The impact of methyl bromide on the ozone layer is unusually severe and rapid. Bromine, the ozone-depleting element found in methyl bromide, is nearly 60 times more effective at destroying ozone than the chlorine found in CFCs.9 This means that even though its atmospheric lifetime is quite short (a little over a year)31, the immediate […]
Rampant illegal logging of merbau trees is driving the destruction of the largest remaining tract of virgin tropical forest in Asia – the jungles of the remote Indonesian province of Papua. This destruction is being driven by international demand for cheap merbau timber for use in wood flooring.
As this report is published, the US is cementing economic partnerships which could further speed the destruction of Southeast Asian and Latin American forests. The list of looming US Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) reads like a who’s who of states involved in the global illegal logging epidemic: Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Peru and Central America.
Demand-driven illegal logging in Indonesia is destroying one of the world’s most important remaining tracts of undisturbed tropical forest. Despite unprecedented enforcement operations by the Indonesian government, every day thousands of hectares of Indonesia’s forests are cut illegally to supply the thousands of factories across Asia.
EIA has been actively tracking the global illegal trade in ozone depleting chemical since the mid-1990s and has built up a unique dossier on the methods and routes used by the ODS smugglers, as well as some of the key companies and individuals involved. In 1998 EIA revealed that China had overtaken Russia as the […]
La caoba, una de las maderas duras de más alto valor, es cada vez más escasa y podría desaparecer en tan solo diez ó quince años. La singular Reserva de la Biosfera del Río Plátano, declarada Sitio de Patrimonio Mundial por la UNESCO, se encuentra bajo amenaza inminente y su zona de amortiguamiento circundante sufre […]