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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
Earthsight files complaints against 31 EU firms following confirmation of Russian wood use by their birch ply suppliers
16.04.2024 Earthsight has filed EUTR complaints pertaining to 31 firms across nine member states whose suppliers were confirmed by the EU to be using Russian wood
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
Taiga King 2: Back In Business
21.02.2022 Russian tycoon Alexander Pudovkin flooded Europe with dirty wood. He and his customers got away with it
Ikea's House of Horrors
15.07.2021 Ikea has for years sold children's furniture made from wood linked to vast illegal logging in protected forests in Russia.
The illegal Russian wood hidden inside Ikea children’s furniture
15.07.2021 A new Earthsight investigation unpacks Ikea's latest illegal timber problem
Europe awash with wood from billion-dollar Russian illegal logging scandal
16.12.2020 Spies. Lies. Lumber. A new Earthsight investigation
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
