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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

EU firms buying timber from wanted suspect at centre of $30m Ukrainian bribery case

03.06.2019 A slew of companies are purchasing wood from a supplier owned by the wife of Ukraine’s former forestry chief, even though a criminal case against the couple is ongoing

Bad beef: UK retailers feed illegal deforestation fears as JBS corned beef imports persist

05.05.2019 JBS has faced multiple corruption charges and was fined £6.5m in 2017 for illegal Amazon deforestation yet Sainsbury's, Lidl and Morrisons among supermarkets selling its corned beef

Complicit in Corruption: How billion-dollar firms and EU governments are failing Ukraine's forests

14.07.2018 How billion-dollar firms and EU governments are failing Ukraine's forests

Brazilian man goes on the run, accused of multiple murders - but US timber company still among top customers

26.04.2018 Despite illegal logging record and links to a brutal Amazon massacre, Industrial Pine Products continues to buy the tropical timber

The Coming Storm: Toxic mix of dodgy firms, impunity and collusion threaten Congo's rainforests

12.03.2018 Earthsight report released today documents the destruction of the forests of the Congo Basin for industrial palm oil and rubber plantations

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

Choice Cuts: how European & US BBQs are fuelled by a hidden deforestation crisis in South America

05.07.2017 How European & US BBQs are fuelled by a hidden deforestation crisis in South America

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