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Jungle Outlaws: The Chainsaw Trail

Panorama investigates illegal logging in the rainforest and the timber trail from Africa to West Europe.

Panorama investigates illegal logging in the rainforest and the timber trail from Africa to West Europe. It's a lucrative trade from the stump to the checkout - that's leading to the destruction of new swathes of vital rainforest and begins with the loggers who risk their lives cutting down hundred year old trees for just �2.50 a day . Reporter Raphael Rowe spent six months tracking logs from Congo's jungle and discovers that new timber regulations are failing stop illegally-felled wood getting into European stores and on to the consumer.

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