Funnily enough, a lot of the illegally harvested wood comes with great provenance information, if not official documentation. Unscrupulous manufacturers need to

Funnily enough, a lot of the illegally harvested wood comes with great provenance information, if not official documentation. Unscrupulous manufacturers need to know where to reliably source it and corruption where these trees are harvested is rampant so they don't even need to hide it. I assume so because there's a significant price difference between those operations and legitimate sustainable ones when provenance is available. However I think the exotic wood that makes it to the average lumberyard comes almost exclusively from opportunistic small logging operations that stumble upon on groves of trees and cut them down and ship them out as fast as possible, oftentimes under the noses of the land owners (the state, natural reserves, etc.).