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Press release: Blood-stained birch
29.01.2025 Firms admit laundering Russian wood into the EU, in sanctions-busting trade worth over €1.5bn
European Commission proposes year-long delay to crucial supply chain law, threatening 2,300 sq km of forest
02.10.2024 The European Commission wants to refuel the bulldozers
Academic study confirms green labels fall short of requirements set by upcoming EU deforestation law
15.08.2024 Green labels do not fully align with the most important requirements of the EUDR relating to deforestation and legality
Press Release: EU politicians, NGOs demand probe into ethical wood label’s certification of Belarusian penal colonies
22.02.2024 Open letter demanding an independent investigation by the FSC into how it came to certify the tainted Belarusian wood and furniture trade
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
NGO letter: EU Member States urged to properly implement and enforce the EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products
10.07.2023 Civil society organisations urge EU Member States to learn valuable lessons from EUTR and take urgent steps to effectively implement and enforce the new law
Despite landmark law, Europe faces tough test to end role in global forest loss (commentary)
16.05.2023 Success of EU's landmark deforestation law far from assured
Russian mercenaries cash in on Europe’s scramble for African timber
16.05.2023 New evidence reveals an EU timber rush in one of the world’s most fragile nations fuels local instability and bolsters Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
Russian “conflict timber” worth over $400 million bought by Japan since Ukraine invasion
22.03.2023 Imports linked to illegal logging profit oligarchs & Russian gov't
Fresh G7 sanctions fail to stop multibillion-dollar “conflict timber” trade
01.03.2023 New sanctions missed opportunity to prevent cash flows into the pockets of key Putin allies
