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and now we are being chased. the and they are calling out of people that had we asked to be very fast check when you have reception please, we might have to call the police i'm with some environmental activist somewhere in the romanian forest. we're being followed by angry longer. it's not that road, but off. sure. sure. how do i love that there is another new piece of furniture made of wood and it was pretty inexpensive position . i think i have quite a lot of wood in my apartment to and i've never given much thought to where it comes from doing us it up for the 2nd. the furnishings made of wood at a good price. we're not told where the wood comes from, just where the item was made. as consumers,

we usually don't think about where are would it comes from? what is supposed to be eco friendly after all. but the headlines tell a very different story. illegal logging and violence are escalating, wood thieves are killing foresters my hunt for the timber mafia. begins and romania this morning. raids on companies are taking place across the country, targeting firms of suspected of involvement in the illegal timber trade. it's a business that's worth billions. the police have given me permission to accompany the raid, but then revoked it. even though we badly need more transparency when it comes to the timber industry. the

. the carpet and mountains are home to one of your ups the last and largest primeval forest. but many parts of it looked like this. it's been estimated that half of all logging in romania is illegal. and germany is one of the biggest buyers . with consumption is booming, and forests are shrinking across the globe. not far from the ukrainian border. i need some activists. perfect. some of them are the, the men are members of the romanian organization, agent green. they received the tip offs from the police about areas that they are the signs of a legal longing year in this area where the law enforcement is waiting for us. now there is a very high suspicion of massive logging really lucky. we are quite

a bunch today and there is a lot of law enforcement the wrong. but this area has a see story violence. gabrielle poem founded agent green because he spent years finding the timber mafia, the global network that includes loggers traders and corrupt officials. the activists believe that longer is, might have reused a single permit over and over logging far more trees than they were permitted to. but the local authorities don't see eye to eye with the activists on that bed. with us, we see you're definitely mistaken. the law says, the standard practice might be clear, but sometimes there are gaps in the lowest grade zones. i don't agree, shut down for me, is a police officer,

it's very clear. it's all the trees are still here. where does all this timber in the sole mail come from? and why is this so much traffic on this road? on it also says it does not support our task forces checking, which was cut down and what was. so we knew what's wonderful for one day to have. i thought it was, well, we'd like to take a look at the place you'll people are checking out. so let's go, i'll put on my do some more magic less than the the activists aren't quite buying the story. corruption is wide spread in romania and the timber mafia. exploits that they bribe public officials, politicians and police officers. after the raid one police officer who had taken part in the investigation was arrested, accused of taking 300000 bureaus in bribes from a timber dealer. the activist survey, the forest from above the drone pilot doesn't want to show his face out of concern

for his safety or at the bottom of the river here. if i see anything wrong with the course on this side. but if you just just go above our line, my like a 100 meters or less. you can start seeing the big logging at the top and it goes around the . so it's not it's not easy to get here. if it's of this hard to document how much timber is being logged here, and we're not even in the remotest forest of romania yet. just imagine how complicated this would be in other locations to send that out. and then on the next to the trees which are being marked for the cutting. there is other trees that

has been cut or a d. r about 3 months ago. that's how the science looks like. but they are not doing any single paper. so they are missing and being caught illegally and there is no mark around them. environment is monitoring the illegal logging can be dangerous, as gabrielle po knows all too well. if you log into court, there were plenty of drive threatening events. i was beaten all wants to that, and actually there was a one time when they really thought they, they kill me because i was not moving anymore by chance. i survived. but my body's scaring deep once, and i basically no longer have a bone in my body, which was not broken. that attack happened in 2015 phone and is team from agent green. we're investigating illegal logging and a nature reserve when they were attacked by a group of men. 2 phone

was wearing a body camera at least 6 foresters had been killed in romania over the last 10 years. of the government and law enforcement are supposed to protect romania as natural resources . instead, people like gabrielle poland, risk of their lives to save the old growth forests. romania joined the european union in 2007. in 2020 the you put romania on notice for failing to protect its forest. but as of september 2023. the you hasn't taken legal action the next day we head out to another location. on the way we passed piles of log the birch trees trees this size or at least 100

years old. and they are essential to the local eco system. and old trees also store more carbon this forest is managed by a room seized by the state forest administration has been dogged by accusations of corruption. one employee told me that his boss threatened him for refusing bribes. today the police aren't accompanying us. so whenever we stop, we don't leave the guys before turning the cars around. okay. i have to to one. so i want to know it's nice that we stay together with the let's see where they are . so i think it's very close to to do while i look at what huge trees they had here. this is a beautiful mix for a typical product is really, really nice for us doing with us because they're dragging the trees through the

havas to. yeah. a calling all the vegetation, including the, the new generation of threes. you're not supposed to do industrial operations like this. you're supposed to cut one piece of the time that drag everything together, destroying or the generation to sort of, it's beyond the legal log and use. nobody's allowed or i'm not allowed to cut. it's, they're working like they hate the floor is this is a, they have a station. this is a full for the destruction of the entire how beat that of course we had their way the activists to want to gather evidence and confront the longer that right now. hello, we was sent to you by booker. and just because of the rate the out, the authorization for this area has expired, but i saw that it listed the date of december 31st. so there's a discrepancy once the expense of funding. that's not our problem.

maybe there's an error in the system or something like that, but we are 100 percent in the clear temper has become such a big deal. it's under even more scrutiny than drugs. we can hardly do our jobs anymore. i don't know because i've never started. so you've destroyed everything here, everything is why you doing this. it's just a go, it's a little more hide and destroyed, and i think this is a start. diggs, they look at this tree, you cut it down, even though it's more than 200 years old. i thought that you're not supposed to be here in the 1st place and part, you know, you know, at all, but i got to put, they suddenly think they look then the longer is realize the man they're talking to isn't here on official business. he mention my name, they've realized he's the environmental activist, gabrielle opponent says, just says the police going these very dangerous. he mentioned my name, therefore,

i couldn't believe this. there is a bounty bryce on my head if they catch me, they kill me. whoever gets my head gets a lot of money and now we are being chased and they are calling out of people ahead. we have to be very fast and is more worried than i've ever seen him. and his fear is contagious. that maybe is not there or should should. how do i love the doors of this car? was the name of this place. i start to look for anything in the car that we could use to defend ourselves. we're in luck. it's a part of logging truck, not

a blockade and we're not the only ones who don't have reception. the loggers don't either, so they can't call for reinforcements. we managed to escape the global demand for wood is huge. we use it in construction for heating furniture, even toilet paper, and the cardboard box is used in online shopping. there was even wood in clothing, and tires and deforestation is a major contributor to carbon emissions. yet and a 2021 e report, researchers were unable to identify the source of 120000000 metric tons of wood used in a single year. so is this, the on identifiable would ending up in our own homes? to find out more? i pay a visit to your honda sign in who's been what detective for w. w. f. germany for 20 years now? low enough according to in simple the stain to 13 percent of wood sold globally was

loved illegally. and that's a lot. and it seemed as low to end up with and didn't tropical forests, according to ancient bowl. it's 60 to 90 percent of women. so the moment i purchase a product with a would comes from a high risk country would be highly likely that this product to stems from some sort of illegal activity piece of product. and they've gone into quint. there are labels that certify sustainable sourcing, like the one issued by the forest stewardship council and e u regulations band the sale of a legal 10 brentwood and europe. and siri, let's, let's give this final thoughts on people. that regulation does exist, but it's not implemented well. certificates exist, but they are often meaningless in high risk countries regardless. so illegal would continues to play a role including on the gym and markets. what has been the use 2013 timber regulation was written with loopholes, for example, in applied to tables, but not chairs, a new deforestation. la aims to close such gaps,

vendor in the guidelines as long as the products made of illegal timber sold at a lower price. you can run across those products when you buy furniture from a retailer at a roof motion prices that can stick in price based on so going online to look at a furniture vendor like move of health. now, what about that? a lot this fits shante does is it will take a look that it has solid wooden legs and it's a posted if it costs $149.00 euros. because if i'd say that's a low price for a chair like that, and it's fairly fancy, it's off the way to being an armchair. musician help us have some here. a wooden bench costs 40 euro is a table made of solid oak. 129 euro's that's nothing unusual for your honda sign and it's not prove that the wood was illegally sourced, but it is worth a closer look of the see i see a list in bags of 17 minutes away. we decide to check out some local retailers.

this is a big part of the wood detectives work on the fitness center. it is what that is supposed to be. this is my been getting like done is strangely enough. every time the w w. f doesn't market analysis, we find suspicious product itself on the home just by the way of deal thorazine, finding them, doing those tests using this for like 5 at a time. they failed to create more transparency. so the industry has a cheap, it's a most, but it's so often says, big health teams was presented to us because it's the flavor fund regarding what the impact of the legal lumber trade and the destruction of the forest is terrible . feeding me not linda. it's driving climate change and the loss of buying a diversity. why is a legal team but treated like a minor offense knock before they go out, they more inspections, more rigorous controls and much roy and penalties, and yet, which would have a deterrent effect of a conclusive still happening of his cost with the whole. you know, i'm speaking to somebody named miss izzie. ikea is the world's largest furniture

retailer and it consumes more than half a percent of the global timber harvest. we're here to take a look at a few of the items that seem suspiciously cheap on their website. so this week, icons to this is so from what does this lease chelsea's very cheap. so we can assume it comes from a country where labor costs to load on. the tip is as low as tend to be the same countries that have issues with corruption and with a lot of illegal looking. so when what happens when say that's the case in eastern europe, it's sending russia as a civilian, was the only part. so it would be interesting to know exactly where these good comes from and of itself. abundance has shown will contend the thoughts of contact with him. i keep as full of an expensive furnishings made of solid wood. research carried out by algebra and the earthside organization in 20202021. the found the links between ikea products and the illegal timber. ikea denied the accusations but down and says no furniture retailer can guarantee it's completely free of a legally locked. what are we going to do any fielding in this?

no. the we don't want to call attention to ourselves inside your honda sign and crawls under tables turns chairs upside down and takes 3 hours worth of notes. get over this coupon. and she now put a tip of cleaning for this is behind is made in china. the honest thing, it does go to a tree rings here, a very scene. so these tree probably grew in a very cold environment. was in long some weeks that slow as growth and gives you would that looks like this is the key for the controller. this time might have come from russia being processed in china that exported to european. no, no, it will pop. that's my guess disappeared. this one is somebody from neutral russian timber is regarded as high risk and it's important was banned after russia invaded ukraine. after a few more purchases at another retailer, we return to its on ins office. we're going to send one samples to a lab to trace its origin.

the is any of this was the product of illegal logging. while we wait for the lab results i had to france where interpol is headquarters. i have a meeting with dr. brown who is an environmental crime investigator for the agency . you mindful? what are we having with in this process? so i tells us to apply on that. it seems like most people don't care about a legal logging. that is this. that's also been my experience, the feeling a lot of the political discussions i've witness completely missed. the point of the problem is growing more and more urgent with us. more and more massive and worry something i'm gonna see you as a topic that should be at the top of our list. months was fema mail looked to enter

pool cooperates with countries around the world. but the problem is huge. around says that interpol estimates the illegal timber industry is worth up to $152000000000.00 a year with community it is then trip. course the environmental crime is the 3rd largest crime in the world. that's the go to. it's right behind illegal drug trafficking and country fits in crime, just cumulative. this and the overall context is also important and context. the 1st 5 mental crime was hand in hand with the worst kinds of organized crime, with things like human traffic in the drug trade. last sections of the weapons, training on the ball from the honda. it even plays an important role in terrorism was an issue with the speed and why terrorism was most vital. these 2, it was because the terrorist groups, for example, i'll show about the, are financed by the riskless plundering of natural resources, illegal logging and illegal charcoal production. legos. a put some of the for all

by to that charcoal who is also imported into the already done that, we feel our sausages on it and it's it and have no idea of where it actually comes from. this will come to start safety here. that gives us, it's a lot like an investment portfolio pound explains the criminal organizations invest in a variety of industries, including a legal timber size. is this, and then the tool list salsa is a natural resource. that right now is just as important as gold is the kind of thing the organized crime loves. huge profit was a very low penalty using stuff. so new they're not the tyrant on. as a result of the problem is growing massively must sieve. illegal logging is increasing illegal pets ramping some try that full on human flows. those i show him some photos i took during my investigation. let me make this bigger. so that's what you meant by this is a forest in romania communion. this is an old us,

the criminal organizations like police. this like this. you can protect it. isolated regions where there's little oversight to color where they can just run 2nd area and sell the temper illegally at the high price. it goes by difficult and violence is please and the grow. i know, i know holo romania is not alone. many other countries also have the same problem. and i meant to post as in east, south, east asia, uncle and especially them become delta. and there's also a huge hot spot for legal logging in tropical forest and in portion bundle have been told that you're skeptical who does highly sought after and demand keeps rising even as prices keep rise. i think that he did good in cambodia. nature is also being plundered over the past 20 years, more than a quarter of the countries for us to vanished about 90 percent of that due to illegal login. the

marcus hopkins came here from germany some 30 years ago. the environmental activist has tried to counter cambodia as powerful timber mafia which is said to have ties to the highest circles of government. rather than meeting in a public place. he's come to my hotel. this is fucking, so that's done. we'll get to the gulf. you'll have an illegal loading operation run by gangsters that pays a regular wage to the pop director. he'll give some of that to his subordinates and the lunch chunk to his bosses in the ministry. i meant wasn't times the bus in my opinion, minutes daily. the ranges, worker's guns for the logging company in the protected forests, frontier and totally illegal left on the way to city or a classic method to style operation. regardless. this class, such as matthew business openly criticizing corruption in cambodia is dangerous and active as friend of michael is high because criticized the military for their involvement. he was then shot and killed by a military police officer who does the hits administer pension busy business,

local activists. so basically risking their lives to expose these to us. the deals who is working behind shop know, given that you'd think that the bureaucrats would at least bother to properly and forced air on trade agreements. ation. especially tremendous done just because as long as they're a bias, as long as there's a market, we just tilting against windmill. see the call from the 100 bytes of data and pennsylvania can convince this map shows how much force did land cambodia has lost over the past 2 decades. i'm hoping to talk to environmental organizations and activists about this, but no one wants to speak on camera. finally i get a lead and head to the pray long forest. large areas of the lowland green forest

were declared a protected area in 2016. but the trees are still vanishing at an astonishing rate . joining a group of men who regularly patrol the area in hopes of stopping the longer as were devastating forest near their village will be the good. it's 6 30 in the morning more than i just got up and don't really know where i am, who's been able somewhere in the middle of the forest in fall through the night, i kept hearing the sound of chainsaws taking down trees for me, it wasn't all that far from here on the shelves of a text when you have some time for a hurried breakfast before we set out to them. man, it's all i don't mind that i think the we're not actually supposed to be here to the authorities have forbidden them. and tell

me and some have already received visits from the police. the trade in timber is a money spinner and the people involved in it won't give that up easily. even if this is a protected area, the tim so key is one of the groups, unofficial leaders. he and i'll let teen document the traces, the longer is leave behind. they share their evidence with researchers and posted on social media. how old is the truth of the month now? $100.00. yeah. with this family didn't. southside, that's what was called the timber company, sells the root in vietnam and other countries. now i'm going to go to the europe. under cambodian law, timber exports are highly regulated, but the smugglers pay that little heed. once in vietnam officials issue new

documentation and the timber appears legal on paper, at least in the meantime, the you in vietnam have signed the trade agreements. it's likely that vietnam will soon be able to certify the legality of its wood. and the furniture exports made of it. and that in turn would eliminate checks in the, you know, what was the name, what's the name of the tree? again, this is the reading them to me, to me. okay, well then we'll see if we can find a trace of this type of tre, you back in europe, the name can but for now our search for longer is continues. we spent the entire morning making our way through the nature reserve. it's hot and dusty work. the

. there are been some violent encounters in the past. so the patrol takes a friendly approach. you know, it's illegal to cut down these trees and yes, i know, and i and then then why you doing it in that? don't more than that. um, there's new work in my village. slow panels of the, the 2 loggers do the dirty work on but earn very little for it. the big money ends up elsewhere, which is the reality of the illegal temper trade at all. both nature and people are exploited, right? so i can't come here anymore. my exactly, this is just a warning. the authorities some, they'll put you in handcuffs and i'm wondering wonder why come on we only take your chainsaws and tell you to go home. they don't are probably the when they take apart the chain saws to put a stop to the illegal logging, if only for the moment the

soon we run across to another group of longer this time it's a father and his sons. our father says he only found young trees. all the big ones had been felt there. chainsaws are also confiscated. the 2 by the sound of chainsaws is coming from every direction from the left and the right. look it over there are some more logger is loading up the good. i'm a lot never they are about to take apart the chain. saw as when cement arrive security of the by with it there

from the lumber company. suddenly the mood is tense. why did you come all this way? say, i don't know what to tell, you know that you know exactly where we are. i give us on the do take fall. do we have a problem here? why would you tell me if we do then to be is if you want that, then you will be at fault. if we count degree, they'll be serious problems. excuse me. so now we have to hurry again and leave the forest. but a single security guys could call for reinforcements. we don't have cell reception here and we're alone. spends a lot the men had planned to spend another day in the forest. instead they decide it's time to leave. it's too dangerous. we wait until after sunset and then head out away from the forest

of forest tuesdays might well be numbered. the back in germany, the lab results from the wood items we bought aren't here yet. so i set out to find out more about the wood from cambodia, here at the tuning institute of wood research and humbling deputy director get hug, call is in charge of with identification using bits in division shelf solutions. i spoke to scientific collection itself. we have about 35000 boot samples here because i'm in all of them documented these here, solid, tropical woods and of and here's an old piece labeled ice institute for foreign and colonial for a straight stitch of meaning was upside to come of the institute examines would from all over the world calls and see what dealers and government agencies like the customs authority come here to find out where

a particular shipment of wood comes from. since placing your isn't that one industry, we have the samples you sent us on in the com hobb or it's the wood i brought back from the nature reserve in cambodia. the samples are 1st boiled until they soften some for several days the out. so then there sliced extremely thinly, making it so this because cool. i'm pushing it under the microscope. lice live can follow along live on the monitor, the so it's in thinking inside the cells does these lanes are very unusual. i'm of either in single root. i'm looking to design it or something else i might show in a story sales extending during right here. and really what you can see these granular structures dollar. so they're crystals and some toys. look, they're starting to glue and push the app like a prism. the dispersed as light things time got. you can see that here, the top. so lutely mostly engines, lots already served. just include escape. there are only a few issues of treating like along the genus terminology until the crystals like this because of some of the highest was a bullseye as a photograph of the month. it shouldn't get all the costs, believes it's

a tree known on the market as indian laurel to confirm that the interest it's attributes into a database cloud american model doesn't want funding isn't already see there are certain similarities from under our microscope and our reference database is of course, there are these large corps with storage cells or, and also these fine lines. and so it's conclusive. it's a valuable indian logo. as i said along with cambodia. indian laurel also grows in other southeast asian countries and india over the past few years get how the call has seen more of it on the european and german market. it taken up by thousands of beginning in 2017. we started seeing more of this on the market is already made product for musical instruments, color and texture wise. it resembles ruth root doesn't on an indian model, isn't that protected species. so it can be used without any difficulties or preconditions, which for all right, and for vin, most of it, where do you see it on musical instruments? if i wasn't devin, how's it does things like finger boards that doesn't get the same range of things as you'd see with rosewood and so lovely,

we would do some sort of thoughts and some place on we check out the website of a musical instrument retailer and indian laurel there are 235 glasses on please. yes, those are, those are e instruments and we will see this kind of wood quite often on the fingerboard system and there's a lot of them are visual and not from unknowns. vendors wire epa phones, all major manufacturer as well. yeah. how's it going? so if it's a global friend for me, you get hold of the call. adding trees to the list of protected species can help put the brakes on the illegal temper trade. but often the industry just switches to other species, like indian laurel, and even legally logwood can become a problem when it's logged to the point of near extinction. i want to find out more, but from the major timber companies, only a just timber from austria is willing to speak with me. the company has several production sites and romania after a number of scandals. h. s. timber now talents of sustainability credentials,

and it system that's intended to identify legal timber. this is exactly why he just has a very efficient insurance industry. he hired a push at comp to mind is the company's sustainability officer. can you say with a 100 percent certainty that your company never has any illegal woods? you can meet me to 100 percent or we can never see. and this thing with 100 percent certainty, it's, i can't see with a 100 percent certainty that will never have a workplace, oxygen, or any other legal liabilities. every safety system tries to ensure a high level of safety. if you want the percentage through. i see i'm 99.9 percent search since i'm not allowed to come a line, but it doesn't. that's very good. they'll still see good starting use of but he's 99.9 percent certainty even possible in romania romania. romania is part of the european union, which is well regulated in comparison to other places in the world. the basic

structures and romania are functioning and the system is based on the rule of law. they didn't stop because this thing that even well, the rules will only get you so far. if you can just pay a small fee for a counterfeit document. or if you can get an official or a police officer to look the other way for a bit of cash and get them to do things that might not be strictly legal leader. recently, god last just speculation, sorry, it's speculation, but it's also reality that it can be of any event, we don't defend things like that. the factors that we only want to deal with with this being locked legally missing candidates in about half of romanian timber is logged illegally. flush like hoffman sees it like this is give me the issue, isn't the front of station destroying the forest? give me this isn't a clear cutting your, it's old growth forests. separate numbers that would be a little under this phone. but when you look at the trees vanishing and the carpet and isn't that

exactly what is happening for us there being clear cut to get in kind of what some kind of like in the mean did you want to find any major clear cutting and romania over the past 10 years, that was truly an example of clear cuts. i may have taken cash likely to clear cutting. suppose is clear cutting that was done there. i'm pretty sure this is correct in was a 100 percent in areas affected by wind. roughly wind throw refers to trees that were upper rooted by wind. in romania, gabrielle, poland also told me that longer is up through trees by using steel cables and vehicles. the so what is the illegal, what's on ethical and what's simply an allegation. there aren't many clear answers to be found, and clarity is in deliberately short supply. it's an industry worth of billions and consumers want that are affordable would furnishing. the results from our would samples have arrived present in samples from 6 products. the lab didn't find any

indications of a legal would, but it did find 3 discrepancies. the ikea handle was supposedly made of birchwood. the lab identified as pushed by a wood from asia by key offered only a tourist replied. if an error has been made, we will correct it immediately. after another inquiry from us ikea road, we will check the results carefully and consultation with the supplier environment sustainability report ikea road by showing where the wood in our products comes from. we want to set a good example and increase transparency, and that's a bit strange because i've asked ikea several times where it's the wood comes from . and i never got a direct answer stating the name of a country where the word came from. it unfold become that they replied, we always ensure that we observe all relevant rules and regulations in the areas in which we operate. uh, actually using forklift on think of them. and we also send this ikea co took in for testing. the result was the would comes from siberia,

an area that is at high risk for illegal logging. i know ikea finally responded with more specific information about its origins. the word they said it came from the, the codes region upside area and was logged before the total ban on russian wood in ports. a wooden sofa leg was also flag. ikea says the wood came from romania, but the lab said that was unlikely when again, given the wood market needs to become more transparent about sourcing and more controls need to be in place. in germany, the federal agency for food and agriculture or b o e is responsible for wood in ports and they reply to our inquiry. they said they take random samples and use a risk based approach. last year, they conducted $217.00 analyses. not particularly stringent given that 27000 companies in poured wood to germany. the b l. e is part of the ministry of food and agriculture. it's had tim is the me from the green party didn't have time for

an interview. the company uh they sent me in this home room. i'm meeting parliamentary state secretary cloudy, a miller who's also from the green party. so why isn't there more oversight on this issue? as soon as we have to do this within the scope of our staffing resources, um there are inspections and random sampling or spot checks. i wouldn't say that we do less than others do. so i'm doesn't have any dental the problem. the question is, is that enough to know how much of a source of food is a control in the country? do we have the resources to do more? i'd say we could always do more for the, for research departments or fisheries authority, the customs divisions. they all liked to do more, the police, the she played side, everyone wishes for all sorts of things around the other. the bunch of illegal timber is a market worth of billions. but the b l. e has only 23 staff members to monitor the

industry. the agency tells me they've never found illegally harvested timber, not flies, of additive paged. that's kent. one. we know certificates get foraged in. checking them isn't easy for us and our inspection authorities, including customs set. if you say we get a certificate from cambodia, what do you do with that most? mostly then it's with it's authentic, but and verifiable is, was it got maybe you like the language skills or maybe you simply can't check if it's actually official or legal and is this focus of it so on to the god suspended could come from, well, why don't we have stricter regulations about them. why do our laws and regulations have loopholes? just tell me if i put in politics, everyone would want to do more. she was kind of put in europe. everyone gets a se just and everyone has different interests that sticks in testing the be, at least as the average penalty for a violation is $1800.00 euro, says it off cookies and stop. many say penalties for violating the wood trade regulations and import violations. are too low, important, it's something different and it's because of the all,

we could certainly imagine taking a stricter approach extra. definitely. yeah, it was clinicals, but again, they would have to be negotiated with remind me of partners and fund. don't think of a patient papa is the european union temper regulation states. the member states shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of this regulation. so germany could impose strict or penalties statement um and no, thankfully in the, in your left thinking that will anything happen, whatever. i sometimes find it very frustrating when i realize that you and the professor is as i say, and politics you need the skin and a lot of patients other in reality, time is running out in june 2023, a new regulation on deforestation. free products came into force, but according to the un, another $830.00 hector is a forest will be illegally logged in the time it takes to watch this film. some of

that would, will end up in europe. if germany and the you don't act, the brutal business of the timber mafia will continue. and the more environmentalists will be forced to risk their lives in cambodia, in romania and around the world. the in good shape. it's impossible to overlook. sometimes striking is more to noises then just to find out what the different functions are and what, how sound is, is stay healthy in good shape in 30 minutes on the w based on the do not spoken about eco,

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