Partners in Crime: Finland's illegal timber trade with Russia

Publication date: 19 September 2006

Summary

Whilst the Finnish government tries to assure the world that it upholds principles of sustainable forest management and forest protection, it continues to launder illegally and unsustainably logged Russian timber through its border into the European market and beyond.

Between June and August 2006, Greenpeace documented widespread illegal logging in the Russian Karelian Republic and the subsequent transport of illegally logged timber into Finalnd.