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Illegal lumberyard operation

Logs roll into this Malaysian plywood mill, but it’s a slim harvest these days: Most of the older, larger trees are already long gone.

Looking elsewhere to fill demand, a number of Malaysian mills process illegal timber from other parts of Borneo, where corrupt officials take payoffs from loggers, turning forests into personal money trees.

Miri, Sarawak, Borneo.