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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
Rubber-stamping Repression: Key Findings
25.11.2022
Rubber-stamping Repression
25.11.2022 Europe’s largest furniture retail chains are linked to the forced labour and torture of political prisoners in Belarus
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's House of Horrors
15.07.2021 Ikea has for years sold children's furniture made from wood linked to vast illegal logging in protected forests in Russia.
Untamed Timber
02.02.2021 A new Earthsight report reveals how a Brazilian flooring giant let off the hook by Bolsonaro’s government is now thriving across the US and EU
Flatpacked Forests
23.06.2020 A new Earthsight investigation reveals Ikea's illegal timber problem and the flawed green label behind it
New probe finds EU demand for oak flooring fuelling corruption and violence in Ukraine
19.12.2019 $35m of timber purchased by major EU parquet flooring manufacturers from two Ukraine firms linked to widespread illegal logging, corruption and business malpractices
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
