How the UK's Timber Trade Federation hopes to bust the illegal timber market

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UK's timber trade association signs up to support the WWF's Forests Campaign and calls for changes to EU regulations

As the Center for Global Development warns an area of forest equivalent to the size of India will be cut down by 2050 without urgent efforts to bring an end to unsustainable and illegal logging, pressure...

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