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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
Pressure mounts on US, EU to probe Brazilian timber imports
15.02.2021 Calls for action grow in the wake of Earthsight's Untamed Timber report
US firms bet big on risky Brazilian timber imports after a helping hand from Bolsonaro
02.02.2021 Earthsight's Untamed Timber report details how a Brazilian flooring giant was let off the hook by authorities and is now thriving across the US and EU
Untamed Timber
02.02.2021 A new Earthsight report reveals how a Brazilian flooring giant let off the hook by Bolsonaro’s government is now thriving across the US and EU
African timber from firms linked to bribery, conflict and illegal logging floods into France
05.07.2019 Six years after EU law introduced to curb illegal timber imports, the trade in suspect wood from Africa continues as French authorities fail to act
Brazilian man goes on the run, accused of multiple murders - but US timber company still among top customers
26.04.2018 Despite illegal logging record and links to a brutal Amazon massacre, Industrial Pine Products continues to buy the tropical timber
Luxury US yachts being supplied with suspect Burmese teak
19.10.2017 There is rampant illegality and corruption in the logging industry in Myanmar. So why do two US firms continue to import large quantities of teak?
French firms continue to import high-risk logs from Africa
19.10.2017 Evidence compiled by Earthsight reveals that French companies are importing logs from dictatorships, conflict states and some of the most controversial logging companies
