And they name the evil country behind it #China.
This tree isn’t necessarily a rosewood. All true rosewoods are in the dalbergia genus and as seen in the video, this is not. Still interesting though.
It appears that the plunder of Africa by these unscrupulous elements is no where near the end. They capitalise on the weakness of the African people; greed fueled by abject poverty caused by reckless and corrupt African leaders and governments! Ironically, these logs will be converted into luxury furniture and shipped right back to Africa for Africans to buy! When you think you have seen or heard enough, something else pops up. Thank you BBC for spotlighting this menace.
The logs dont sell for thousands of dollars. The furniture created does. Without the craftmenship, a log is still a log. That's kind of exaggerating the price of the log in itself.
I've actually seen a tree bleeding before, one time in school when I was just grade 1, me and my classmate played with a tree and when she touched that red thing from the tree, she got a wound from where she touched it and I was confused what that tree was or what happened
Unemployment is about to destroy Africa beauty 😱😱😭😭😭😭😭
As an environmentalist, it really pains me to watch this video. The. Senegalese and Gambian government must go after these culprits. When those countries become desert, they will have no one but themselves. The Chinese will be long gone by then