The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia - BBC Africa Eye documentary

BBC Can you activate the subtitles for the inclusion of people with hearing problems and for the automatic translation option for the subtitles? Tanks

The government could be doing something about it. They are losing a precious resource that would be worth protecting with soldiers and guns. They could be planting more too, instead of watching them all leave. It's the leaders' own fault.
The man justified his rape of the forest by saying he would have to work long and hard for less. As if he never heard that illegal things are often linked to high prices. With his logic, we would all run brothels and casinos and sell drugs in them to boot.

It is a shame! I have been trying to buy rosewood seeds but cannot buy so far!

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

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

Africans, we are so stupid; we always exploit our nature resources, soon we will have nothing left and end up back in poverty

Umaru Fofanah, the trees of sierra leone have cried for help, but it's not worth reporting right?

I am very unhappy after what my fellow Gambians are doing including the Governments of the two countries 😭😭😭. The Senegalese have to stop destroying their property to the Chinese

Barrow has failed us

The Chinese may soon destroy Africa's economy of this continues and most importantly our environmental stuffs

Look at the shea butter tree in UG. Same fate.

China also make animals extinct they think it's medicine to eat rhino horne and so on but they are stupid

What a shame

is a pity foreigner are coming to steal from African so the can be richer and Africa been poorer but check yourself before you reck yourself what i want to say is the more innocent are crying and dying you shall never know peace in your countries include those support you check this out bad waethwe and floods and sickness will always befall in your countries and more poor people shall be your reward you rip what you sow beminefull is a most just watch it as long as you heartless people don stop roping Africa !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Africa, at least many portions of it just seem lawless to me. Who is gonna tell these people they can't cut down the trees? Ya'll need a government.

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Beautiful tree

China is always in the middle of something illegal

So just hold a few crates and let thousands pass threw

The higher ups are getting a cut of the money and maybe the kings of a village also but they all know and are benefiting from the illegal trade

And why aren't deaf people allowed to know about these things ? Really, why no auto subtitles ?

We are facing the same problem in South Africa 🇿🇦, in Limpompo and its our brothers from Zimbabwe who are destroying our trees especially mobane to sell fire wood

China once again wanting rare species purely for status. Shameful!

Cameraman is no good why is he running ! A good cameraman catches every moment and this is supposed to be a documentary kmt.