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 ...

KUALA LUMPUR: The Merbau, known for its hardwood, is now Malaysia’s national tree, announced the Prime Minister. “The Merbau tree has been chosen as our national tree. With its hardy nature, I believe ...

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 ...

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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 ...