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EU Commission, Parliament respond to ‘blood birch’ scandal – now the Council must act
16.05.2025 Wood sanctions must be expanded to tackle the oligarch-linked trade
Press release: Blood-stained birch
29.01.2025 Firms admit laundering Russian wood into the EU, in sanctions-busting trade worth over €1.5bn
EU finally bans torture-stained Belarusian furniture trade
15.07.2024 The decision will shut down a supply chain long marred by human rights abuses and torture
Press Release: Cargo ship loaded with €40m of Russian conflict timber seized in Germany
22.03.2024 Sanctioned Russian plywood worth an estimated €40 million seized
The Belarusian furniture industry is the backbone of Lukashenko’s regime. So why hasn’t the EU sanctioned it yet?
19.10.2023 Demanding Belarusian sanctions
Revealed: Russian oligarchs make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with West
11.03.2022 Putin’s cronies are behind major logging firms and wood exporters
Russia’s timber oligarchs
11.03.2022 Industry titans make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with Western firms
Impunity for German car giants assured after ethical supply chain law gutted
23.02.2021 German Cabinet set to approve “toothless” law that fails forests and indigenous peoples
Europe awash with wood from billion-dollar Russian illegal logging scandal
16.12.2020 Spies. Lies. Lumber. A new Earthsight investigation
