Lumberjacks in the virgin forests of southeast DRC. Their work includes felling the bloodwood trees and using their hacking knives to peel away the stiff bark to leave the red core.
They fell Pterocarpus tinctorius, or Mukula tree, 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.