illegal wood exports and imports case tremendous damage to the environment, and people that import tons of wood that was illegaly logged in primary forests need to be punished harshly.


The problem with illegal wood is that it usually comes with seemingly correct papers. The solution is a DNA test, that then often proves that its a species for which legal paperwork cannot exist because its globally banned.

If you loosen these laws, then the USA will turn into a market / dumping ground for illegal wood from rainforests all around the world.

if the wood that is ceised and destroyed is worth millions of dollars, then they really got the right guy, they caught a guy that is involved in largescale destruction of rainforest for largescale profit. No sympathy, lock that CEO up.

Tigers have trouble surviving because their bones and fur are extremely valuable, Elephants and Rhinos face similar problems because of their tusks and horns. Its just the same with rare species of old big ranforest trees. Defenseless, and with a big bounty on their head. No dead or alife bounty, dead only, it must be cut up to cash in. Only way to deal with it is to crush the market for such products, to search, seize and destroy it as if it was heroin or TNT. No recompensation, no protection for people caught with it, only punishment.

It would be sad if the USA now allows all illegal wood.... as long as its just imported from other nations
The Redwood may survive, all other rare and majestic species will be turned into guitars and rifle handles and terraces by the nature-loving people of the US of freakin A.