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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

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

The illegal Russian wood hidden inside Ikea children’s furniture

15.07.2021 A new Earthsight investigation unpacks Ikea's latest illegal timber problem

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