Borderlines

Borderlines: Vietnam's Booming Furniture Industry and
Timber Smuggling in the Mekong Region

Vietnam has become a hub for processing huge quantities of unlawfully-logged timber from
across Indochina, threatening some of the last intact forests in the region, a major new report
reveals. Much of the illegally-imported wood is made into furniture for export to consumer
markets in Europe and the US. Undercover investigations by the UK-based Environmental
Investiagtions Agency (EIA) and Indonesian NGO Telapak have revealed how Vietnam's
booming economy and demand for cheap furniture in the West is driving rapid deforestation
throughout the Mekong river region, particularly in neightbouring Laos.

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