Conservationists have warned that with rates of illegal logging increasing by 850% in recent years, Thailand’s Siamese
rosewood trees could be extinct within a decade.Large trees in protected forests have become so scarce that their plunder
is more akin to wildlife poaching. Increasingly large groups of illegal loggers cross the Thai-Cambodian border with weapons
and are willing toengage in firefights in order to get the highly valuable “blood wood”.