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

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

Rubber-stamping Repression

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

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

There Will Be Blood

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Russia's Timber Oligarchs

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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.

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

Ikea's House of Horrors

15.07.2021 The stolen Russian forests being greenwashed into kids' furniture

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

Taiga King

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

Grand Theft Chaco

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