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Amendments to EUDR could harm EU efforts to block Russian and Belarusian ‘conflict timber’

14.07.2025 Changes could incentivise laundering of wood into the EU

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

Blood-stained birch: Exposing the EU trade in Russian conflict ply

29.01.2025 Firms admit laundering Russian wood into the EU, in sanctions-busting trade worth over €1.5bn

Press release: Blood-stained birch

29.01.2025 Firms admit laundering Russian wood into the EU, in sanctions-busting trade worth over €1.5bn

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

Press Release: Cargo ship loaded with €40m of Russian conflict timber seized in Germany

22.03.2024 Sanctioned Russian plywood worth an estimated €40 million seized

Revealed: Russian oligarchs make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with West

11.03.2022 Putin’s cronies are behind major logging firms and wood exporters

Russia’s timber oligarchs

11.03.2022 Industry titans make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with Western firms

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, FSC actions on Siberia illegal logging scandal are a start. In our climate crisis, they must do much more

06.09.2021 Swedish retail giant and green timber label have moved to address problem of illegal sanitary felling in eastern Russia, but their measures must go further

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