Vast areas of remaining intact forest on four continents have been degraded because of poor enforcement of existing forest protection laws, according to researchers at the Washington-based World Resources Institute...Jim Strittholt, head of Global Forest Watch USA, pointed to a number of companies and banks - such as IKEA, the world's largest home-furnishings company, and ABN Amro, one of Europe's leading banks - that were using the research to ensure that their wood supplies or investments were not promoting deforestation