True or not: Timber certification claims to make logging eco-friendly

For tropical hardwoods, the trees must be at least 60cm in diameter before they can be chopped down under the Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme. - MTCC

It is the late 1980s and images of Penan tribes blockading logging roads in Sarawak have gone round the world. In the West, there are calls to boycott tropical timber for the harm it does to the forests and native peoples, especially after the landmark Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro in 1992.

One response was to have “forest certification”, so that logging could, in theory, be more eco-friendly and indigenous people would be consulted about logging, so that they could also benefit from it.