IKEA Sundvik furniture allegedly made from illegal Russian wood
Investigative research organisation Earthsight has released a report that claims the pine found in IKEA's Sundvik children's furniture range comes from trees illegally felled in protected Russian forests.
According to the report, which is titled IKEA's House of Horrors, some of the wood used in the popular Sundvik range comes from trees in the Irkutsk region of Siberian Russia that were illegally felled under the pretence of removing diseased trees.
Top: Earthsight claims that IKEA has been using illegally felled wood for a decade. Above: its report traverses the journey pine makes from Siberia into the furniture range
The practice, known as sanitary felling, can legally be used to reduce the spread of disease throughout a forest. But the report claims that the use of the practice was "unjustified". "We found massive clear-cutting in protected forests," Tara Ganesh, Earthsight's head of timber investigations, told Dezeen.
"A lot of it comes down to the illegal sanitary felling ? the cutting down of trees, apparently, under the excuse that they need urgent felling because they're diseased. But they weren't actually found to be requiring that much felling."
Earthsight made several undercover visits to the protected area
Earthsight's report is the culmination of a year's worth of research. The organisation used satellite imagery, undercover meetings, analysis of court records and visits to the forests to conduct its research.
"What we found w...
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