Barcodes on trees may fail to guarantee ethical wood
28 August 2012
Purchasers buying Indonesian timber under a new initiative to put barcodes on trees to certify them as legally harvested should be aware that the wood may still not be ethically produced.
Dr Paul Toyne, a director of ethical consultancy Article 13 and the former head of the conservation group WWF's forestry programme in the UK, welcomed the move by two Indonesian logging companies to attach labels to timber and products made from it.
But he said the real question purchasers should ask themselves was whether the wood had come from sustainable...