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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The New Zealand Government is taking a stand against illegal logging by introducing a new requirement for retailers to clearly display whether they have information about the legality of their ...

Some of the state’s most revered heritage icons are being repaired with exotic hardwood as the native logging ban constrains supplies of WA-grown timber. The Heritage Council of WA has scrambled to ...