In an article reporting on the arrest of a timber smuggling network, The Telegraph (India) quotes a villager who explains the impact that illegal logging has made.
“Till 1995, sunlight could barely penetrate these reserve forests. Now one has to search quite a bit for a patch of shade,” said a villager in Langting.

Illegal logging [...]

From the BBC:
The Brazilian government has announced a huge rise in the rate of Amazon deforestation, months after celebrating its success in achieving a reduction.
In the last five months of 2007, 3,235 sq km (1,250 sq miles) were lost.
Gilberto Camara, of INPE, an institute that provides satellite imaging of the area, said [...]

From the New York Times:
In the United States, forests are not being illegally logged on a systemic scale, as is the case in countries like Indonesia, Malawi and Brazil, where unauthorized harvesting has led to serious deforestation and attendant environmental problems. Here, the issue is often scattered and intimate, and often affects homeowners, parks [...]

The International Herald Tribune is reporting on the trade in illegal logging in Indonesia.
Illegal logging is commonplace in Indonesia, and though the government has prosecuted dozens of cases in recent years, it admits it cannot be everywhere.

The article mentions that the illegal logging trade is able to continue in Indonesia due to the rampant corruption [...]