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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

Cameroon women denounce "destruction" of forests and community by agribusiness giants

01.04.2020 Local women fight back against controversial palm oil, rubber firms accused of destroying community way of life and responsible for widespread deforestation 

The decline of monarch butterflies in Mexico shows need for greater forest protections

01.04.2020 Deforestation is a possible contributing factor to the drop

Indirect supply chains pose major deforestation risk for global cocoa industry

26.03.2020 Study emphasises threats major firms face in not having a full picture of suppliers

Norwegian wealth fund divests from Alicorp over palm oil-linked destruction in Peruvian Amazon

10.03.2020 Alicorp purchased palm oil from the Ocho Sur plantation where a reported 7,000ha of forest was destroyed and indigenous communities displaced

Feronia guard reportedly acquitted of Congolese activist’s murder

17.02.2020 Local rights group “shocked and outraged" after court dismisses charges against employee

Critics round on Bolivia authorities for prioritising agribusiness over deforestation crisis

31.01.2020 New legislation in Santa Cruz and Beni could see millions of hectares of forest destroyed for agribusiness

UK-based Equatorial Palm Oil under fire for alleged malpractice in Liberia

31.01.2020 Report calls for due diligence law to monitor UK-registered firms operating overseas

EU risks buying 'illegally produced' Mexican avocados as imports surge 70%

29.01.2020 Criminal groups are “embedded in the entire supply chain” in Michoacán, where violence, extortion and illegal land clearing are rife

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