Commercial agriculture was responsible for more than 70 percent of all tropical deforestation, much of it illegal, that occurred between 2000 and 2012, a report from Forest Trends finds. The report, Consumer Goods and Deforestation: An Analysis of the Extent and Nature of Illegality in Forest Conversion for Agriculture and Timber Plantations (158 pages, PDF), found that 49 percent of all tropical deforestation over that period resulted from illegal clearance and agro-conversion, about half of which was done to meet export market demand. The report also found that Brazil and Indonesia account for 75 percent of the tropical forest illegally converted for commercial agriculture worldwide, while the European Union, China, India, Russia, and the United States are among the largest buyers of the estimated $61 billion a year in beef, leather, soy, palm oil, tropical timber, pulp and paper, and plantation wood products produced on land illegally converted from tropical forests. Funded by the U.K. Department for International Development, the report calls on consumer countries to make adherence to existing law and improvements to forest governance a priority in Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programs as well as a condition of donor financing, and to enact and/or enforce demand-side measures to discourage purchases of commodities produced on illegally cleared land.