China: Top buyer of illegal timber drives deforestation

Environmental Investigation Agency: China, emergent superpower and the world's second biggest economy, is effectively standing on the sidelines as its exponential growth devastates forests in a trade worth billions of dollars a year. In the new report Appetite for Destruction: China`s Trade in Illegal Timber, launched today in Beijing, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals that China is now the single largest international consumer of illegal timber, importing wood stolen by organised criminal syndicates...

URL: http://www.eia-international.org/china-worlds-top-buyer-of-illegal-timber-drives-deforestation
Enclosure: http://www.eia-international.org/?p=6379