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A quarter of Brazil’s new congress tainted by campaign donations from illegal deforesters
04.03.2019 A new Repórter Brasil investigations finds illegal land clearers and parties linked to slave labour backed congress members
A Roadmap to Failure
07.02.2019 Why the EU’s action plan on deforestation must be beefed up to be effective
Corruption and land trafficking in Peru’s Ucayali leading to deforestation for rice and palm
18.01.2019 Local officials in the Amazon region arrested over links to land trafficking and illicit plantation deals
Global markets help sustain political power of agribusiness lobby in Brazil’s congress
25.09.2018 A damning report by Amazon Watch has shed light on the commercial links between European and US companies and agribusinesses in Brazil connected to illegalities
EU urged to regulate to stem deforestation in cocoa industry
13.07.2018 MEPs and NGOs urged the European Union to regulate to stem deforestation in the cocoa industry after the failure of voluntary measures
Asian governments backing deforestation in Gabon and Cameroon
22.03.2018 An extract from Earthsight's The Coming Storm report exposes the connections between the Singaporean and Chinese governments and two of the projects which have cleared the most forest to-date
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
Illegal clearance under the guise of old projects, as opacity reigns in DRC
12.03.2018 While no major green-field projects are known to have broken ground, our research indicates that illegal clearance of natural forest is occurring under the guise of projects to re-develop abandoned plantations
