VORACIOUS demand for wood to feed factories for exports and satisfy wealthier consumers at home has turned China into a magnet for the illegal timber trade, an environmental group says.
It is causing other countries to strip their forests as Beijing does little to discourage the practices, says the report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a London-based activist group.
Countries as far away as Mozambique in Africa and the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific as well as Myanmar, Laos and other Chinese neighbours are felling rare hardwoods and other trees at unsustainable rates to fulfil Chinese demand, said the report, which was released on Thursday.
In some countries, the EIA found that Chinese buyers were undermining international agreements to stop illegal logging and the exports of rare species by making payoffs and using smuggling networks.
"These investigations reveal how Chinese traders thrive on crime, corruption, the purchase of political patronage and poor forest governance in the producer countries from which they source," said the report. It later said "China's government has done virtually nothing to curb illegal imports, while putting in place policies to ensure supply from some of the worst illegal logging hotspots in the world."
Chinese government agencies declined initial comment, saying they had not seen the report and asking for questions be submitted in writing. In the past, the government has responded to criticisms that China is preying on developing nations' raw materials by saying the trade is mutually beneficial, generating income and jobs for the suppliers.
Chinese demand for wood has been driven by the country's fast-rising prosperity and its emergence as the world's workshop over the past 15 years.
The report relied on undercover investigations and on analysing data from UN and Chinese agencies.
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