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This link was published on 21 October 2015

Austrian timber giant ransacking Romania's forests

Austrian timber company Schweighofer is linked to large-scale illegal logging which accounts for half of Romania's timber production. An EIA investigation finds that almost all the illegal timber ends up in the company's mills. Romania still has an estimated 218,000 hectares of old growth forests. A recent Romanian government study estimated that 80 million cubic meters of timber have been cut illegally in the past 20 years, representing a loss to the Romanian economy of over €5 billion. Following the report’s publication, WWF filed a complaint at the Federal Forest Office in Vienna for violations of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) and calls for a full investigation of the allegations against Schweighofer.

  • The Ecologist
  • WWF
  • Timber
  • EIA
  • Illegal Timber
  • Schweighofer
  • estimated 218,000 hectares of old growth forests
  • 80 million cubic meters
  • Federal Forest Office in Vienna
  • European Union Timber Regulation