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Press release: Blood-stained birch
29.01.2025 Firms admit laundering Russian wood into the EU, in sanctions-busting trade worth over €1.5bn
Earthsight reaction: EU policymakers agree to scrap “disastrous” amendments to deforestation law
04.12.2024 EUDR legislative process has unfolded in dramatic fashion over the past few weeks, only to land back at square one
Press release: EU Parliament votes to dramatically weaken landmark forest law
14.11.2024 EU Parliament has approved amendments to weaken the landmark EUDR
Press release: Political parties undermining landmark forest protection law have received donations linked to illegal deforestation
12.11.2024 Over €1.7 million in deforestation-linked funds donated since 2018
EU conservative bloc’s amendments to deforestation law are “a series of loopholes” which would make it “impossible to enforce"
07.11.2024 The European People’s Party (EPP) has proposed amendments that would be catastrophic for the landmark law
Press release: Secret Ingredient
26.09.2024 McDonald’s and some of Europe’s leading supermarkets are linked to illegal deforestation, land grabbing and violence in the Brazilian Cerrado
Press release: European retail giants linked to dirty Brazilian cotton
11.04.2024 Fast-fashion retailers linked to illegal deforestation, land grabbing and violence
Press Release: Cargo ship loaded with €40m of Russian conflict timber seized in Germany
22.03.2024 Sanctioned Russian plywood worth an estimated €40 million seized
Press Release: EU politicians, NGOs demand probe into ethical wood label’s certification of Belarusian penal colonies
22.02.2024 Open letter demanding an independent investigation by the FSC into how it came to certify the tainted Belarusian wood and furniture trade
Press release: EU governments must change course to protect indigenous peoples under planned corporate law
14.09.2023 Press release: EU governments must change course to protect indigenous peoples under planned corporate law
