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Revealed: Timber linked to Russia’s Wagner private army on sale in Europe

16.05.2023 Scandal has implications for new law meant to address EU role in deforestation overseas 

EU risks buying 'illegally produced' Mexican avocados as imports surge 70%

29.01.2020 Criminal groups are “embedded in the entire supply chain” in Michoacán, where violence, extortion and illegal land clearing are rife

Illegal deforestation and child labour are the real horrors at Halloween

29.10.2019 Increasing global appetites for chocolate during the holiday period will benefit a cocoa industry that has failed to reform for two decades

Barclays, HSBC among banks financing “most harmful agribusinesses” with $44bn

16.10.2019 Global Witness report claims more than 300 financial institutions funnelled money into global beef, leather, palm oil and rubber firms linked to deforestation

Cargill dubbed ‘worst company in world’ in damning Mighty Earth report

19.07.2019 US commodities giant given the malign moniker amid tide of illegal deforestation, child labour and environmental abuse allegations across its global supply chains

No respite for Honduras’ protected forests as illegal oil palm continues to advance

14.06.2019 Amid a surge in palm oil exports to Europe, illegal clearing of protected forests in Honduras continues to worsen as authorities fail to crack down on illegal farms and “palm laundering”

Not a single company on track to meet 2020 zero-deforestation deadline

27.03.2019 Forest 500 report shows no palm oil, soy, cattle or timber firm that committed to eliminate deforestation from supply chains by 2020 will meet that goal

The Coming Storm: Toxic mix of dodgy firms, impunity and collusion threaten Congo's rainforests

12.03.2018 Earthsight report released today documents the destruction of the forests of the Congo Basin for industrial palm oil and rubber plantations

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?

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