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Putin-linked private army joins EU timber rush in Africa

16.05.2023 The trade fuels local instability and bolsters Russia's invasion of Ukraine

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Russian “conflict timber” worth over $1bn sold in the US

24.02.2023 US timber trade helps fund Russian aggression and further enrich powerful oligarchs

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Rubber-stamping Repression

25.11.2022 How EU governments and a global green label made European furniture buyers complicit in torture

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The Fixers

29.09.2022 How a failing US law allowed a Brazilian flooring giant to flood the country with millions of dollars of suspect wood

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There Will Be Blood

11.05.2022 The ugly truth behind cheap chicken

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Analysis

Russia's Timber Oligarchs

12.04.2022 Industry titans make a killing off wood trade with Western firms

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Taiga King 2

21.02.2022 A Russian tycoon flooded Europe with dirty wood. He and his customers got away with it.

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Analysis

Grand Theft Chaco II

13.10.2021 One year on, inaction from Paraguayan authorities and leather industry to the scandal shows urgent need for new laws

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Ikea's House of Horrors

15.07.2021 The stolen Russian forests being greenwashed into kids' furniture

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Untamed Timber

02.02.2021 The Brazilian flooring giant let off the hook by Bolsonaro's government and now thriving across the US and EU

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Taiga King

16.12.2020 How European firms fed a Russian tycoon's billion-dollar illegal logging scam

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Grand Theft Chaco

30.09.2020 Luxury cars made with leather from the stolen lands of an uncontacted tribe

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