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Nothing else left to log: are eco-certified timber companies stripping Russia of its last old growth forests?

Source
Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2014-08-18

Extensive logging (both legal and illegal), land conversions, road-building, wildfires, and poor forest management practices in Russia have degraded much of its forests. According to recent figures from Global Forest Watch, Russia lost almost 37 million hectares of tree cover from 2001 to 2013.

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