Behind the Veneer - How Indonesia’s Last Rainforests are being Felled for Flooring

Autoren Wadley, Jago; Shah, Pallavi; Lawson, Sam
Titel Behind the Veneer - How Indonesia’s Last Rainforests are being Felled for Flooring
Verlag EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency) & Telapak Indonesia
Ort London, Washington D.C. & Bogor
Jahr 2006
ISBN 0-9540768-2-4
Seiten 13
Kategorie Forstwirtschaft in den Tropen (FT)
Signatur 45
Sprache en
Inhalt Merbau, a highly valuable hardwood, is being ruthlessly targeted by illegal logging syndicates in Indonesian Papua to supply the booming demand for tropical hardwood flooring. This report provides case studies on some of the biggest players and tracks the trade in merbau from Papua, via the factories processing merbau for the wolds biggest flooring brands, to the shelves of the leading retailers of Europe and North America
ID 2168
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