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· Oct 21
Risky Business: EU timber imports linked to destruction of Borneo's forests
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🚨 NEW: Risky Business report with Auriga Nusantara exposes how EU timber imports are linked to the destruction of Borneo's forests.
In 2024, Dutch, Belgian & German firms bought 23,000+ m³ of wood from companies that used timber from cleared forests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6-M...
In 2024, Dutch, Belgian & German firms bought 23,000+ m³ of wood from companies that used timber from cleared forests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6-M...
📢 @eia-news.bsky.social has uncovered a huge illegal logging operation in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory in Pará, northern Brazil
Satellite imagery shows 1200 m³ of illicitly harvested logs piled along roads across the Territory
Read the report ⬇️
eia.org/report/bootleggers-brokers-and-buyers/
Satellite imagery shows 1200 m³ of illicitly harvested logs piled along roads across the Territory
Read the report ⬇️
eia.org/report/bootleggers-brokers-and-buyers/
Bootleggers, Brokers, and Buyers - EIA
A new investigative report from EIA documents a major illegal logging operation in Munduruku Indigenous Territory, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, and shows how illegal timber from the region is...
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January 22, 2026 at 12:02 PM
📢 @eia-news.bsky.social has uncovered a huge illegal logging operation in the Munduruku Indigenous Territory in Pará, northern Brazil
Satellite imagery shows 1200 m³ of illicitly harvested logs piled along roads across the Territory
Read the report ⬇️
eia.org/report/bootleggers-brokers-and-buyers/
Satellite imagery shows 1200 m³ of illicitly harvested logs piled along roads across the Territory
Read the report ⬇️
eia.org/report/bootleggers-brokers-and-buyers/
🚨 BREAKING: A report from UK intelligence chiefs on national security and biodiversity loss has concluded: “Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity.”
Read the UK NGO Forest Coalition's response here: bit.ly/4bKzGW7
Read the UK NGO Forest Coalition's response here: bit.ly/4bKzGW7
Our response to the UK government’s National security assessment on global ecosystems.
The UK government’s national security assessment released yesterday underscores a stark reality: accelerating nature loss is not just an environmental issue, it is a foundational threat to global s…
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January 21, 2026 at 6:04 PM
🚨 BREAKING: A report from UK intelligence chiefs on national security and biodiversity loss has concluded: “Global ecosystem degradation and collapse threaten UK national security and prosperity.”
Read the UK NGO Forest Coalition's response here: bit.ly/4bKzGW7
Read the UK NGO Forest Coalition's response here: bit.ly/4bKzGW7
Timber company PT Mayawana Persada – the worst deforester in Indonesia’s plantation sector in recent years – has been granted a ‘sustainable’ label under the global wood certification scheme #PEFC
We’re calling on PEFC to revoke the certification and improve their standards to stop greenwashing
We’re calling on PEFC to revoke the certification and improve their standards to stop greenwashing
January 16, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Timber company PT Mayawana Persada – the worst deforester in Indonesia’s plantation sector in recent years – has been granted a ‘sustainable’ label under the global wood certification scheme #PEFC
We’re calling on PEFC to revoke the certification and improve their standards to stop greenwashing
We’re calling on PEFC to revoke the certification and improve their standards to stop greenwashing
⚠️ Polish authorities have detained people accused of importing Russian & Belarusian plywood in violation of EU sanctions, and they are now facing charges of up to 30 years.
Read more: 24brussels.online/top-stories/...
Image credit: Polish Ministry of Finance – National Revenue Administration
Read more: 24brussels.online/top-stories/...
Image credit: Polish Ministry of Finance – National Revenue Administration
January 7, 2026 at 11:01 AM
⚠️ Polish authorities have detained people accused of importing Russian & Belarusian plywood in violation of EU sanctions, and they are now facing charges of up to 30 years.
Read more: 24brussels.online/top-stories/...
Image credit: Polish Ministry of Finance – National Revenue Administration
Read more: 24brussels.online/top-stories/...
Image credit: Polish Ministry of Finance – National Revenue Administration
JOB ALERT📢
We’re hiring 2 researchers/campaigners in our Latin America & Southeast Asia/Africa teams to work on cutting-edge investigations exposing environmental and social crime.
Apply if you have research experience, strong analysis and writing skills ⬇️ www.charityjob.co.uk/organisation...
We’re hiring 2 researchers/campaigners in our Latin America & Southeast Asia/Africa teams to work on cutting-edge investigations exposing environmental and social crime.
