SUPPOSE you want to buy a table. But you care about orang-utans, indigenous peoples and carbon emissions, so you don’t want it made with illegally harvested logs. Or suppose you run a chain of ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- -- JAKARTA, Indonesia -- A variety of hardwood threatened in Southeast Asia is showing up in flooring in the United States, where manufacturers, distributors and retailers are ...

Singapore, 17th November 2008—Merbau, a tropical hardwood whose deep red-brown colour makes it popular for interior finishing, paneling, strip and parquet flooring, furniture, veneer, decorative and ...

China is at the heart of a trade that is pushing some tropical trees towards extinction, environmental groups say. One such is the tropical merbau tree, says Greenpeace. Merbau trees that are mostly ...

Environmental group Greenpeace said on Tuesday China should take responsibility for illegal hardwood logging in Southeast Asia which supplied the raw materials for Chinese exports to the West.

Timber barons are illegally exploiting Indonesia’s increasingly threatened lowland rainforests on the island of New Guinea for merbau wood, found an undercover investigation conducted by the ...

Europe’s leading flooring manufacturers are covering up the illegal source of some their specialist wood products, according to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), published ...