The world’s forests are a critical piece of the climate change puzzle. Forests cover 30% of Earth’s land surface, sequester some 45% of terrestrial carbon, and influence the climate through albedo and regional weather pattern effects. Scientific literature increasingly supports the fact that primary forests store vast amounts of standing carbon and continue to sequester […]
This document, the results of a series of workshops carried out in Lima, and the capital cities of Peru’s three principal Amazonian regions, Ucayali, Loreto,and Madre de Dios, brings together the perceptions and recommendations of Peruvian civil society regarding the advances made by the Peruvian government in strengthening the governance of the forest sector in […]
Em 2008, o governo dos Estados Unidos aprovou a emenda da Lei Lacey para proibir a comercialização de plantas de origem ilegal, incluindo os produtos da madeira. A nova lei representa uma mudança significativa para o setor de produtos florestais, criando um novo nível de responsabilidade que não existia antes nas cadeias de abastecimento. Para […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has appealed to President Obama and the US government to support Kenya, the birthplace of Obama’s father, which is leading efforts by 20 African nations to maintain elephant protection and oppose ivory trade at the CITES meeting in Doha. On Monday delegates will vote on whether to “downlist” […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Global Witness and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today called on French shipping company Delmas to cancel a shipment to China of hundreds of tons of rosewood from the port of Vohémar, in northeastern Madagascar. The Delmas operated vessel Kiara – listed in the Lloyds Register under IMO Ship No.9403384 – arrived […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new report released today exposes large-scale illegal ivory trade in Tanzania and Zambia on the eve of the opening of the meeting of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar on Saturday March, 12. Both Tanzania and Zambia have proposed selling their ivory […]