Investigation: Thousands of trees illegally felled to build IKEA’s flat pack empire

They’re the largest manufacturer, buyer and retailer of wood on the planet. (Subscribe: ) IKEA’s factories consume more than 20 million cubic meters of wood a year. That works out as roughly one tree every second. The company tells consumers that the wood in its products comes from sustainable forests. But a major investigation by this programme and the environmental organisation Earthsight has discovered that some of the wood that ends up in Ikea’s most popular products has