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

What a way to start the week – we’ve just received a copy in the post of @nytimes.com featuring our investigation on the front page! Despite high-profile coverage exposing how its demand for wood is fueling the destruction of Borneo’s rainforests, the US RV industry remains silent. 🤐

🗣️ One week until submissions close! Have your say on the future of EU environmental laws until 10 September⬇️

📢 Good news for the Amazon! Last week, a judge suspended Brazil's competition authority's (CADE) decision ordering grain traders to halt the Amazon Soy Moratorium - the most effective voluntary conservation measure in recent decades apnews.com/article/braz...

Yesterday, Brazil's environment authority took action to crack down on illegal cattle ranching - the same day our report revealed US imports of Brazilian beef are increasingly driving deforestation. Read Bloomberg's coverage of our investigation ⬇️

REVEALED: Nearly 1/4 of Brazilian beef consumed in the US comes from high-risk slaughterhouses in the Amazon. 📈 The Amazonian state of Rondônia has shipped over 34,500 tonnes of beef to the US since 2023 – enough to make 308 million burgers. 🍔 www.earthsight.org.uk/news/exposed...

We've signed onto a statement as part of the Corporate Justice Coalition calling for legal consequences for companies involved in human rights violations against the Palestinian people. We believe that businesses should be held to account when their actions contribute to atrocities. bit.ly/4n6W3HY

🌲Our Timber, Sanctions and Northern Forests Lead has been quoted in @thetimes.com, talking about how laundered Russian wood is being used to build homes in the UK, right under the authorities' noses. Read the story ⬇️ www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

The EU Commission has opened a call for evidence (closing on 10th September) that could roll back vital environmental laws – including the #EUDR – which is key to tackling global deforestation. 📢 You can have your say here ➡️ www.earthsight.org.uk/eu-environme... @wwf.eu @ec.europa.eu

The hidden environmental cost of America’s RV industry 👇 🌳 An estimated 500 rainforest trees are lost daily 🦧 Top-selling brand Jayco is linked to the destruction of orangutan habitat 📍Our latest investigation uncovers how RVs drive deforestation: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/unhappy...

🌲🚐 Our new investigation reveals how America’s RVs are driving rainforest destruction in Indonesia. 🔗 earthsight.org.uk/news/unhappy... 🪵500 rainforest trees destroyed every day. 🦧Orangutan habitat bulldozed. This is what "sustainability" looks like in the RV industry 👇

Kudos to @earthsight.bsky.social and @mightyearth.org for the research behind this NYT exposé showing how global demand—like for RVs—is fuelling deforestation in Borneo. It's a stark reminder of all that is at stake if we don't demand better supply-chain rules and transparency

American demand for tropical wood used in motor homes is accelerating the disappearance of some of the world’s largest forests, conservationists say.

🚨 In an enormous blow to the Amazon, Brazil's regulator has played into the hands of greedy agribusinesses and ordered the suspension of the Soy Moratorium. 🚨 Traders have just 10 days to comply or risk penalties. bit.ly/4oPyGV0

After months of research and collaboration, I'm so pleased to share this article in @nytimes.com, featuring new research by @earthsight.bsky.social. The story exposes the links between the US RV industry and the devastation of Borneo's rainforests. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/w...

On #WorldOrangutanDay in @nytimes.com – How America's RV industry is destroying Indonesia's rainforests. Our new investigation reveals wood used in America’s favourite RVs can be traced to the devastation of Borneo’s rainforests. Read more 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/w...

PSA: 📢 Coach's leather suppliers have been linked to the destruction of the Amazon rainforest ‼️ We're seeing stories about a so-called 'Coach bag Renaissance' - from Anne Hathaway to Carrie Bradshaw to Gen Z - Coach handbags are making a resurgence. 🔗 www.marieclaire.com/fashion/anne...

📢 A new op-ed in the EU Observer by our Northern Forests, Timber, and Sanctions Lead, shows how weakening the #EUDR could make it easier to launder illegal Russian and Belarusian timber into Europe. 👇