18 MPs and peers from across party lines have called on the UK government to implement a law designed to end the import of commodities grown on illegally deforested land. ⬇️ The world’s forests can’t wait; 8.1 million hectares were lost in 2024. The time to implement this important law is now.

Our latest analysis shows how the Indonesia–EU timber trade is shifting ahead of #EUDR. Companies have been making changes across their business, not just in EU supply chains. The EUDR has the power to shift the baseline of sustainability at a global scale, says our Southeast Asia and Africa Lead.

As #EUDR faces new threats, EU imports of Brazilian Amazon beef surge. 🥩 Imports from Mato Grosso rose 48% 🐄 EU-approved slaughterhouses nearly doubled ⚠️ 1.2m cattle linked to deforestation risk across export states The EUDR is key to ensuring this beef does NOT come with a side of deforestation.

We spoke to @mongabay.com about leather associations lobbying to be exempt from the EUDR, despite major fashion & automotive brands committing to sourcing deforestation-free leather & improving traceability. Keeping leather in the scope of the EUDR helps companies deliver on their own commitments👇

🌳 Global Canopy’s Forest 500 report is out 🌳 It shows that the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) is already shaping company behaviour - before it’s even enforced: ➡️ 14% of companies cite the EUDR ➡️ Traceability reporting is up across 8/9 commodities ➡️ 45 companies say it’s driving action

The EUDR is already having an impact, making Europe's timber trade more sustainable 🪵🌳 We found that companies named in our investigations have taken steps to align with the upcoming regulation, showing that many EU businesses are well prepared for implementation. However... bit.ly/3OBudru

The UK was once a leader in tackling deforestation. Now it’s falling behind. ⏮️ New research shows the UK is failing to keep deforestation-linked timber from Malaysia out of its market. Despite ‘sustainable’ labels from PEFC, forest loss and rights abuses persist. bit.ly/4bIU0a3

EIA and 26 other civil society groups from around the world, including Brazil’s largest Indigenous network, sent an open letter to the European Commission urging it to resist industry pressure and maintain the integrity of the EUDR by keeping leather in the law’s scope.

🚨Industry has been lobbying to remove leather from the EUDR. This would scrap requirements for hides to be deforestation-free, so leather linked to deforestation could continue to enter the EU. We’ve shown that this leather has been linked to forest loss in Brazil & Paraguay 👇 bit.ly/4sLS4Ui

New research from Friends of the Earth, RimbaWatch and @earthsight.bsky.social reveals the grim truth of the Malaysian timber trade. Head to the link in our bio to see the research in full and demand a new law to ensure UK companies protect people and wildlife in their global supply chains.

Alongside 270 other organisations, we're demanding a seat at the table by asking President Von der Leyen to give us the same time she's giving industry leaders. We want a Civil Society Counter-Summit ✊ Organisations can sign the declaration here ➡️ friendsoftheearth.eu/sign-the-dec...

RVs shouldn’t kill orangutans, and RV lovers deserve better than vehicles made with wood from destroyed forests and orangutan habitat. RV companies must do their part to protect rainforests by committing to responsible wood sourcing standards. The latest on our campaign:

EU environmental laws are under attack. Forests keep the air breathable, water clean and the climate stable. Yet powerful industries are pushing to dismantle these protections for short-term profit. Add your voice by signing the petition from #HandsOffNature 👇 handsoffnature.eu#take-action

⚠️ Scrapping the Amazon Soy Moratorium could drive a 30% rise in deforestation by 2045 ⚠️ Leading soy traders exited the agreement in Jan, reopening the market to deforestation-tainted soy. With 70% of Brazil's soy destined for international markets, the EUDR is as important as ever. bit.ly/4qDZBCA

Today, 18 NGOs from Indonesia, Europe & the US urge PEFC to revoke ‘sustainable’ certification from Indonesia’s two worst deforesters. Despite clearing 40,000+ hectares in Borneo since 2021, including orangutan habitat, they can still market their timber as certified sustainable. bit.ly/4rfTLbW

📢 @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/

🚨 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

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

⚠️ 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

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

🚨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...

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.

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...

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

🌎 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

“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.

🚨 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...

🚨 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...

🌳 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. ⬇️

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...

🚨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

🚨 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...

‼️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

Alongside other NGOs, we've challenged 6 false claims by the leather industry to show why leather must stay in the EUDR. Numerous investigations – including our own – show EU leather supply chains linked to deforestation and human rights violations. Read more: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/include...

These are the top 5 US financial giants making the most money from deforestation since the Paris Agreement. Dig into the data: https://gwitness.org/4nLFDp5 We wrote to all the financial institutions featured in the report seeking their comment. For their responses, see the full report.

📢 A new Greenpeace investigation links cattle raised illegally inside an Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon to JBS - the world's largest meatpacker and a major exporter of beef to the EU. Read the investigation ⬇️ bit.ly/4npNSXx

🚨 Brussels is backtracking - again! @ec.europa.eu seeks another delay to the #EUDR, and every second means more forest lost to satisfy European consumption. The EU Parliament & Council MUST reject this proposal and implement the law by the end of 2025. 🔗 www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-de...

Secret Ingredient: A year of inaction⚠️ In September 2024, our investigation linked soy used in feed for chicken sold by McDonald’s and Europe’s leading supermarkets to deforestation, land grabbing, corruption and rights abuses in Brazil’s Cerrado. So, what's happened since?

❓Got questions about the EU Deforestation Regulation❓ Our Policy Lead was part of an informative webinar for journalists - hosted by @mongabay.com - discussing why the #EUDR is important, how it will be enforced and what journalists should consider when covering recent attacks on the law.

WATCH NOW 📺 @francetv.bsky.social's documentary on cotton aired last night, highlighting the findings from our investigation, Fashion Crimes, and exposing how cotton used over the globe by major retail brands is linked to the destruction of Brazil’s Cerrado. 👕🌴 www.france.tv/france-5/sur...

🌿🙌 On Brazil's National Cerrado Day, some good news for the country's second-largest biome. ⬇️ Recent data shows that from August 2024 to July 2025, deforestation rates dropped for the first time in 4 years - by over a fifth. climainfo.org.br/2025/08/07/d...

A new report by Greenpeace is a stark reminder of how IKEA’s enormous appetite for wood to make fast furniture is putting pressure on Europe's most precious forests. 🌳 🪑"IKEA faces a choice: protect these irreplaceable forests or be complicit in their destruction." greenpeace.at/cee-press-hu...

“Women who defend land rights and natural resources against mega-projects face greater risks and are among the most at-risk human rights defenders globally.” Their rights must be protected, and corporations must be held accountable. Read CJC's new briefing 🔗 bit.ly/4gmL2jy