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REVEALED: Russian “conflict timber” worth over $1bn sold in the US
24.02.2023 Ukrainian activists say America’s business in Russian wood is helping to fuel Putin’s invasion
If it truly aspires to leadership on climate and forests, the US must first break its addiction to the products driving their destruction
08.11.2022 The US has pledged to end deforestation, but it continues to fund destruction overseas via imports of forest-risk commodities
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
Flatpacked Forests
23.06.2020 A new Earthsight investigation reveals Ikea's illegal timber problem and the flawed green label behind it
Indonesian timber auditors to probe allegations of faked permits for $6bn of wood
27.02.2020 In a test for its EU-backed timber legality scheme, auditors investigate allegations that a vast logging and timber operation in Papua is underpinned by fake oil palm permits
Sônia Guajajara: “Agribusiness today really is a plague”
29.11.2019 In an exclusive interview, prominent indigenous leader Sônia Guajajara discusses the threats facing indigenous peoples and Europe’s responsibilities towards conservation in Brazil
