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

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

More suspect Amazon beef is US-bound after facilities in deforestation hotspots approved

23.09.2021 Beef sold in the US increasingly likely to be linked to illegal deforestation amid growing exports from Brazilian Amazon states

The illegal Russian wood hidden inside Ikea children’s furniture

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

Agribusiness lobby seeking to tame planned UK imported deforestation law

25.05.2021 Trade bodies for global beef, soy and palm oil firms fail to support strong supply chain regulation

Impunity for German car giants assured after ethical supply chain law gutted

23.02.2021 German Cabinet set to approve “toothless” law that fails forests and indigenous peoples


US firms bet big on risky Brazilian timber imports after a helping hand from Bolsonaro

02.02.2021 Earthsight's Untamed Timber report details how a Brazilian flooring giant was let off the hook by authorities and is now thriving across the US and EU

Taiga King: Russian court lets off timber tycoon who admitted bribes

23.12.2020 BM Group chief Alexander Pudovkin walks free after case dismissed

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