tropical woods
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In 1904 a Boston syndicate, grandly titled the Swan Islands Commercial and General Trading Co., bought the place to harvest coconuts and tropical woods, but lost money steadily through the years.
From Time Magazine Archive
The nation imposed a moratorium on ivory imports, altered fishing practices that threaten sea life, and has begun to discuss reducing its consumption of tropical woods.
From Time Magazine Archive
New Zealand has gone further: it has said it will stop importing tropical woods from places where there is uncontrolled logging.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some tropical woods are so hard that their surfaces can be reduced only by a scratch-plane.
From Handwork in Wood by Noyes, William
In the dense tropical woods near Rio Janeiro I heard in late October—springtime, near the southern tropic—the songs of many birds that I could not identify.
From Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore
