Habitat Loss, Illegal Logging
2013 • Russia
Demand for hardwood flooring and furniture in the United States, European Union, Japan, and China is making the world's last temperate hardwood forests in Eastern Russia into epicenters for illegal logging. As much as 80 percent of all timber exported annually from the Russian Far East is harvested illegally. The hardwood forests provide habitat for the last wild Siberian Tigers, of which only about 500 individuals remain. Illegal logging also threatening the traditional livelihoods of over 100,000 indigenous people.
"Lumber Liquidators Importing Illegal Hardwood Flooring." Environmental Investigation Agency, 9 Oct. 2013. Web. 12 Mar. 2015. http://eia-global.org/news-media/lumber-liquidators-importing-illegal-hardwood-flooring.
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