Toano, Virginia-based flooring company Lumber Liquidators pleaded guilty on Thursday to importing flooring made from illegally logged timber in eastern Russia. The company has agreed to pay $13.2 million as a financial penalty, the largest ever imposed for illegal timber trafficking. The illegally harvested Mongolian oak came from the habitat for the world’s last Siberian tigers and Amur leopards. As part of the fine, the company will pay $1.23 million to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Fund.
