Pok Ku is the fourth generation in his family to make traditional Chinese coffins. Pok Ku said he uses only high-quality ...

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 ...

The prized tropical hardwood merbau was once found in abundance from east Africa to Tahiti. It is beloved of homebuilders and furniture stores around the Asia-Pacific region, but, thanks to decades of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...