Paraguayan authorities complicit in illegal razing of country’s forests by EU-linked agribusiness

20.06.2022 Documents confirm the extent of illegalities committed by ranches

REVEALED: European leather industry peddling misinformation in bid to escape deforestation-free law

15.06.2022 Leather may remain unregulated under a planned EU law on deforestation-free products as industry associations lobby against its inclusion with worrying signs of potential success

Relying on green labels to address our thirst for products of deforestation would be a disaster

08.11.2021 New EU deforestation law must learn the lessons of the past

Paraguay’s climate pledges mask plans to green light rising deforestation until 2030

05.11.2021 Pledges by Paraguay to slash greenhouse gas emissions and support new initiatives to protect biodiversity ring hollow as it looks willing to accept emissions from deforestation will continue to rise

Grand Theft Chaco II: The Vice Continues

13.10.2021 One year on, failed response from Paraguayan government and leather industry to the scandal demonstrates urgent need for new laws

Short-sighted UK Environment Bill will leave Brazil deforesters unchecked

11.06.2021 Gutting of conservation laws in Brazil could mean suspect commodity imports waved through in UK thanks to glaring weakness in new regulation 

We are at a pivotal moment in the fight to tackle our addiction to the products of forest destruction

20.05.2021 A defining six months ahead to curb tropical deforestation crisis 

The Last Refuge

13.04.2021 Defending the ancestral forests of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode

Paraguay's Looted Lands

26.02.2021 How war, trade and dictatorship created the world’s worst deforestation crisis

Fires detected in Paraguay farms linked to BMW and JLR leather supply

21.10.2020 National emergency declared after devastating blazes sweep the Chaco  

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