What's the difference between pianowood and rosewood?
Pianowood
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Rosewood
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(n.) A valuable cabinet wood of a dark red color, streaked and variegated with black, obtained from several tropical leguminous trees of the genera Dalbergia and Machaerium. The finest kind is from Brazil, and is said to be from the Dalbergia nigra.
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(1) They are training with Hasadin, a team of elite rangers formed in June 2015, whose mission is to stop the Siamese rosewood tree from being driven to extinction by poachers.
(2) Seven forest rangers died in 2015 in relation to violent Siamese rosewood crime, according to the Freeland Foundation , an organisation based in Bangkok working to improve ranger training in Thailand.
(3) Although rosewood is classified as an endangered species by the International Trade Convention, trade in that wood has risen dramatically, triggered by demand from well-off Chinese households for reproductions of Qing and Ming dynasty furniture.
(4) In September last year, 23 Cambodian would-be loggers fled their traffickers upon discovery that Siamese rosewood was their target, and handed themselves over to the Thai police, according to the Cambodia Daily .
(5) A recent global wildlife summit also introduced new protection for pangolins , the world’s most trafficked mammals, and rosewoods , the most trafficked wild product of all.
(6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A bed made from Siamese rosewood reportedly sold for US$1m in Shanghai in 2011.
(7) They sit nightly at the tables, flicking selfies at each other on digital currents, air kissing one another's bottle-bronzed cheeks, their Botoxed eyebrows feigning constant surprise, while picking irritably at platters of exquisitely carved Jamon Iberico, or Peking duck with skin like lacquered rosewood, or bits of sashimi cut just so.
(8) The lucrative trade saw $1.2bn worth of Siamese rosewood imported to China between 2000 and 2014, according to the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA).
(9) Occupational asthma due to exposure to exotic wood dust and to rosewood (Dalbergia family) has been reported earlier.
(10) 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.
(11) Delegates to the Cites meeting are expected to strengthen protection for multiple plant species, including Madagascan ebony and rosewood.
(12) The last big rosewood trees are in the deep forest, so the smugglers are moving deeper and deeper into Thailand ,” says Khajornsak Anantuk, a sergeant major with the Ta Phraya border police, who is helping to train the rangers.
(13) EIA reported a bed made from Siamese rosewood being sold for US$1m in Shanghai in 2011.
(14) Rosewood logs from trees likely several hundred years old.
(15) The cache belongs to a set of mysterious microfilm images, known as the Rosenholz (Rosewood) records, that contain 280,000 files giving basic information on employees of the foreign intelligence arm of the former GDR.
(16) In the war against rosewood poaching, rangers train in self defence, patrol, conducting raids, making arrests, weapons and explosives identification.
(17) Siamese rosewood was listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) in 2013 in an attempt to curb the decimation of south-east Asia’s remaining stocks.
(18) It is now sourced in Madagascar , Burma, Thailand , Vietnam and Belize , and rosewood imports to China rose from 66,000 cubic metres in 2005 to 565,000 cubic metres in 2011.
(19) The listing should have prohibited the international trade in logs, sawn timber and veneers, but an annotation allowing for the legal trade in “semi-finished” products of Siamese rosewood has provided a catastrophic loophole.
(20) Pao ferro (Machaerium scleroxylum), used as a rosewood substitute, is a strong sensitizer capable of causing acute outbreaks of allergic and irritant dermatitis in workers not previously exposed to it.