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 ...

Consumers in the United States are being mislead as to the origin of merbau hardwood flooring being sold by Home Depot and Lowe’s. According to a new report published by the Environmental ...

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 activists said yesterday they had exposed the world's biggest smuggling racket involving a single type of wood, with huge shipments of logs going from Indonesia's remote Papua province ...

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 ...

The environmental protection group Greenpeace says China's illegal trade in the endangered merbau tree is destroying ancient forests and speeding up the tree's extinction. The wood is smuggled from ...

“This is a highly prized species for luxury goods and the market demand in China as well as in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific is driving merbau to extinction,” said Tamara Stark, Greenpeace ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Some of the state’s most revered heritage icons are being repaired with exotic hardwood as the native logging ban constrains supplies of ...

Nearly four thousand Indigenous peoples from the Knasaimos tribe have received legal recognition of their rights over their ancestral lands. Located in the South Sorong Regency of West Papua, these ...