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lang=EN-US>China’s Voracious Appetite for Timber Stokes Fury in Russia and
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sharply restricting logging in its own forests, China turned to imports,
overwhelming even a country with abundant resources:
Russia.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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from Russia stacked outside Manzhouli, a Chinese border town, where the wood is
processed and then shipped throughout the country and the world.CreditCreditLam
Yik Fei for The New York Times<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/steven-lee-myers"><SPAN
style="COLOR: windowtext; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Steven Lee
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2019<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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the Altai Mountains to the Pacific Coast, logging is ravaging Russia’s vast
forests, leaving behind swathes of scarred earth studded with dying
stumps.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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culprit, to many Russians, is clear: China.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>Since
China began restricting commercial logging in its own natural forests two
decades ago, it has increasingly turned to Russia, importing huge amounts of
wood in 2017 to satisfy the voracious appetite of its construction companies and
furniture manufacturers.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt" lang=EN-US>“In
Siberia, people understand they need the forests to survive,” said Eugene
Simonov, an environmentalist who has studied the impact of commercial logging in
Russia’s Far East. “And they know their forests are now being
stolen.”<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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lang=EN-US>Russia has been a witting collaborator, too, selling Chinese
companies logging rights at low cost and, critics say, turning a blind eye to
logging beyond what is legally allowed.<SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></P><SPAN
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Article on logging by Chinese companies in Russia with my
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