Filters By campaign All Anonymous companies Banks Climate breakdown Corporate accountability Corruption & money laundering Diamonds Digital threats Forests Forest transparency & IFM Forêts Fossil fuels Governments Greenwashing Land and environmental defenders Land Deals Oil, Gas & Mining Personas defensoras Pétrole, gaz et minerais Responsible Minerals Rubber in the Mekong Stop Russian oil Timber Trade Transition minerals By country All Afghanistan Angola Azerbaijan Brazil Cambodia Central African Republic China Congo-Brazzaville D.R. Congo Equatorial Guinea European Union Guinea Guyana Honduras Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Liberia Libya Madagascar Malaysia Myanmar Nicaragua Nigeria Papua New Guinea Peru Russia South Sudan Sudan The Philippines Turkmenistan Uganda Ukraine United Kingdom United States Zimbabwe Press release | Feb. 20, 2018 Forests D.R. Congo DRC government reinstates illegal logging concessions in breach of its own moratorium DRC government reinstates illegal logging concessions in breach of its own moratorium Press release | Feb. 16, 2018 Forests Papua New Guinea Global Witness announced as a new beneficiary of the Dutch Postcode Lottery New funding from Dutch Postcode Lottery will help Global Witness reach new audiences with campaigns to combat corrupt activity and protect forests Press release | Feb. 7, 2018 Forests European Union Global Witness joins other NGOs to call on EU to urgently commit to tackle deforestation Global Witness joins other NGOs to call on EU to urgently commit to tackle deforestation Press release | Jan. 16, 2018 Forests Papua New Guinea Global Witness awarded funding from People’s Postcode Lottery to support vital work preserving one of the world’s last major rainforests in Papua New Guinea Global Witness has been awarded funding to support our work in protecting one of the world's last major rainforests in Papua New Guinea. Press release | Dec. 22, 2017 Forests D.R. Congo Global Witness welcomes call for changes to French proposal to expand industrial logging in Democratic Republic of Congo We welcome a DRC committee’s call to the French Development Agency (AFD) to substantially review their proposal to support an expansion of industrial logging. Press release | Dec. 19, 2017 Forests Liberia Liberian loggers’ secret tax break wipes US$13 million off country’s finances Global Witness and Tropenbos International condemn new law that rewards logging companies at the expense of Liberia’s people and call on Liberia’s donors to halt their support until it is overturned. Press release | Dec. 8, 2017 Forests Liberia Convicted arms and conflict timber trafficker Guus Kouwenhoven arrested for role in Liberia’s civil war We welcome news that Guus Kouwenhoven, notorious Dutch trafficker of arms and conflict timber, has been arrested for his actions in fuelling and profiting from Liberia's bloody civil war. Press release | Nov. 17, 2017 Forests D.R. Congo Global Witness’s response to Democratic Republic of Congo's Environment Minister’s logging moratorium statement While world leaders met at COP23 to discuss plans to tackle climate change, Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) environment ministry started a process to lift the 15-year-old moratorium on the allocation of new industrial logging concessions. Press release | Nov. 12, 2017 Forests D.R. Congo Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has started a process to lift its moratorium on the allocation of new logging concessions Statement from Global Witness, Greenpeace, Rainforest Foundation Norway, Rainforest Foundation UK and Réseau des Ressources Naturelles (RRN) Press release | Nov. 9, 2017 Forests Peru Undercover Footage Exposes Exporters’ Complicity in Peru’s Biggest Timber Scandal Companies caught up in Peru’s biggest timber scandal knew or had reason to suspect their exports from the Amazon rainforest were illegal, according to undercover footage released today by Global Witness. Show Previous 10 Show Next 10