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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🎉 This summer we celebrated a major milestone. We have now spent ten years investigating environmental crime and injustice worldwide and exposing the complicity of Western corporations. Read about our impact in a timeline of our greatest hits ➡️ www.earthsight.org.uk/news/investi...
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10 years of impact: Explore our investigations
This summer marks 10 years since Earthsight began exposing crime and injustice linked to global commodities.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
One year ago, our research exposing how the US RV industry is using Indonesian plywood sourced from the destruction of Borneo's forests was featured in @nytimes.com. But last month, the US exempted Indonesian lauan plywood from a new 10% tariff after lobbying by the RV Industry Association.
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Unhappy Campers: How America's RV industry is destroying Indonesia's rainforests
Our new investigation reveals that wood used in America’s favourite RVs can be traced to the devastation of Borneo’s rainforests
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
How well do certification schemes align (on paper) with the EUDR? A new report analyses 10 voluntary certification schemes against core EUDR requirements, finding that most do not fully align. Certification can provide useful information, but cannot guarantee adherence to the law. Read the report⬇️
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How well do certification scheme requirements align (on paper) with the EU Deforestation Regulation?
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Brazil's Supreme Federal Court will decide the future of the Amazonian Soy Moratorium – the most effective voluntary zero-deforestation agreement.🌳 If abandoned, it could lead to 1.4m extra hectares of Amazon forest loss by 2036.‼️ The ruling has global implications for tackling deforestation.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
📢 A new study from Cornell University & New York University debunks leather tanneries’ claims that their sector has no direct impact on deforestation. Researchers found hides make up 8% of a cow’s value at the slaughterhouse level – which can be instrumental to profitability when margins are tight.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
⚠️High-street fashion brands have once again been exposed for sourcing dirty cotton from Brazil⚠️ Repórter Brasil’s new investigation traces cotton used by factories supplying Gap, adidas and Levi Strauss & Co. to a producer accused of subjecting workers to conditions analogous to slavery.
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Farm linked to slave labor holds sustainability certification and ties to luxury brands - Repórter Brasil
Oscar Luiz Cervi, cited over slave labor at a cotton farm, sells his output to Bunge; the US multinational owns Viterra, a cotton exporter that supplies manufacturers producing for brands including Ga...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 29/07/2026
The collapse of the Amazon Soy Moratorium puts millions of hectares of rainforest at risk of legal clearing, a study warns. Researchers estimate the pact's end could drive 1.4 million hectares of direct deforestation over a decade, releasing carbon equal to Canada's annual emissions.
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End of Brazil’s Soy Moratorium risks millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest: Study
Millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest are newly at risk of being legally deforested, a new study estimates. The potential increase in deforestation comes as soy companies have terminated their…
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🗓️On 21 October 2026, we’re joining the Good Business Matters mass lobby with @corporatejusticeuk.bsky.social to meet MPs and call for a Business, Human Rights & Environment Act that protects people and the environment from corporate-driven harms. Find out more: www.goodbusinessmatters.org/masslobby
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🌳‼️Good news from Brazil: the Amazon recorded its lowest burned area since records began in 1985. In 2025, 3.1 million hectares burned, down from a record-breaking 15.8 million hectares affected in 2024. 📉 🔗 brasil.mapbiomas.org/2026/07/21/a...
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corporatejusticeuk.bsky.social @corporatejusticeuk.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Why should Andy Burnham prioritise corporate justice? Read our letter sent to the new Prime Minister on his first day in office to see why new corporate accountability legislation is closely aligned with some of this Government's key priorties shorturl.at/HkbNX
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CJC welcomes new PM and explains why new corporate accountability...
Yesterday, Monday 20 July, Andy Burnham was sworn in as the new Prime Minister of the UK. Read below the letter CJC and our partners sent to welcome him into office. In it, we explain why action to pr...
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🚨 @ec.europa.eu has released its final changes to the list of products covered by the EU Deforestation Regulation. Leather will no longer be covered by this important supply chain law, despite evidence linking EU leather imports to deforestation. #EUDR 🔗 www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-pr...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 04/07/2026
An @earthsight.bsky.social investigation reveals that wood from a Brazilian logging company repeatedly banned for illegal extraction may have entered the Netherlands. Dutch firms imported the timber via an exporter, sparking calls for strict enforcement of the EU Deforestation Regulation.
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Dutch importers linked to suspect Amazon timber, investigation finds
Two Dutch timber importers are at the center of a new investigation that shows they may have purchased suspect wood sourced to one of the largest logging companies in Brazil, which had temporarily…
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The EU Commission is proposing to add language specifically excluding ‘waste’ palm oil from the scope of the EU Deforestation Regulation, according to a draft leaked last week. This would see more than ¼ of all palm oil imports to the EU from Indonesia and Malaysia exempt from the #EUDR.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Yesterday, Earthsight and @mightyearth.org assembled outside Lineapelle London, a major leather trade fair, to ask tanneries and fashion brands: do you know where your leather comes from? 📢 Brands using leather must demand that all the leather they buy is deforestation-free and legally sourced.‼️🐄
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
‼️The UK Government has announced new regulations aiming to end UK consumption of products grown on illegally deforested land. UK businesses will need to ensure forest-risk commodities they sell are not produced from illegal deforestation.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
‼️🌳 On #WorldRainforestDay, Earthsight, with the support of CCCA, reveals suspect timber from the Amazon continues to flow into Europe Dutch companies Hoogendoorn Hout & Van den Berg Houtgroep have sourced thousands of m3 of timber from an Amazon concession operated by Brazilian firm Samise
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Indonesian paper giant, APRIL, has said it will buy wood fibre from companies that cleared over 47,000 hectares of tropical forest since 2020.🪵 We've joined 22 other NGOs to condemn the decision, calling on them to uphold their sustainability commitments & reject suppliers linked to deforestation.
