FIGURE 10.8 Trade in tropical timber. Most of the consumer demand for tropical timber is in North America, Europe, and Japan. Increasingly large quantities of tropical timber sold to China are made into furniture, plywood, and flooring, which are then sold to consumers in the developed world. The trade shown on the map is mostly legal, but much of the wood that fuels China’s wood-processing industries is harvested illegally in Southeast Asia. 10.8a Courtesy Auscape/UIG/Getty Images, 10.8b Courtesy Chicago Tribune/McClatchy-Tribune/Getty Images