Authorities are tracking down the looters, who are responsible for ecological disasters by cutting down trees.
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00:00 Timber theft is on the rise in French forests and it is causing ecological damage.
00:07 Authorities are tracking down the looters who are responsible for ecological disasters by cutting down trees.
00:15 In the Yvelines region, gendarmes have been investigating wood theft for over a year.
00:21 Originally it was a forest, now there are only a dozen trees left standing and we are facing a loss of several hundred thousand euros on a dozen plots that were victim of these abusive cuts.
00:32 Police suspect that a local logging company was legally hired to cut down trees, but that it's cutting far more than planned, going beyond the authorized zone.
00:42 The stolen trunks are then sold to China, where they are turned into parquet flooring.
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