Apply if you have research experience, strong analysis and writing skills ⬇️ www.charityjob.co.uk/organisation...
January 6, 2026 at 10:21 AM
JOB ALERT📢
We’re hiring 2 researchers/campaigners in our Latin America & Southeast Asia/Africa teams to work on cutting-edge investigations exposing environmental and social crime.
Apply if you have research experience, strong analysis and writing skills ⬇️ www.charityjob.co.uk/organisation...
We’re hiring 2 researchers/campaigners in our Latin America & Southeast Asia/Africa teams to work on cutting-edge investigations exposing environmental and social crime.
Apply if you have research experience, strong analysis and writing skills ⬇️ www.charityjob.co.uk/organisation...
Our new research has revealed illegal logging of protected virgin forests in a mountainous area within the concession of an Indonesian pulp giant.
The activity, we found, contributed to the deadly landslides and floods in Sumatra late last year. www.earthsight.org.uk/news/sumatra...
The activity, we found, contributed to the deadly landslides and floods in Sumatra late last year. www.earthsight.org.uk/news/sumatra...
New research reveals large-scale illegal logging linked to deadly Sumatra floods
Earthsight and Auriga have found evidence pointing to a specific company as having contributed to the deadly floods in Sumatra in November 2025
www.earthsight.org.uk
January 5, 2026 at 12:19 PM
Our new research has revealed illegal logging of protected virgin forests in a mountainous area within the concession of an Indonesian pulp giant.
The activity, we found, contributed to the deadly landslides and floods in Sumatra late last year. www.earthsight.org.uk/news/sumatra...
The activity, we found, contributed to the deadly landslides and floods in Sumatra late last year. www.earthsight.org.uk/news/sumatra...
On Monday, Marcos Antônio Pereira da Cruz, a vaqueiro (cowboy) contracted by Brazil's environment agency, was killed during an operation to remove illegal cattle from the Apyterewa Indigenous Territory in Pará state.
“Crime bárbaro”, diz Marina Silva sobre assassinato de funcionário do Ibama | CNN Brasil
Vítima sofreu emboscada e foi morta a tiros durante operação de desintrusão na Terra Indígena Apyterewa, no sudeste do Pará.
www.cnnbrasil.com.br
December 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM
On Monday, Marcos Antônio Pereira da Cruz, a vaqueiro (cowboy) contracted by Brazil's environment agency, was killed during an operation to remove illegal cattle from the Apyterewa Indigenous Territory in Pará state.
🎄As Europeans decorate their Christmas trees, the EU Parliament has passed amendments to delay and weaken the EU Deforestation Regulation, threatening thousands of hectares of forests.
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
🎄As Europeans decorate their Christmas trees, the EU Parliament has passed amendments to delay and weaken the EU Deforestation Regulation, threatening thousands of hectares of forests.
Our research into one of Indonesia’s worst deforesters becoming PEFC certified - despite years of documented environmental harm - was covered this week by @mongabay.com.
Read the full article here 🔗 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/gree...
Read the full article here 🔗 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/gree...
Green labeler PEFC under fire for certifying Indonesian firm clearing orangutan habitat
JAKARTA — A major global forestry certification body is under scrutiny for endorsing one of Indonesia’s largest recent deforesters, raising concerns that consumers may be misled about the origins of t...
news.mongabay.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Our research into one of Indonesia’s worst deforesters becoming PEFC certified - despite years of documented environmental harm - was covered this week by @mongabay.com.
Read the full article here 🔗 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/gree...
Read the full article here 🔗 news.mongabay.com/2025/12/gree...
Today, the EU parliament passed the first Omnibus Package, weakening the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: delaying it to 2029, covering fewer companies, diluting supply chain monitoring and making justice harder to access. #CSDDD
December 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Today, the EU parliament passed the first Omnibus Package, weakening the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: delaying it to 2029, covering fewer companies, diluting supply chain monitoring and making justice harder to access. #CSDDD
Indonesia’s #2 deforester has been granted a ‘sustainable’ label under PEFC despite clearing almost 22,000 hectares of rainforest between 2016 and 2022, including orangutan habitat.
This isn’t forest protection. It’s greenwashing. ♻️
www.earthsight.org.uk/news/pefc-pa...
This isn’t forest protection. It’s greenwashing. ♻️
www.earthsight.org.uk/news/pefc-pa...
