Glenn Ashmore wrote:

"Nicholas B" wrote in message
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Meranti...

Use it if you will. But remember that your boat is contributing to
deforestation in Borneo. Your pleasure... will be at someone's cost.

Nicholas

Then there is Okoume which comes
almost exclusively from Gabon. The Dutch, Israeli and Chinese logging
operations there are opening up primeval forest to settlement and are only
giving lip service to replanting.

According to Shelman Marine, a major manufacturer of okoume plywood,
nearly all of the okoume on the market comes from plantation grown
trees. It seems that whatever old growth okoume there is on the market
is a by product of development, not of deliberate logging.