IKEA blamed for Romanian forest destruction

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IKEA blamed for Romanian forest destruction

IKEA is under scrutiny over its wood sourcing practices after two reports linked the furniture giant to destructive logging in some of Europe’s last ancient forests. The recent investigations, conducted separately by Greenpeace and fellow environmental groups Agent Green and the Bruno Manser Fonds (BMF), focus on IKEA’s procurement of wood from ecologically sensitive areas in Romania’s Carpathian Mountains. Both reports argue that IKEA’s actions…