One of Indonesia's worst deforesters certified as ‘sustainable’
Voluntary certification has time and again failed to protect the world’s forests; only legislation can force companies to prioritise sustainability
www.earthsight.org.uk
December 11, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Indonesia’s #2 deforester has been granted a ‘sustainable’ label under PEFC despite clearing almost 22,000 hectares of rainforest between 2016 and 2022, including orangutan habitat.
This isn’t forest protection. It’s greenwashing. ♻️
www.earthsight.org.uk/news/pefc-pa...
This isn’t forest protection. It’s greenwashing. ♻️
www.earthsight.org.uk/news/pefc-pa...
Our undercover investigation featured on ARD last night, showing how Russian timber reaches the EU – despite sanctions.
EU policymakers need to do more to stamp out this trade, including getting serious about implementing the #EUDR. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
EU policymakers need to do more to stamp out this trade, including getting serious about implementing the #EUDR. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
So gelangt russisches Holz über China in die EU - trotz Sanktionen
Trotz internationaler Sanktionen gelangt weiterhin russisches Birkenholz im großen Stil auf den europäischen Markt - über Umwege über China. Das zeigen SWR-Recherchen. Eine Spur führt zu einem deutsch...
www.tagesschau.de
December 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Our undercover investigation featured on ARD last night, showing how Russian timber reaches the EU – despite sanctions.
EU policymakers need to do more to stamp out this trade, including getting serious about implementing the #EUDR. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
EU policymakers need to do more to stamp out this trade, including getting serious about implementing the #EUDR. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...
🚨The EU Parliament has voted to water down the EU Deforestation Regulation and delay it by another year.
The changes let large retailers off the hook for selling goods linked to deforestation and create a loophole for small European farmers and foresters. www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-pa...
The changes let large retailers off the hook for selling goods linked to deforestation and create a loophole for small European farmers and foresters. www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-pa...
EU Parliament votes to water down and delay vital deforestation law
European Parliament voted for another 12-month postponement to the already-delayed EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), a law which aims to prevent EU consumption from driving forest loss and associate...
www.earthsight.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🚨The EU Parliament has voted to water down the EU Deforestation Regulation and delay it by another year.
The changes let large retailers off the hook for selling goods linked to deforestation and create a loophole for small European farmers and foresters. www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-pa...
The changes let large retailers off the hook for selling goods linked to deforestation and create a loophole for small European farmers and foresters. www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-pa...
This week, the EU Parliament will vote on amendments that could weaken and delay the EUDR, leaving the door wide open for products of deforestation to legally enter EU markets.
‼️We're calling on the EU Parliament to reject attempts to delay or weaken the EUDR and ensure it is fully implemented.
‼️We're calling on the EU Parliament to reject attempts to delay or weaken the EUDR and ensure it is fully implemented.
November 24, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This week, the EU Parliament will vote on amendments that could weaken and delay the EUDR, leaving the door wide open for products of deforestation to legally enter EU markets.
‼️We're calling on the EU Parliament to reject attempts to delay or weaken the EUDR and ensure it is fully implemented.
‼️We're calling on the EU Parliament to reject attempts to delay or weaken the EUDR and ensure it is fully implemented.
EU Member States have supported a move to delay & weaken the EU Deforestation Regulation—in the final days of #COP30. 🌳🪓
The one-year delay alone means deforestation equivalent to emissions from 18 million cars.
Read our reaction: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/council...
The one-year delay alone means deforestation equivalent to emissions from 18 million cars.
Read our reaction: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/council...
Earthsight reaction: EU Council supports delay and weakening of the EUDR
As world leaders gather at COP, EU Member States have agreed to stall and weaken the bloc’s most significant anti-deforestation measure
www.earthsight.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 AM
EU Member States have supported a move to delay & weaken the EU Deforestation Regulation—in the final days of #COP30. 🌳🪓
The one-year delay alone means deforestation equivalent to emissions from 18 million cars.
Read our reaction: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/council...
The one-year delay alone means deforestation equivalent to emissions from 18 million cars.
Read our reaction: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/council...
