<div class='node-body'><p>STOCKHOLM - The home furnishing giant Ikea, founded in Sweden in 1943, is facing heavy criticism for the logging and clear-cutting of old-growth forests in the north of Russian Karelia by its wholly owned subsidiary Swedwood.</p>
<p>According to leading environmental organisations, such logging is destroying ancient and unique forests that have a high conservation value.</p>
<p>Wood is by far the primary raw material in Ikea&rsquo;s products. Roughly 60 percent of the products stocked in the multinational&rsquo;s 300 department stores around the world contain wood in any form.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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