Report alleges IKEA has been sourcing wood illegally cut in Russian protected forests for years

Ikea has allegedly been sourcing timber for its products from Russian companies engaged in illegal logging of pine trees in Russia’s protected Siberian boreal forests, a new investigation has revealed.

In a year-long probe by London-based investigative group Earthsight, the Swedish flatpack furniture manufacturer was the most well-known of several Western firms found to have sourced lumber for its products from ExportLes Group, a collection of companies owned by Evgeny Bakurov, one of Russia’s wealthiest businessmen-politicians.

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/07/laundering-machine-furniture-giant-ikea-implicated-in-logging-protected-siberian-forests/