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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

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

Criminal law left in limbo as illegal clearances continue in Argentina

17.10.2017 A proposed law that would introduce criminal penalties for illegal deforestation is being deliberately held up by government officials, Greenpeace claims

Cambodian NGO protesting land grab by government senator forced to close

13.10.2017 Equiatable Cambodia was supporting communities engaged in land dispute with a sugarcane company but now temporarily closed

The making of a palm oil fiefdom

11.10.2017 The story of money, power and politics behind the devastation of a forest-rich district in Indonesian Borneo

Introducing: Indonesia for Sale

10.10.2017 The investigative series Indonesia for Sale, launching this week, will shine new light on the corruption behind Indonesia’s deforestation and land rights crisis

Ghana’s outdated forestry laws allow deforestation for ag with impunity, study finds

04.10.2017 Ghana lost 75% of its forest cover between 1900 and 2010, and 2% of its forests continue to disappear every year

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