Our latest report, Risky Business, shows that the #EUDR is urgently needed to prevent the products of environmental destruction - including the bulldozing of orangutan habitat - from continuing to flow into the EU
Covered today in @Forbes
🔗 bit.ly/4r5bwuQ
Covered today in @Forbes
🔗 bit.ly/4r5bwuQ
Europe’s Deforestation Deadlock Puts Business Credibility On The Line
Europe’s delay on its deforestation law risks new ESG liabilities as Borneo timber enters EU supply chains, testing traceability and credibility.
bit.ly
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Our latest report, Risky Business, shows that the #EUDR is urgently needed to prevent the products of environmental destruction - including the bulldozing of orangutan habitat - from continuing to flow into the EU
Covered today in @Forbes
🔗 bit.ly/4r5bwuQ
Covered today in @Forbes
🔗 bit.ly/4r5bwuQ
🌎 COP30 kicks off this week in Brazil
👜 Our recent investigation linked leather used by Coach to illegal cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon in Pará state - the host of the climate talks
See how @thetimes.com covered it this week ⬇️ bit.ly/3WPEcdm
👜 Our recent investigation linked leather used by Coach to illegal cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon in Pará state - the host of the climate talks
See how @thetimes.com covered it this week ⬇️ bit.ly/3WPEcdm
Hip handbag maker Coach ‘linked to Brazilian deforestation’
The brand is alleged to have sourced leather from a tannery linked to deforestation in the part of the country hosting Cop30
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
🌎 COP30 kicks off this week in Brazil
👜 Our recent investigation linked leather used by Coach to illegal cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon in Pará state - the host of the climate talks
See how @thetimes.com covered it this week ⬇️ bit.ly/3WPEcdm
👜 Our recent investigation linked leather used by Coach to illegal cattle ranching in the Brazilian Amazon in Pará state - the host of the climate talks
See how @thetimes.com covered it this week ⬇️ bit.ly/3WPEcdm
“The community depends on the forest. In the past, we were spoilt by nature. Everything we needed was here.”
Our latest report exposes deforestation damaging the livelihoods of local & Indigenous communities in Borneo, who rely on the forest for food, livelihoods, and medicine.
Our latest report exposes deforestation damaging the livelihoods of local & Indigenous communities in Borneo, who rely on the forest for food, livelihoods, and medicine.
November 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“The community depends on the forest. In the past, we were spoilt by nature. Everything we needed was here.”
Our latest report exposes deforestation damaging the livelihoods of local & Indigenous communities in Borneo, who rely on the forest for food, livelihoods, and medicine.
Our latest report exposes deforestation damaging the livelihoods of local & Indigenous communities in Borneo, who rely on the forest for food, livelihoods, and medicine.
🚨 NEW joint statement: EU’s credibility on human rights & climate is on the line.
Ahead of a vote in November that could weaken the #CSDDD, 140+ CSOs urge MEPs to back a strong, fair deal that protects communities & our planet, not corporate interests.
🔗 corporatejustice.org/publications...
Ahead of a vote in November that could weaken the #CSDDD, 140+ CSOs urge MEPs to back a strong, fair deal that protects communities & our planet, not corporate interests.
🔗 corporatejustice.org/publications...
October 31, 2025 at 8:57 AM
🚨 NEW joint statement: EU’s credibility on human rights & climate is on the line.
Ahead of a vote in November that could weaken the #CSDDD, 140+ CSOs urge MEPs to back a strong, fair deal that protects communities & our planet, not corporate interests.
🔗 corporatejustice.org/publications...
Ahead of a vote in November that could weaken the #CSDDD, 140+ CSOs urge MEPs to back a strong, fair deal that protects communities & our planet, not corporate interests.
🔗 corporatejustice.org/publications...
🚨 The EU Commission calls it “targeted measures” – we call it a targeted weakening of the #EUDR.
Despite the proposed loopholes to weaken the law’s requirements in response to industry lobbying, lobby groups continue to clamour for more.
Our reaction 👇 www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-si...
Despite the proposed loopholes to weaken the law’s requirements in response to industry lobbying, lobby groups continue to clamour for more.
Our reaction 👇 www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-si...
Proposals to ‘simplify’ the EUDR give retailers and EU producers a free pass
Despite the Commission proposing loopholes that soften the EUDR, lobby groups continue to clamour for more
www.earthsight.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:39 PM
🚨 The EU Commission calls it “targeted measures” – we call it a targeted weakening of the #EUDR.
Despite the proposed loopholes to weaken the law’s requirements in response to industry lobbying, lobby groups continue to clamour for more.
Our reaction 👇 www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-si...
Despite the proposed loopholes to weaken the law’s requirements in response to industry lobbying, lobby groups continue to clamour for more.
Our reaction 👇 www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-si...
