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 | June 13, 2016 Forests Liberia Liberia’s US$37 million deforestation project promotes community forestry but fails to combat illegal logging New project promotes community forestry, lets loggers off the hook Press release | May 25, 2016 Forests Japan Joint NGO Letter to Japanese Prime Minister on illegal timber trade ahead of G7 Summit Japan’s new law fails to meet G7 commitment to halt trade in illegal timber: Government must ensure robust regulations and broad industry participation Press release | May 4, 2016 Forests D.R. Congo Central African Republic EU crackdown on global trade in illegal timber must tackle key drivers - conflict and corruption The EU must prioritise the role played by conflict and corruption in fuelling the multi-billion trade in illegally logged wood Press release | April 6, 2016 Land Forests Cambodia Global Witness response: Cambodia pledges major reforms on forest protection Global Witness welcomes an announcement by the Cambodian government that it will turn vast swathes of the country’s imperilled forests into a no-go zone for industry and commercial loggers. Press release | March 16, 2016 Forests Brazil Latin America’s biggest development bank overlooks widespread illegalities in financing of major highway project in the Amazon Brazil’s National Development Bank (BNDES) failed to detect a raft of illegalities and serious social and environmental problems when agreeing to finance a controversial highway project through the Bolivian Amazon. Press release | July 23, 2015 Forests Liberia Global Witness exposé reveals violence, threats, and false promises driving rapid palm oil expansion in Liberia Liberians are reported to have been beaten, threatened, and arrested for taking a stand against one of the world’s biggest palm oil plantations as it sweeps across the southeast of the country, a new Global Witness exposé reveals. | March 17, 2015 Forests Central African Republic Company accused of financing Central African war invited to EU logging conference A company involved in financing armed groups in Central African Republic has been invited by the European Commission to its annual stocktaking of efforts to end illegal logging. | Feb. 13, 2015 Forests Liberia Wartime timber company DLH penalized for trading illegal Liberian Private Use Permit logs The Danish timber giant Dalhoff Larsen and Horneman (DLH), a company accused of buying conflict timber during Liberia’s civil war, has been stripped of its certification by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) because it purchased illegal Liberian Private Use Permit (PUP) logs. Responding to a complaint submitted by Global Witness, the world’s largest timber certifier said that DLH can no longer use the FSC brand to claim that its timber is legal and sustainable. | Feb. 13, 2015 Forests Cambodia 奢侈的代价:中国对奢侈红木家具的需求助长数百万美元的柬埔寨木材走私活动 English version 全球见证近期发文披露,中国的红木家具热潮助长了数百万美元的柬埔寨非法木材黑市交易。《奢侈的代价》报告历时8个月,针对柬埔寨仅余珍贵木材的需求进行了隐秘调查;最终揭露了以柬埔寨大亨奥克汗·特里·皮耶(Oknha Try Pheap,音译)为首的非法采伐网络如何在政府、军队、警察和海关人员的包庇下,在各地违规采伐大红酸枝(Siamese Rosewood,学名:交趾黄檀,拉丁文:Dalbergia Cochinchinensis)等珍贵木材并装运香港的情况。 | Feb. 12, 2015 Forests Liberia Danish timber giant kicked out of Forest Stewardship Council certification scheme for trading illegal timber Call for Danish and European regulators of the EU’s illegal timber ban to answer for potential failures to enforce rules against the Danish “conflict timber” trader Show Previous 10 Show Next 10