NYT: Chinese Demand for Lumber Overwhelms Russian Forests

China’s insatiable demand for timber in recent years has begun to overwhelm the countries supplying its timber, including Russia, according to a New York Times report.

Russia has been disgorging huge quantities of lumber to China (200 million cubic meters in 2017 alone), according to the article, depleting forests in Siberia and selling the material at a low cost. The large amount of logging in Russia has begun to spur protests in the country.

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