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Indonesia’s second-biggest pulp and paper producer buying from country’s worst deforesters
APRIL will buy from timber companies which have together cleared more than 47,000 hectares of precious tropical forest since 2020
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
🙌 Over 2000 concerned citizens and organisations from across Europe and beyond raised their voices to urge the EU Commission to keep leather in the EUDR, showing they care about the EU's impact on forests and want to see industries held accountable.✊ www.earthsight.org.uk/news/leather...
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Earthsight submission on the proposal to remove leather from the EU Deforestation Regulation
Over 2000 concerned citizens and organisations from across Europe and beyond raised their voice to urge the EU Commission to keep leather in the EUDR
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
📅 Join us tomorrow at SOAS, where our Latin America Senior Researcher, Lara Shirra White, will be speaking about the importance of consumer country legislation in tackling Amazon deforestation. 👇
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Rainforest Foundation Norway @rainforestnorway.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Strong EU Deforestation Regulation = traceable and deforestation-free leather. The leather lobby is pushing back. Public consultation closes 1 JUNE. Have your say: tinyurl.com/zk8puwwh @earthsight.bsky.social @clientearth.bsky.social @eia-news.bsky.social @mightyearth.org @umwelthilfe.bsky.social
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
📢 CLOSING SOON: The @ec.europa.eu consultation on the EUDR ends on 1 June. If beef from deforested land is banned, why should leather from the same cow still be allowed into the EU? Removing leather would weaken the law and reward laggards. Have your say 🗣️ www.earthsight.org.uk/news/have-yo...
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Have your say! 🗣️ The EU Commission’s proposal to remove leather from #EUDR is open for feedback until 1 June. Tell the Commission that removing leather would weaken the EUDR’s ability to address global deforestation.🌳 Make your voice heard ➡ www.earthsight.org.uk/news/have-yo...
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Tell the EU Commission to keep leather in the EUDR
The EU Commission has invited members of the public to have their say on products covered by the EUDR
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
📰 Great piece out today on the EU Commission's plan to drop leather from the EUDR ➡️ bit.ly/4uraREJ Cattle ranching drives deforestation globally and in the Amazon. Keeping leather in scope could deliver nearly €2bn in environmental benefits per year. Instead, forests & communities will lose out.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The European Commission has revealed its “simplification package” for the EUDR, including a proposal to remove leather from the scope. ‼️Let’s be clear: this isn’t simplification‼️ Removing leather protects industry interests and caves in to sustained lobbying: www.earthsight.org.uk/news/eudr-si...
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EU Commission avoids reopening the EUDR but proposes unjustifiable exemption for leather
The Commission has caved to the European leather sector’s lobbying to exempt itself from the regulation
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
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.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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.
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EU deforestation law nudges timber trade, Indonesia probe shows, but risks persist
JAKARTA — Several European timber firms have cut ties with suppliers linked to deforestation in Indonesia following a 2025 investigation, suggesting that an upcoming European Union regulation is alrea...
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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.
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EU imports of Brazilian Amazon beef surge as EUDR faces further threats
The EUDR must be enforced with no further changes or delays to combat the EU’s rising exposure to Amazon deforestation
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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👇
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EUDR is starting to steer company actions, despite slow progress: Report
Some companies have made headway toward removing deforestation from their supply chains in the last year, in preparation for the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), according to a new repo...
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🌳 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
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Forest 500 data shows regulation is driving corporate action on deforestation – Forest 500
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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
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Shifts in Indonesia-EU timber trade show value of the EU Deforestation Regulation
Trade in products of deforestation persist, even as individual companies raise their game
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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
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Timber imports linked to Malaysian deforestation show UK falling behind in efforts to protect forests
New study reveals big-brand UK retailers selling tropical wood labelled as ‘sustainable’ despite links to deforestation and human rights abuses
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Environmental Investigation Agency US @eia-us.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🚨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
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European leather sector tries to evade responsibility despite clear ties to deforestation
Inclusion of leather in the EUDR is needed to ensure EU consumers are not contributing to deforestation and human rights abuses
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Friends of the Earth @friends-earth.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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...
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Mighty Earth 🌍 @mightyearth.org · 05/03/2026
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:
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Billboards urge RV makers to stop sourcing wood from declining rainforest
Mighty Earth, a global environmental advocacy group, is pressuring RV makers to stop using wood from Borneo, where orangutans are losing their habitat, and instead work through the Forest Stewardship Council to source their wood.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
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
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Hands Off Nature – Defend Europe’s Forests, Rivers & Wildlife
Stop the dismantling of European environmental protections. Stand up for forests, wildlife, clean air, and safe water - our nature depends on it.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
⚠️ 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
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Indigenous Brazilians Protest Amazon River Dredging for Grain Exports | Amazon Watch
Hundreds of Indigenous people have been protesting in northern Brazil for two weeks outside the port terminal of U.S. agribusiness giant Cargill, angered over the dredging and development of Amazonian...
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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
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Environmental groups call for end to greenwashing of Indonesian deforesters
Open letter calls for PEFC to revoke a 'sustainable' certification given to Indonesia's top deforesters, which have cleared more than 40,000 hectares of precious tropical forest in Borneo since 2021
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
📢 @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/
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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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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚨 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
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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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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
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
Recently cleared areas of peat forest in the concession of PT
Mayawana Persada, West Kalimantan, 2024 (c) Auriga Nusantara
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
⚠️ 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
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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...
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
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...
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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
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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.
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“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.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
🎄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.
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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...
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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...
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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
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Earthsight @earthsight.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
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...
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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
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