Lu Guang’s blood wood: photographs of exploited African forest – The Eye of Photography

The rise of China has been accompanied by a voracious demand for raw materials such as oil and minerals, as it has brought widespread prosperity to the Chinese mass, a boom in consumption and in real estate development has led to new demand in home decoration and furniture. Less well known are the unsuspected consequences on the world’s ecosystem such as rhino horn and elephant ivory, even less is the critical threat on the sustainability of Africa’s tropical forest.