Justino Sa is a government lawyer and environmental defender working to combat the devastation caused by the rosewood trade in Guinea-Bissau. In 2014, West Africa suffered from an explosion in logging due to the lucrative trade in rosewood. Chinese imports of West African rosewood, Pterocarpus erinaceus, increased from US$12,000 to over US$180 million in just five years. In the rural areas of West Africa, where the ongoing rosewood trade has been heaviest, more than 90% of the population depends on farming for survival. Justino believes it’s an environmental crime to cut trees in such an irresponsible manner, without respecting the rules, that it damages the country and the generations to come. For his work, he reported receiving continuous and numerous threats.