In October 2025, Earthsight and Auriga Nusantara published Risky Business, which exposed Indonesian timber companies buying wood produced through the destruction of orangutan habitat in Borneo and selling on to international markets, including the EU.
Since then, several companies named in the report have taken significant steps to exclude this ‘deforestation wood’ from their supply chains – and therefore align with the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), which will from December 2026 ban imports of commodities linked to forest clearance or illegality.
This new research shows that the EUDR has already had a huge impact in making Europe’s timber trade more sustainable, and that many EU companies are well prepared for its implementation.
