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Flatpacked Forests

23.06.2020 A new Earthsight investigation reveals Ikea's illegal timber problem and the flawed green label behind it

UK military beef supplier linked to illegal deforestation in Brazil

28.04.2020 Earthsight research reveals how a Brazilian beef supplier used by the Ministry of Defence buys from farmers guilty of illegal deforestation, fires and fraud

Robinson Lumber's perilous trade with Peru's Maderera Bozovich

06.01.2020 No US firm imports more high-risk wood from Peru than Robinson Lumber and they continue to buy from a company with a long rap sheet of alleged illegalities

New probe finds EU demand for oak flooring fuelling corruption and violence in Ukraine

19.12.2019 $35m of timber purchased by major EU parquet flooring manufacturers from two Ukraine firms linked to widespread illegal logging, corruption and business malpractices

Saving Aru: The epic battle to save the islands that inspired the theory of evolution

09.10.2019 The epic battle to save the islands that inspired the theory of evolution

British troops fed by corrupt Brazilian meat firm tied to illegal Amazon deforestation

17.09.2019 Ration packs used by armed forces have contained beef and chicken from JBS since 2009 and until at least 2016, new Earthsight research finds

African timber from firms linked to bribery, conflict and illegal logging floods into France

05.07.2019  Six years after EU law introduced to curb illegal timber imports, the trade in suspect wood from Africa continues as French authorities fail to act

Are KitKat sales helping line the pockets of a man who bribed Indonesia’s top judge?

05.07.2019 Purchases in Malaysia by Wilmar, the world’s largest palm oil trader, are helping fund deforestation in neighbouring Indonesia, to the benefit of a criminal businessman

EU firms buying timber from wanted suspect at centre of $30m Ukrainian bribery case

03.06.2019 A slew of companies are purchasing wood from a supplier owned by the wife of Ukraine’s former forestry chief, even though a criminal case against the couple is ongoing

Bad beef: UK retailers feed illegal deforestation fears as JBS corned beef imports persist

05.05.2019 JBS has faced multiple corruption charges and was fined £6.5m in 2017 for illegal Amazon deforestation yet Sainsbury's, Lidl and Morrisons among supermarkets selling its corned beef

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