Stealing the Last Forest – (A report about Austrian Wood Mafia which is literally erasing from the face of Earth the last virgin forests in Europe – short videos links in comments)
Stealing the Last Forest – (A report about Austrian Wood Mafia which is literally erasing from the face of Earth the last virgin forests in Europe – short videos links in comments)
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A short video about the report [**Stealing the Last Forest**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp3WGqZJLY4)
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>Romania is home to Europe’s last remaining virgin forests and some of the continent’s largest populations of bears, wolves, and lynx. These forests are under serious threat due to rampant illegal logging. Over a multi-year investigation, EIA documented this illegal logging and found a major driver behind this destruction was an Austrian-based timber and wood processing company known as Holzindustrie Schweighofer.
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>Earlier this year, EIA released a video documenting how Schweighofer willingly and knowingly accepted illegally harvested timber and incentivized additional cutting through a bonus system. The company is the largest buyer of softwood timber in Romania, responsible for processing around 40% of the country’s total annual softwood production. It then sells this processed timber to nearly every European Union member state, to popular biomass companies, to be used as bio-fuel and lumber.
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>EIA’s report, Stealing the Last Forest: Austria’s Largest Timber Company, Land Rights, and Corruption in Romania, provides new evidence to Schweighofer’s illegal business practices and documents the many types of illegalities prevailing in Romania’s forests. In nearly every case investigated, the illicit wood arrived at Schweighofer’s mills. The report also identifies Europe’s largest buyers of Schweighofer’s products.
**In 2014 the Austrian company Schweighofer with the Austrian government threatened that the bilateral investment treaty between Romania and Austria will be affected if the law protecting the forests is adopted by Romania.**
A video about it:
[Holzindustrie Schweighofer & Illegal Timber](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8TaHTSi2dc) (watch carefully starting with min: 1:11)
Another short video from 2019
[Does the timber mafia in Romania exist? | Criminal structures in the timber industry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjMqlFlo0pg)
**So, when you read anything about the GREEN AUSTRIANS, who for example are suing Europe for the nuclear power plants, just have in mind that actually they are the biggest hypocrites pieces of sh*t who are protecting since decades ago the destruction of last secular forests in Europe.**