I pledge not to buy any products made from tropical hardwoods.
A community there receives about $13 for a cubic meter of tropical hardwood.
Some wood products available in Cameroon may be made from endangered tropical hardwood.
They are small wooden sticks made of tropical hardwood.
The price for the wood from a single tree of tropical hardwood has jumped from about $225 in the mid-1980's to nearly $600 today.
Eighty per cent of tropical hardwoods are made into furniture.
Some of the tropical hardwoods last 40 or 50 years, but those aren't the companies we want to deal with.
A few of the tropical hardwoods, like the rosewoods, may have quite spectacular figure.
Not sufficient research is being done on the growing of tropical hardwoods.
In the absence of spices and gold, tropical hardwood was the only thing that the first Portuguese considered worth taking home.