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[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/the-timber-detectives-on-the-front-lines-of-illegal-wood-trade by Peter Yeung 9/3/22 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC] | [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/the-timber-detectives-on-the-front-lines-of-illegal-wood-trade by Peter Yeung 9/3/22 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC] | ||
“I only need to look at these two to know immediately it comes from South America,” he says, pointing at a pair of large white cells on a canvas of charcoal gray. “This is down to our years of experience.” | “I only need to look at these two to know immediately it comes from South America,” he says, pointing at a pair of large white cells on a canvas of charcoal gray. “This is down to our years of experience.” | ||
=====Corruption, Forestry Workers, and Siberian Tigers: the Story of Illegal Logging in the Developing World===== | |||
[https://www.sierraclub.org/maryland/blog/2014/06/corruption-forestry-workers-and-siberian-tigers-story-illegal-logging by SIERRA CLUB 25/6/14] | |||
There’s a dark past behind the pieces of paper sitting right in your printer, right in your notebook— may be right beneath your pencil. Potentially dark, that is. According to the EIA (Environmental Investigation Agency), up to 90% of timber logged in some developing countries is done so illegally. Therefore—assuming you didn’t buy some specialty paper from a country without rainforests and a fragile government— there is a strong likelihood that the wood products you’ve purchased in America are more tainted with corruption than you’d like to believe. | |||
