Global Witness and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today called on French shipping company Delmas to cancel a shipment of hundreds of tonnes of rosewood from the port of Vohemar, in northeastern Madagascar.

    The Delmas-operated vessel Kiara arrived in Vohemar on March 11 and is currently being loaded with containers filled with rosewood. The groups accuse the company, a division of shipping group CMA-CGM, of facilitating the destruction of Madagascar's last remaining forests.