ROSEWOOD: ENDANGERED SPECIES CONSERVATION AND THE RISE OF GLOBAL CHINA

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2021, 3:30 PM (PDT)

Presented by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies.

Rosewood is the world’s most trafficked endangered species by value, and fuels a $26 billion market for classically styled furniture in China. International conservation efforts have banned its trade, but this has caused social and ecological damage in the process. Annah Zhu, assistant professor of environmental globalization at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, will dissect this Western-led conservation effort, and offer a glimpse of what environmentalism and biodiversity protection might look like in a world no longer ruled by the West.

This event will take place in UCSB’s Robertson Gymnasium 1000A.