The environmental group's China office said foreign and local DIY operators were selling illegally imported timber from forests in Southeast Asia, Africa and Brazil, and providing consumers with no way of checking their origins. Greenpeace have called on China's large DIY retailers to adopt "responsible" timber-sourcing policies to allow the country's growing ranks of home renovators to buy legally imported wood. But China has dismissed the allegations and says countries such as the United...

Deltic Timber (DEL) - timber landholder that also markets lumber and is therefore exposed to housing market. timber, and contrary to the sky-is-falling proclamations of Europe, North America is facing a rapidly falling timber market. Or is it? The truth is that it's nearly impossible to get a read on what the global market really is, because there is no single market for Lumber; no globally recognized futures contract, etc. But folks looking to timber as the next global commodities boom...

In Charlton County, there is 463,700 acres of natural forest and commercial timberland comprising about 93 percent of its total land area, the data also showed. Tree farmers in both counties are racing to harvest marketable timber ahead of three fast-moving wildfires that had burned a total of 216,211 acres by Friday. As little as 15 percent of that timber may be salvaged, rangers and forestry industry experts have told the Times-Union. Tree farmers are racing to harvest marketable timber...

According to the Forestry Act, the detainees would either have to pay Nu 1,000 an acre of forest destroyed as fine or serve a five year prison term or more if they are convicted. Four fire cases were reported in Wangduephodrang this year alone, the last fire being the biggest so far. Meanwhile, forestry officials are assessing the damage caused to property and forest coverage. Wangdue fire: two farmers detained. The survey team also came across charred carcasses of wild boars, a snake and...

The industry group said that share of tropical hardwood imports in the U. In 2002, the average price for tropical woods was almost three times as high as the one for imported temperate woods. By 2006, tropical prices were only twice as high as temperate prices. Recommend this article? Comments? Digg this article . Hugg this article . Contact News options News index . RSS . Add to MyYahoo! Advertise on mongabay.com With tens of thousands of daily visitors, mongabay.com is one of the world's...