A new investigation has uncovered widespread illegal logging in the largest Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon and traced exports of illicitly produced rainforest timber to the shores of Europe and the United States.
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 laundered into international supply chains.
EIA and 11 other U.S. civil society organizations urge the European Commission to hold firm against U.S. pressure to delay or weaken the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
Romania’s national timber traceability system is among the best in the world, but it still suffers from widespread fraud and noncompliance. The use of machine learning strategies offers an opportunity to more efficiently and effectively root out some of the common fraud techniques that enable evasion of Romania’s forest protections.
One of Romania’s largest sawmills has seen its ownership passed between three multinational timber companies in the last decade, but one thing that hasn’t changed is its questionable sourcing practices.
New report reveals how between 2020 and 2023, approximately 94% of Colombia’s wood decking and flooring exports appear to have lacked the mandatory certification required to prove legal origin. Many of these exports reached U.S., European and Canadian markets, all with laws that prohibit illegal timber imports.