Wood in all its states A report by Jérôme Soulard, Valérie Lucas and Samuel Humez
Decorative trend, green trend, in construction as in development, wood today is in fashion. But buying chairs, a table, or a new wooden floor for one's bathroom can involve - without knowing it - a traffic in wood. In France, 40% of the timber traded is of illegal origin. Illegal timber is protected species and especially others from prohibited forest areas, in the Amazon, Africa, Russia and Indonesia. Every year in the world, 13 millions of hectares of forests disappear, a quarter of the surface of France, a football field every two seconds. Deforestation responsible for 20% of greenhouse gas emissions. In Brazil in the Amazon, but also in France, in supermarkets and on construction sites, we have investigated to understand how this illegal timber reaches the shelves of our stores. There are ecological certifications that ensure the traceability of wood. But they are still little used by traders and therefore almost unknown to consumers. Yet in the markets, the green trend is wood and changes are starting. The chains are being organized and local substitute woods are beginning to prevail to replace the exotic woods of imports. Illegal timber is now very much present in our country, but it is not, it seems, inevitable.
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