Undercover Investigators Find Oregon Link To Illegal Rainforest Logging

By Tony Schick, Conrad Wilson and David Steves
Oregon Public Broadcasting
March 25, 2019
Category: Forestry
Region: United States, US West

OREGON — Jim Green wanted his prospective business partners to know he wasn’t all that concerned with where they cut down the tropical hardwood that would eventually become veneer siding on homes across the United States. …As it turns out, Green, a Eugene businessman and hardwood importer… was revealing his secrets to an environmental watchdog group’s undercover investigators, who were surreptitiously recording him on video. Those video recordings, along with other investigative materials, have been shared with federal officials, who are conducting an investigation of possible illegalities involving west Central African rainforest poaching, black market trading, and the roles played by Northwest businesses. On Monday, the watchdog group behind the undercover operation, Environmental Investigation Agency, released that video and the rest of its findings to the public.

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