From The New York Times:
The jungles of Ta Phraya National Park in southeastern Thailand, part of a Unesco world heritage site, are home to sun bears, crocodiles and elephants. But these poachers are not after animal prey. They are hunting for the perfect tree, and when they do find it, they work quickly, chopping it down and slicing it into wooden planks in a matter of hours.
Their target, rosewood, can sell for tens of thousands in China and has earned an infamous nickname: “bloodwood.”