Swedish NGO Protect the Forest and the Russian Karelia Regional Nature Conservancy SPOK publicly condemned IKEA Group for logging old-growth forests and other High Conservation Value Forest areas in the two forests the company leased in Russia.12 IKEA Group publicly responded that both forests had been certified by the FSC in 2007

and that it had respected the Russian FSC standard that more narrowly defined old-growth forests than the FSC standards deployed in the West.13 The FSC standard in Russia was adapted to reflect that country’s context