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                Train YOUR`S style  at Montreux from 7 july to 14 july Enjoy luxury health holidays and choose between intensive structured bootcamps or the inspiring body&wellness retreats. Our innovative programme delivers highly successful results and, after just 7 days, we promise you will return home looking and feeling amazing. It is the ideal combination of a professional sports programme and a gourmet detox diet. Each week delivers guests the benefits of weight loss (if wanted), improved fitness and flexibility and a natural energy high which makes it easy for everyone to continue the healthy programme when they get home. Body&Wellness Rediscover yourself Harmony and tranquillity form the basis of what we offer at DOWNHILL retreats – enduring health is the result. Replenish your energy levels: experience pioneering treatments and therapies with our team of trainers and therapists. In addition, exclusively selected ...

Chinese Demand for Bloodwood Cuts Into Congo’s Ecosystem. Corruption and lack of oversight allow illegally logged timber to be traded from Africa’s heartland to the coast of China. The Mukula tree, know as bloodwood is disapearring due to overharversting in east and south africa. There are no official statistics for how many Mukula trees have been felled, but demand for the wood is so high that Zambia has banned exports of the wood. In China, a tonne of Mukula sells for between 17,000 and 22,000 renminbi per tonne ($2,500 and $3,200 a tonne). Greenpeace estimates that as much as 15,000 tonnes of the wood are sold each month from just four of the biggest Mukula markets in Zhang Jiagang in eastern China, home to the country’s largest Mukula processing industry. China’s rosewood furniture market was worth at least 100 billion renminbi ($15 billion) in 2012. Local authorities are making some efforts to curb the trade. The DRC arrested 14 Chinese nationals in May on suspi...