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 on a massive scale.
