Materials all around us

was extensively used as a material for construction: pillars, beams, floors, furniture in general, etc. It was hardly appreciated for being a
resistant wood. The name given to this type of wood was tea.
Appart from the wood, many other elements were taken advantage: charcoal as fuel, it's leaves once they fall down to the floor and dry were used
to wrap bananas in order to maintain them in good conditions during they are exported. Another material extracted from the pine tree trunk was its resin
that was transformed into pitch or pez mainly used for caulking in boats and for medicinal purposes.

But this abussive and non sustanaible extraction caused drastic deforestation.