Logging workers in the virgin forests of the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Their average age is below 20, and they specialize in felling African “bloodwood”.
Pterocarpus tinctorius, or Mukula tree, is a rare and slow-growing hardwood unique to southern and central Africa. Mukula has been illegally logged and traded from Zambia and DRC to China for the last decade, feeding the increasing demand of "rosewood" in the Chinese market.