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 Safe to buy

Type of wood		Shopping advice	Origin
Bamboo	Officially not a type of wood but a type of grass	All okay!	Asia and other parts of the world
Oak, European	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Europe and some parts of Asia
Red Oak, American	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Eastern North-America
White Oak, American	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Eastern North-America/South Eastern Canada
Maple, American	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Eastern North-America, West-Asia, Europe
Maple, European	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Europe and West-Asia
Ashes wood	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Europe, Japan, China and some other parts of Asia, Eastern North-America
Pinewood, French	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Southern Europe, North Africa
Chestnut (not wild)	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Southern Europe, Some parts of Asia, North Africa
Cherry wood, American	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Europe, some parts of Asia, Eastern North-Amerika
Cherry wood, European	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Europe
Larchwood, European	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Middle / Northern Europe, Siberia, Western North-America
(Chest)nut, American	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Eastern North-America
(Chest)nut, European	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Europe, Asia
Sycamore from American Platans	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice	Eastern part of the U.S.

 Okay to buy IF/BUT:

Type of wood		Shopping advice	Origin
Oak wood	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice. Buying Oak wood from Russia is discouraged: there’s a high risk that the oak wood from Russia has been cut illegally.	Europe, Northern-Asia, Japan, Eastern North America
Beechwood	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice. Beechwood from Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romenia, Slovakia): only buy the FSC certified ones.	Europe
Beechwood, steamed	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice. Beechwood from Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Romenia, Slovakia): only buy the FSC certified ones.	Europe
Pinewood, North-European	Timber from production woods	Preferably with FSC label; without label: second choice. Do not buy pinewood from Russia: there’s a high risk the timber has been cut illegally.

 

Only buy when FSC certified:

Guatambu, Pau Marfin	There’s a high risk the timber has been cut illegally: in Brazil there’s a huge deforestation problem	Only buy when FSC certified!	Brazil
Ipé / Lapacho	There’s a high risk the timber has been cut illegally: in Suriname a lot of  destructive bunch cap and many social conflicts	Only buy when FSC certified!	Tropical Central and South America
Jatoba or Locus	There’s a high risk the timber has been cut illegally: in Brazil there’s a huge deforestation problem	Only buy when FSC certified!	South America
Merbau	Is listed on IUCN red list of endangered wood species	Only buy when FSC certified!	Southern East Asia, South-West Pacific, Madagascar
Sucupira	There’s a high risk the timber has been cut illegally: in Brazil there’s a huge defosteration problem	Only buy when FSC certified!	South America
Purperhart
	There’s a high risk the timber has been cut illegally: in Suriname a lot of  destructive bunch cap and many social conflicts
Only buy when FSC certified!	Tropical Central and South America (Suriname and other countries)
Teak	High risk of illegal logging	Only buy when FSC certified!	Southern East Asia

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