1.   At the beginning of the year, the Dutch government bowed to consumer pressure and banned all imports of tropical hardwood from countries which lack effective forestry management schemes.

2.   According to FoE, most of the tropical hardwood imported into the UK comes from unsustainable sources.

3.   He urged wealthy nations to plant tropical hardwoods in desert lands, thereby tripling the area under tropical timber within a century.

4.   As a result, many varieties of tropical hardwood are becoming endangered, like mahogany and teak.

5.   An area larger than all of Switzerland goes up in flames in the Amazon every year, and logging of tropical hardwoods continues apace in Africa and Asia.

6.   As pressure on land has increased in this agricultural country, loggers of tropical hardwoods have been moving steadily westward into this area.

7.   Farther south, water backed up on the north side of Tamiami Trail has already killed red bay, gumbo limbo, oak and other tropical hardwood trees.

8.   Georgia- Pacific will replace half of its imported tropical hardwood paneling layers with the Monticello product.

9.   High quality but light-weight metals such as cast aluminum are poised to knock tropical hardwoods off their outdoor thrones.