Malaysian ports are turning a blind eye to the passage of illegally logged timber, fueling a trade that is wrecking Indonesian forests, environmental campaign groups said. A report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and its Indonesian partner organization Telapak gave evidence of Malaysian businessmen boasting of having government licenses to export smuggled ramin, a threatened tree species. "The Malaysian government and timber industry are in a state of denial with their smuggling of illegal timber," EIA President Allan Thornton said in a statement to accompany the report.