Press

07.11.2024

EU conservative bloc’s amendments to deforestation law are “a series of loopholes” which would make it “impossible to enforce"

The European People’s Party (EPP) has proposed amendments that would be catastrophic for the landmark law

26.09.2024

Press release: Secret Ingredient

McDonald’s and some of Europe’s leading supermarkets are linked to illegal deforestation, land grabbing and violence in the Brazilian Cerrado

11.04.2024

Press release: European retail giants linked to dirty Brazilian cotton

Fast-fashion retailers linked to illegal deforestation, land grabbing and violence

22.03.2024

Press Release: Cargo ship loaded with €40m of Russian conflict timber seized in Germany

Sanctioned Russian plywood worth an estimated €40 million seized

22.02.2024

Press Release: EU politicians, NGOs demand probe into ethical wood label’s certification of Belarusian penal colonies

Open letter demanding an independent investigation by the FSC into how it came to certify the tainted Belarusian wood and furniture trade

14.09.2023

Press release: EU governments must change course to protect indigenous peoples under planned corporate law

Press release: EU governments must change course to protect indigenous peoples under planned corporate law

16.05.2023

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

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

22.03.2023

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

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

24.02.2023

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

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

25.11.2022

Leading green label and Europe’s biggest furniture retailers linked to torture-stained Belarusian wood trade