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 ...

Timber can be a beautiful, living building material. Species like spotted gum, teak, silky oak and merbau each have their own unique strength, grain, colour and scent, and are prized for things like ...

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 have exposed what they claim to be the world's biggest timber smuggling racket, the supply of the luxurious dark hardwood, merbau, from Indonesia's eastern Papua province to ...

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 ...

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 ...