A floresta amazônica no Brasil está sendo arrasada para fins de pecuária (em grande parte ilegal), com consequências terríveis para os povos indígenas e comunidades tradicionais, bem como para a biodiversidade e o clima global. Investigação da EIA revela a conexão entre assentos de couro para carros fabricados pela indústria automotiva global e o gado […]
The Amazon rainforest in Brazil is being razed for cattle ranching, much of it illegal, with dire consequences for indigenous peoples and traditional communities, biodiversity and the global climate. EIA’s investigation reveals the links between leather car seats for the global auto industry and cattle raised on illegally deforested land in the Brazilian Amazon. […]
American consumers love Russian birch. Claimed to be durable, strong, and visually appealing, Russian birch is “the wood of choice for many carpenters, furniture makers, and manufacturers” in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of cubic meters of birch plywood are imported from Russia each year, some manufactured into products and the rest sold directly […]
Update: Read more media coverage of this report and EIA’s reaction statement to the RED vote There is a lie at the heart of Europe’s climate policy – the fallacy that burning trees for energy is good for the climate. The EU is the world’s largest market for wood pellets, and the largest burner […]
The world is losing an area of forest the size of Virginia every year. Nearly half of this deforestation is due to the illegal conversion of forests to pasture and cropland. And around a third of agricultural products grown or raised on deforested land, such as cattle, palm oil, and soybeans, enter global supply chains. […]
In an unprecedented investigation that connects threatened forests of Solomon Islands, China’s timber manufacturing hubs, and European importers, our new report The Lie Behind the Ply reveals how European consumers of tropical plywood have been the unwitting drivers of forest degradation. Our findings show that European companies appear to have imported thousands of tons […]