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The Green Choice Alliance (GCA), a network of five Chinese environmental NGOs, has issued a new report on the environmental footprint of major clothing brands manufacturing in China. Sustainable Apparel's Critical Blind Spot is a follow-up on an April 2012 report from the Alliance which documented cases of large-scale pollution within the supply chains of well-known brands. Among 49 apparel brands covered in the new report, 47 were linked to suppliers with environmental contamination problems, said Wang Jingjing, deputy head of the Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs. Only Esquel and Burberry were given a clean bill of health.

A rather embarrassing challenge to the honest robustness of last week's agreement between the EU and Indonesia on providing legal and sustainable timber with independent verification on its provenance, is on its way in the form of cute images of 12 rare Sumatran tigers, including a mother playing with cubs.