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 […]
From the outset of their large-scale commercial hunting operations in the late 1920s until the international ban on commercial whaling in 1986, Nippon Suisan, Kyokuyo and Maruha profited from the death of nearly half a million great whales.
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 […]
One of the poorest countries in Latin America, Honduras is losing up to $18 million a year in lost stumpage fees and other forest-based revenue. Yet this is only the tip of the iceberg of a massive, nationwide, resource rip-off by major timber and wood product producers and their high level political backers. An estimated […]