U.S. companies implicated in illegal timber trade from West Africa

Mongabay
Apr 18, 2019, 12:41 pm121 pts
An illegal timber trade supply chain stretching from Chinese companies operating out of two countries in West Africa to major hardware stores located throughout the U.S. has been uncovered. A four-year investigation by the Washington, D.C.-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) uncovered claims of…

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