There's no shortage of "exotics" over here, have you seen my woodpiles and lolly-shop...?
In all seriousness, many of the forest woods exported all over the world does come from illegal logging from 3rd world countries and from very "shaded" governments, however, extremely difficult to control due to high-level financial interests from "shady" operators/exporters/importers but in recent years things start to tighten considerably, corvid19 has closed borders, closed/stopped movement of logs and their export/import, my hope is that governments use this opportunity to put strict control on the problem from its base (forest).
Another interesting but certainly sad news I/we received quite recently about one of the oldest exotic wood business based not far from me (Adelaide) that close its doors for good last Wednesday after 80 years of business/service, some of the exotic woods I sold here by special request were from that place that was huge in size, the type that log the logs the size of tankers and process them all there, what a shame losing such place...!
Cheers
George