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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

EU and Ukraine authorities urged to ‘systematically reform’ forest sector

06.07.2020 To end Illegal logging, reform must go beyond national efforts announced so far

Ukraine Prime Minister pledges crackdown on illegal logging after Earthsight exposé

25.06.2020 Government announcement came on same day environment authorities reveal criminal probe started into forestry enterprise linked to Ikea suppliers

Flatpacked Forests

23.06.2020 A new Earthsight investigation reveals Ikea's illegal timber problem and the flawed green label behind it

Earthsight exposes Ikea’s illegal logging links

23.06.2020 Brand’s best-selling chairs made from plundered forests home to some of Europe’s last lynx and bears, a new Earthsight investigation has uncovered

EU firms buying timber from wanted suspect at centre of $30m Ukrainian bribery case

03.06.2019 A slew of companies are purchasing wood from a supplier owned by the wife of Ukraine’s former forestry chief, even though a criminal case against the couple is ongoing

Ukraine PM announces crackdown on illegal logging and timber corruption

18.07.2018 

 Volodymyr Groysman pledges crackdown on rogue operations and appeals to EU for help, in wake of Earthsight investigation

Complicit in Corruption: How billion-dollar firms and EU governments are failing Ukraine's forests

14.07.2018 How billion-dollar firms and EU governments are failing Ukraine's forests

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