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Revealed: Timber linked to Russia’s Wagner private army on sale in Europe

16.05.2023 Scandal has implications for new law meant to address EU role in deforestation overseas 

Russian “conflict timber” worth over $400 million bought by Japan since Ukraine invasion

22.03.2023 Imports linked to illegal logging profit oligarchs & Russian gov't

“Conflict timber” worth over $1bn sold in US since Ukraine invasion

24.02.2023 America’s continued trade in Russian ‘conflict timber is aiding terror in Ukraine and further enriching ultrawealthy Russians close to Putin

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

NGOs urge ‘immediate’ reform at ethical wood label to fight global deforestation

25.10.2021 Open letter signed by environmental and civil society organisations accuses the Forest Stewardship Council of failing to protect forests and indigenous groups

More suspect Amazon beef is US-bound after facilities in deforestation hotspots approved

23.09.2021 Beef sold in the US increasingly likely to be linked to illegal deforestation amid growing exports from Brazilian Amazon states

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