The great Rosewood rush of 2013 should have mostly decimated Rosewood stocks. After all those trees were felled and shipped off to China there probably wasn't much rosewood left to root out anyway… And then Belize signed unto a CITES convention which made Rosewood export illegal. That should have been the end of an ugly episode in logging, but apparently not. The highly prised hardwood continues to appear. The forestry Department says their officers found 30,000 board feet in the form of flitches at a wood works factory in Benque Viejo Town. The wood had no official marking and documentation and was illegally harvested. Forestry confiscated it.

The owner of the wood workshop will also face charges.