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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

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

Grand Theft Chaco II: The Vice Continues

13.10.2021 One year on, failed response from Paraguayan government and leather industry to the scandal demonstrates urgent need for new laws

An Illustrated guide to Europe’s role in Paraguay forest destruction

21.07.2021 Supply chain graphic shows how EU car leather helps fuel the loss of indigenous land in South America

Paraguay's Looted Lands

26.02.2021 How war, trade and dictatorship created the world’s worst deforestation crisis

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


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