Press

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

29.09.2022

REVEALED: US home stores flooded with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of wood flooring from scandal-wracked Brazilian firm

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19.08.2022

Soy supplied to Europe by agribusiness giants linked to indigenous land theft and murder in Brazil

Supply chains tainted by rights abuses

11.05.2022

Supermarkets, fast food restaurants and pet food in Europe linked to indigenous rights abuses in Brazil

Earthsight unpacked the supply chains of European retailers

11.03.2022

Revealed: Russian oligarchs make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with West

Putin’s cronies are behind major logging firms and wood exporters