📢 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.

⚠️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.

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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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.

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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🗓️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

🌳‼️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...

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

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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🚨 @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...

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.

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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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.

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.‼️🐄

‼️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.

‼️🌳 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

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.

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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🙌 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...

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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📅 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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📌 Join us at @soasuni.bsky.social #Economics for Amazon Dialogues 2026: Economics, #Deforestation🌳 and Global #Justice ⚖️🌎 🎤 Organised in collaboration with the Embassy of #Brazil in #London 🇧🇷 Info and registration 🔗 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

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

📢 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...

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...

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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📰 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.

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...

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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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.

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.

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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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.

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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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👇

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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🌳 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

Forest 500 data shows regulation is driving corporate action on deforestation – Forest 500

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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

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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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

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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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.

🚨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

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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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.