tropical woods
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New Zealand has gone further: it has said it will stop importing tropical woods from places where there is uncontrolled logging.
From Time Magazine Archive
The nation imposed a moratorium on ivory imports, altered fishing practices that threaten sea life, and has begun to discuss reducing its consumption of tropical woods.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1904 a Boston syndicate, grandly titled the Swan Islands Commercial and General Trading Co., bought the place to harvest coconuts and tropical woods, but lost money steadily through the years.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vegetation was all novel, but it had that barbaric rankness of all tropical woods, with nothing of the sylvan sweetness and simplicity of our home woods.
From Time and Change by Burroughs, John
They were not like the tropical woods of Hawaii, and owe more to the exceeding picturesqueness of the natural scenery.
From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
