The commerce in black market timber is now the third most worthwhile cross-border crime after counterfeiting and drug trafficking, in accordance with Interpol. The international fraud is destroying essential forests, undermining worldwide sanctions and decimating indigenous lands and livelihoods. But authorities are hitting again. The FT’s Madeleine Speed visits the high-tech forest detectives combating the multibillion-dollar commerce in tarnished timber.
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