Do not buy destroyed rainforests

Even though it looks beautiful, a square meter of mahogany can mean many times its own size in destroyed rainforest. 

Harvesting the most valuable types of wood in the forest, such as mahogany, is often the first stage of deforestation. For every tree that is cut down, at least another ten surrounding trees are destroyed. In Norway we steadily import less wood from the rainforests and most of us think that it is not possible to buy trees from the rainforest from Norwegian dealers. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Every year a significant amount of tropical wood is imported into Norway and other European countries. The wood that is sold includes teak from Burma, the location of Asia’s last great natural teak forest. According to the Rainforest Foundation Norway, there are no labelling systems for tropical timber that can guarantee that the goods you are buying have not come from a destroyed rainforest. To be sure that your internal décor does not contribute to deforestation and increased greenhouse gas emissions you should not use tropical timbers.  At www.regnskog.no you can find a list of the various types of wood from the rainforest.