Action against Illegal Timber on MV Byisk in Japan

Greenpeace activists did an action in Toyama that lasted three days during which they followed a ship laden with Russian logs. The cargo of the ship was spruce from the Primorsky region in Russia's Far East. Greenpeace traced illegal logs to the port of Plastun where the ship loaded its cargo. Greenpeace conducted an undercover investigation and released a report which concluded that appoximately 20% of the Russian logs had been harvested illegally. In the image, activist chained onto logs on board of Russian "Byisk".