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Good Wood?
If you stock good wood products, from either green or amber sources, and would like to be included in our guide, please complete the supplier form.
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit organisation established to promote the responsible management of the world's forests.
Look for this logo and/or code to make sure your wood is good.
Green = Good Wood
These timber species are the best option. Good Wood timber species are:
- from FSC-certified forests, or
- verified Pacific ecotimber from community forest operations, or
- verified recycled, reused and urban salvage.
Amber = 2nd choice
These timber species should only be used after checking the source carefully.
Amber wood includes sources that are in transition to Good Wood or from a non-controversial or neutral source. Question your supplier. If they can prove the wood product comes from one of the following sources, it is okay to buy. Please persist – it's your right to know. Amber status wood is:
- verified from a forest or plantation in transition to FSC certification (eg, via stepwise schemes such as Tropical Forest Trust (TFT) and SmartStep)
- certified by standards other than FSC. CSA standards are okay but MTCC, PEFC, AFS and ISO are not.
- verified legal by the credible third-party Smart Wood VLC
- verified community small-scale sawn timber or Community Timber
- plantation wood (not preservative-treated) verified as not coming from an area where the forest was cleared to make the plantation after 1994, including rubberwood, eucalypts, cypresses and acacia
- non-verified recycled, reused and urban salvage
- bamboo, coconut wood and recovered orchard trees like mango wood.
Red = Bad wood
These timber species should not be used. All known supplies are from illegal and/or destructive logging.
What is Good Wood?
Good Wood comes from ethical and ecologically sustainable sources. When you choose Good Wood, you support a solution to deforestation and related climate change, you protect unique biodiversity and you help local forest communities find alternatives to poverty and loss of livelihood.
Good Wood in Practice
View stories from our Good Wood Champions. Listen to architects, designers, suppliers, renovators and experts as they share their experiences of sourcing and using Good Wood. Watch video of Good Wood solutions in action.
Resources
Need more information about Good Wood and the issues behind your consumer choices? Learn why forests are so important for the health of our planet, watch films from around the world, read the latest reports and download handy factsheets to take along to your timber retailers.
