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What Europe’s designer handbags are costing the Amazon rainforest
24.06.2025 What Europe’s designer handbags are costing the Amazon rainforest
Political parties undermining forest protection law have received donations linked to illegal deforestation
12.11.2024 The EUDR is under threat
Executive Summary: Fashion Crimes
11.04.2024 World’s largest fashion brands use cotton linked to land grabbing, illegal deforestation, violence, human rights violations and corruption in Brazil
Fashion Crimes
11.04.2024 The European retail giants linked to dirty Brazilian cotton
Leading German sports retailer linked to rights abuses overseas, as German government looks set to kill EU ethical supply chain law
06.02.2024 CSDDD under threat from lobbying by German industry associations
Some – but not all – Russian conflict timber imports banned in US
27.11.2023 The US Treasury Department has banned one of the largest and most controversial suppliers of Russian conflict plywood
Imports of Russian ‘’conflict timber’’ for US kitchens linked to logging in ancient virgin forests
20.09.2023 US firms continue to purchase plywood from Russian companies
Russian mercenaries cash in on Europe’s scramble for African timber
16.05.2023 New evidence reveals an EU timber rush in one of the world’s most fragile nations fuels local instability and bolsters Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
Rubber-stamping Repression
25.11.2022 Europe’s largest furniture retail chains are linked to the forced labour and torture of political prisoners in Belarus
The Fixers
29.09.2022 In a joint investigation with Mongabay, we reveal how a failing US law allowed a Brazilian flooring giant to flood America with millions of dollars of suspect wood
