Vietnam has become a major South-East Asian hub for processing illegally logged timber, according to a report from two environmental charities.
The trade threatens some of the last intact forests in the region, say the UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Indonesia’s Telapak.
Because Vietnam has increased measures to protect its own forest, producers are getting timber from other nations.
The authors add that some of the timber is reaching the UK as garden furniture.
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