Demand for wood from ipê trees in the Amazon Basin could lead to their extinction if better international trade regulations aren’t implemented soon, according to a new report from Forest Trends. Ipê ...

The tropical wood type ipê is popular for building exclusive wooden decks, and in North America and Europe, the demand for the material has increased sharply. Now, a study from Chalmers University of ...

After reading Ms. Carol Montgomery's letter I called the Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary to try and understand how the Audubon Society could claim that their Ipe boardwalk was done in a sustainable way. I ...

A report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) tracked the equivalent of 1,828 shipping containers of illegal wood sourced in the state of Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon. Nearly 3% of this ...