THE International Tiger Coalition (ITC) welcomes Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s convening of world leaders at the International Tiger Conservation Forum from November 21-24 in St Petersburg. In response to…
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EIA urges International Tiger Forum to give its outcomes real teeth PARTICIPANTS in the forthcoming International Tiger Forum are being cautioned they must act decisively now or face a…
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Montreal Protocol actions would exceed UNFCCC/Kyoto reductions While most of the world is focused on the UNFCCC climate negotiations leading up to the December meeting in Cancun, next week’s Montreal…
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LONDON: Campaigners are warning of the risk of a public health disaster unfolding in Japan while condemning the largest cetacean hunt in the world, which begins today in Japan’s coastal…
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Stand-Up Poetry, Music & Cartoons to help fight eco crime THE Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) & ROAR Collective present ROAR! Imagine a Tiger, a fundraising extravaganza starring poet/musician John Hegley…
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LONDON: Campaigners at the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) welcome the news that INTERPOL, the world’s largest international police organisation, has joined the fight to end the tiger trade. An…
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Environment groups name two kingpins in illegal international trade THE Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak today (August 5, 2010) name two of the kingpins in Indonesia profiteering from…
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LONDON: The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) commends Norway’s divestment of its pension fund’s shares in Malaysian logger Samling Global this week, but calls for a more comprehensive review of the…
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Our tiger campaigner Alasdair comment’s on today’s latest news. On 20 July, a young Right to Information campaigner named Amit Jethwa was gunned down opposite the High Court in Gujarat,…
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Budget deficits jeopardize phase-out of harmful refrigerant gases A SMALL group of policy-makers meeting in Montreal this week will decide if up to nine billion tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent…
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Record number of blue whales in Great Australian Bight this summer
Scientists estimate that there are up to 50 blue whales in the Great Australian Bight this summer, the highest number seen since blue whale aerial surveys began in the region.
But it is a fluke researchers know this at all as funding for aerial surveys has been difficult to come by.
This year, blue whales have only been seen in the Bight because they crossed paths with another animal that feeds in the Bight's bountiful summer waters — southern bluefin tuna ...
Source: www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-14/blue-whales-in-record-numbers-in-great-australian-bight/10786692
#Australia #whales #tuna
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Press conference launch for major new report on global trade in Myanmar’s stolen teak
MEDIA ADVISORY
STATE OF CORRUPTION: THE TOP-LEVEL CONSPIRACY BEHIND THE GLOBAL TRADE IN MYANMAR’S STOLEN TEAK
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) will release a major new forests crime report at a press conference in Thailand on 20 February 2019.
State of Corruption: The top-level conspiracy behind the global trade in Myanmar’s stolen teak details the systemic corruption, illegal logging and timber smuggling involved in the trade of Myanmar teak.
State of Corruption documents the findings of EIA’s two-year undercover investigation into a near-mythic Burmese teak kingpin who conspired with and bribed the most senior military and Government officials in Myanmar to establish a secret off-the-books system of fraudulent trade in the country’s highest quality teak logs.
It also documents how this illegal wood enters international markets and calls for heightened enforcement of existing laws in Myanmar, the EU and the US.
DATE: Wednesday, 20 February 2019
TIME: 10:00 (BKK time)
VENUE: Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Thailand, Penthouse, Maneeya Centre, 518/5 Ploenchit Road, Patumwan, Bangkok 10330
CONTACTS FOR MEDIA
Paul Newman, EIA Press & Communications Officer, via press[at]eia-international.org or +44 (0) 20 7354 7960
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