Earthsight’s 18-­month-­long investigation has found that Ikea is selling beech chairs made from wood which was illegally felled in the forests of the Ukrainian Carpathians, home to endangered lynx and bear. Illegal wood has been used to make a number of well­-known products, including its iconic folding, slatted Terje chair and best­-selling Ingolf dining chair. Tens of thousands of chairs made from illegal wood are being sold at Ikea stores across the globe each year, including in the US, UK and Germany. This illegal harvesting is being enabled by the corrupt state-owned forestry enterprises which run most of Ukraine’s forests. Continued illegal logging to supply Ikea’s beech chairs was even detected by Earthsight during the worldwide Coronavirus (Covid-19) lockdown of April 2020...

[also refers to VGSM, Plimob & Egger]