Protesting sale of tropical timber

But in Indonesia and Malaysia, the two most forested countries of Southeast Asia, where forests are disappearing fastest, logging by large corporations pursued in no small part to meet rich-world demand for specialty hardwoods at prices that are very far from reflecting the costs entailed.

In the face of environmental protest, the largest chain of Dutch 'Do-it-Yourself' stores promised to stop selling tropical timber by the end of 1995.