Sure, unless they buy the wood from a third world country where corruption is a major issue and influential people can cut forests down and then sell the wood a

Sure, unless they buy the wood from a third world country where corruption is a major issue and influential people can cut forests down and then sell the wood and use a percentage of that to bribe the authorities. Then the real estate people come and houses get built instead of those forests. That's what happens where I live, anyway...