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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
Robinson Lumber's perilous trade with Peru's Maderera Bozovich
06.01.2020 No US firm imports more high-risk wood from Peru than Robinson Lumber and they continue to buy from a company with a long rap sheet of alleged illegalities
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
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
Hypocrisy and friends in high places in the Republic of Congo
12.03.2018 In an extract from The Coming Storm report, we explore how The Republic of Congo government’s stated aims to reduce deforestation contrast starkly with what is happening on the ground
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?
French firms continue to import high-risk logs from Africa
19.10.2017 Evidence compiled by Earthsight reveals that French companies are importing logs from dictatorships, conflict states and some of the most controversial logging companies
