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Timber imports linked to Malaysian deforestation show UK falling behind in efforts to protect forests

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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

Ikea’s response to its illegal timber scandal is a sham. Here's why

29.10.2020 Feeble response shows a frightening lack of leadership in tackling illegal deforestation 

Flatpacked Forests

23.06.2020 A new Earthsight investigation reveals Ikea's illegal timber problem and the flawed green label behind it

Earthsight exposes Ikea’s illegal logging links

23.06.2020 Brand’s best-selling chairs made from plundered forests home to some of Europe’s last lynx and bears, a new Earthsight investigation has uncovered

NGOs allege Malaysian palm oil labour abuses violate US law, while EU legislation falls short

02.09.2019 Legal complaint targets Proctor & Gamble’s purchases from Felda Global Ventures and acknowledges global buyers from same plantations, but similar cases not possible in Europe

Top US plywood importer in league with one of the world's dirtiest timber companies

19.10.2017 Products made from the rainforests of Malaysian Borneo, supplied by a firm known to have bulldozed intact forests, abused indigenous people and propped up the regime of a billionaire kleptocrat

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