The information that Lumber Liquidators is sourcing from suppliers like Xiangjia, which is destroying the Russian Far East’s last old growth hardwood forests and is involved in illegal activities and corruption is unacceptable.
Lumber Liquidators must cut supply chain ties with Xiangjia and adopt and implement a comprehensive procurement policy that ensures your company will never again be involved in destroying old growth and endangered forests, abuse of human rights and run away climate change.
Why is this important?
A new report shows direct ties between hardwood flooring giant Lumber Liquidators, organized crime, and the illegal logging of the habitat of the last 450 Siberian Tigers. This shameless disregard for the last few remaining members of the species in pursuit of cheap flooring is not only disgusting, it's illegal under American law and has prompted a federal investigation.
Lumber Liquidators needs to immediately and irrevocably take action to improve due diligence and bring itself into compliance with the Lacey Act. It must eliminate forest illegality, destruction and human rights violations from its supply chain. Lumber Liquidators must cut supply chain ties with Xingjia, the supplier which is the source of this illegal hardwood, and adopt and implement a comprehensive procurement policy that ensures the company will never again be involved in destroying old growth and endangered forests, abuse of human rights and run away climate change.
