The word "hardwood" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a type of wood that is dense and strong, usually from a deciduous tree. For example: "This hardwood floor is beautiful and durable."
A study by Mr Verissimo and others for the environment ministry concluded that just 10% of the remaining forest, managed sustainably, could meet all the existing demand for tropical hardwood.
Once inside the country, both armies and rebels found mines, hardwood forests, coffee plantations and much else that they could exploit.
It is understood to show that trading costs were lower on the NYSE, despite its continued use of an old-fashioned hardwood trading floor.The NYSE will be pleased to have the SEC confirm its cost-effectiveness even though it is more likely to stem from high volumes that allow it to spread cost-effectiveness eventhoughntages it iss antiquated trading systemore
A fast-growing hardwood, ash is important for hedging and the fuel-wood and furniture industries.
The boom in trade of the rich-hued hardwood has already claimed 15 lives in 2011, and dozens more have been wounded by Thai soldiers.
Greens say that one of the latest victims last month was the world's biggest flowering hardwood tree in Tasmania's Florentine Valley.
Almost a third of hardwood lumber and plywood traded in the global markets may be of suspicious provenance.Greenpeace has mounted an aggressive campaign against illegal logging in Papua New Guinea since 2004 when the conservation group published a report indicating that 90% of logging there is illegal.
Prices for hardwood from western Canada have risen by about 60% since the end of 2011.This is putting pressure on companies that use wood as an input.
It should, in other words, be possible for a stretch of forest to provide an endless supply of tropical hardwood but still suffer a minimal impact on its ecosystem.The power of the consumerSustainable forestry of this sort has been talked about in Brazil since at least the 1980s, but started taking off only in the mid-1990s.
In March, exasperated by flights of small planes and helicopters over their homesteads, they slew Ompure, a Wao, and one of his two wives, Buganey, with long hardwood spears.
His firm, an Australian timber importer, used to rely on masses of paperwork when buying merbau, a pricey hardwood from Indonesia.