🌳 Borneo’s forests are home to wildlife found nowhere else — orangutans, proboscis monkeys & dozens of unique birds.
Our Risky Business report reveals how timber from bulldozed forests in Indonesia is connected to the supply chains of EU companies importing plywood, decking, and door frames.
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Our Risky Business report reveals how timber from bulldozed forests in Indonesia is connected to the supply chains of EU companies importing plywood, decking, and door frames.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🌳 Borneo’s forests are home to wildlife found nowhere else — orangutans, proboscis monkeys & dozens of unique birds.
Our Risky Business report reveals how timber from bulldozed forests in Indonesia is connected to the supply chains of EU companies importing plywood, decking, and door frames.
⬇️
Our Risky Business report reveals how timber from bulldozed forests in Indonesia is connected to the supply chains of EU companies importing plywood, decking, and door frames.
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Intact Forest Landscape in Indonesian Papua is lost 8 times faster in FSC-certified logging concessions than uncertified concessions.❗
⚠️ A vote at this week's @FSC_IC General Assembly could make this worse.
Read more: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/fsc-int...
⚠️ A vote at this week's @FSC_IC General Assembly could make this worse.
Read more: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/fsc-int...
FSC’s Orwellian answer to Intact Forest Landscapes
A vote this week could allow logging companies carrying the FSC ‘green label’ to destroy precious ‘Intact Forest Landscapes’ (IFLs) currently protected by the scheme’s rules
www.earthsight.org.uk
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Intact Forest Landscape in Indonesian Papua is lost 8 times faster in FSC-certified logging concessions than uncertified concessions.❗
⚠️ A vote at this week's @FSC_IC General Assembly could make this worse.
Read more: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/fsc-int...
⚠️ A vote at this week's @FSC_IC General Assembly could make this worse.
Read more: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/fsc-int...
🚨FSC is facing its “last call” to tackle a billion-dollar fraud crisis
Our new analysis suggests that $10-$30bn of fraudulently certified goods are being sold each year
bit.ly/4htSCt6
Our new analysis suggests that $10-$30bn of fraudulently certified goods are being sold each year
bit.ly/4htSCt6
Will FSC act on the billion-dollar fraud at its heart?
Crucial vote at key conference next week will determine future of world’s largest green label
bit.ly
October 24, 2025 at 11:43 AM
🚨FSC is facing its “last call” to tackle a billion-dollar fraud crisis
Our new analysis suggests that $10-$30bn of fraudulently certified goods are being sold each year
bit.ly/4htSCt6
Our new analysis suggests that $10-$30bn of fraudulently certified goods are being sold each year
bit.ly/4htSCt6
🚨 NEW: Risky Business report with Auriga Nusantara exposes how EU timber imports are linked to the destruction of Borneo's forests.
In 2024, Dutch, Belgian & German firms bought 23,000+ m³ of wood from companies that used timber from cleared forests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6-M...
In 2024, Dutch, Belgian & German firms bought 23,000+ m³ of wood from companies that used timber from cleared forests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6-M...
Risky Business: EU timber imports linked to destruction of Borneo's forests
YouTube video by Earthsight
www.youtube.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
🚨 NEW: Risky Business report with Auriga Nusantara exposes how EU timber imports are linked to the destruction of Borneo's forests.
In 2024, Dutch, Belgian & German firms bought 23,000+ m³ of wood from companies that used timber from cleared forests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6-M...
In 2024, Dutch, Belgian & German firms bought 23,000+ m³ of wood from companies that used timber from cleared forests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6-M...
‼️A new report from @hrw.org finds JBS's direct suppliers source cattle from ranches illegally encroaching on the Terra Nossa settlement and Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon, Pará state.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/15/brazil-illegal-ranches-devastate-rainforest-livelihoods
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/15/brazil-illegal-ranches-devastate-rainforest-livelihoods
Brazil: Illegal Ranches Devastate Rainforest, Livelihoods
Illegal cattle ranching has devastated the territories of small farmers and Indigenous peoples in Pará, the state that will hold the COP30 climate summit this year.
www.hrw.org
October 20, 2025 at 11:17 AM
‼️A new report from @hrw.org finds JBS's direct suppliers source cattle from ranches illegally encroaching on the Terra Nossa settlement and Cachoeira Seca Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon, Pará state.
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/15/brazil-illegal-ranches-devastate-rainforest-livelihoods
www.hrw.org/news/2025/10/15/brazil-illegal-ranches-devastate-rainforest-livelihoods