A very interesting book, which I learnt a lot from. I had no idea that rosewood was so important.  More to the point, I did not realise how poorly implemented bans on trade in endangered can lead to counterproductive effects (scarcity can make the resource more valuable and fines can be just seen as taxation). The Chinese understanding of conservation (harmony between species, which can include production) was also something new for me, which I'm still getting my head around. The concept of an 'inverted commons' where resources belong to the entire globe, not the people who rely on them most, was also thought-provoking.