On this edition of Your Call, reporter Alexander Sammon will discuss his New Republic piece, Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest. Romania is home to one of the largest and most important old-growth forests left in the world.
Sammon reports that in 2015, the furniture giant Ikea bought 83,000 acres of forest in Romania. Within months, Ikea became, and remains, Romania’s largest private landowner. Activists are risking their lives to save the forest.
Guest:
Alexander Sammon, staff writer at The American Prospect, and former reporter and researcher at The New Republic
Web Resources:
The New Republic: Ikea’s Race for the Last of Europe’s Old-Growth Forest
Mongabay: Ikea faces Swiss complaint over wood believed to have been illegally logged
The American Prospect: A Look Inside Interior
