Our new investigation reveals wood used in America’s favourite recreational vehicles (RVs) can be traced to the devastation of Borneo’s rainforests.

The RV industry is the largest consumer of tropical wood in the United States, using an average of 500 giant trees every day.

Just three corporations make 86 per cent of the RVs sold in America. Earthsight and Auriga found plywood from deforestation in Indonesia in the supply chains of all three.

This includes the US’s best-selling RV brand, Jayco, whose wood supplies are linked to a project clearing three football pitches of orangutan habitat every day.

RV makers must ban the use of timber from deforestation, and put in place robust traceability systems to ensure all wood is sustainably sourced.