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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
Russia’s timber oligarchs
11.03.2022 Industry titans make a killing off multibillion-dollar wood trade with Western firms
Taiga King 2: Back In Business
21.02.2022 Russian tycoon Alexander Pudovkin flooded Europe with dirty wood. He and his customers got away with it
Suspect timber firms lobby for certified wood ‘green lane’ in draft EU anti-deforestation law
09.11.2021 Influential timber industry group run by firms guilty of logging and wood trading abuses calls for proposed EU rules to wave through wood certified by dubious sustainability schemes
Relying on green labels to address our thirst for products of deforestation would be a disaster
08.11.2021 New EU deforestation law must learn the lessons of the past
FSC hall of shame: The ethical wood label’s long line of scandals
25.10.2021 The Forest Stewardship Council label is supposed to guarantee products are sustainably sourced, sadly it is not always the case
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
Open letter: FSC is no longer fit for purpose and must urgently reform
25.10.2021 NGOs and civil society groups urge the ethical wood label to instigate serious change of its practices
Ikea, FSC actions on Siberia illegal logging scandal are a start. In our climate crisis, they must do much more
06.09.2021 Swedish retail giant and green timber label have moved to address problem of illegal sanitary felling in eastern Russia, but their measures must go further
Ikea's House of Horrors
15.07.2021 Ikea has for years sold children's furniture made from wood linked to vast illegal logging in protected forests in Russia.
