Ikea

Ikea returns to the center of the storm, after a final investigation by Greenpeace following which the environmental organization launched an unprecedented petition:“Ikea says that the home is the place where everything begins”, but we must prevent “old forests from ending up in our homes”.This is the slogan that revolves around the new collection of signatures of the environmentalist organization, founded on a latter investigation which notes how seven Romanian companies that work and produce furniture for the Swedish multinational appear to obtain their wood from some of the last old-growth forests in Europe, located in the country's Carpathians.These, specifically, are forests that should be particularly protected because not affected by human beings since ancient times, and therefore equipped with characteristics similar to ancient primary forests.Although they are in theory protected by EU legislation, the Romanian forests and their probable exploitati...