# Nyatoh wood ... good or evil? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 24, 2005, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyatoh-wood-good-or-evil/305255 "2005-05-24T13:55:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyatoh-wood-good-or-evil/305255/1 "2005-05-24T13:55:12Z")
My wife was flipping through the Restoration Hardware catalog this AM and saw pati furniture made with “nyatoh”. Turns out it’s a hardwood from Indonesia, being used by manufacturers to replace the now morally reprehensible teak. But some apparently think it’s just as bad. To wit: [http://www.rainforestrelief.org/News\_and\_Events/Rainforest\_Relief\_News/Crate\_\_\_Barrel\_Ending\_Sales\_of\_Nyatoh.html](http://www.rainforestrelief.org/News_and_Events/Rainforest_Relief_News/Crate___Barrel_Ending_Sales_of_Nyatoh.html) > [@](#): > > Crate & Barrel today became fhe firest company to announce that they will end the sales of furniture made from nyatoh, a wood logged from the rainforests of Indonesia. Umm, but some places say that Nyatoh is plantation-grown. Which, frankly, I really can’t find any fault with. Sustainable logging is a good, good thing, IMO. So which is it? Plantation all? Plantation none? Plantation some, and you need to make sure it’s certified? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nyatoh-wood-good-or-evil/305255/2 "2005-05-24T14:07:55Z")
Looks to be ‘plantation some’ [http://www.frim.gov.my/news&events\_r&d14.htm](http://www.frim.gov.my/news&events_r&d14.htm)