US timber traders help support Myanmar’s brutal junta by skirting laws to import illicit teak
Today (16 May), EIA names 12 major American timber firms importing teak from Myanmar since the start of the 2021 military coup
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Intelligence and criminal blacklists are vital to tackling illegal wildlife trade on the high seas
Identifying illegal wildlife shipments at sea is like looking for a needle in hundreds of haystacks
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Traders defy the law to import more teak into the USA from Myanmar than before the coup
Despite sanctions put in place against the brutal military junta in Myanmar, US traders continue to source precious teak from the country for luxury yachts and flooring
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EIA podcast – documenting a partnership forged to take on environmental crime
When just about every aspect of the human world was upended by pandemic lockdowns back in 2020, EIA and many others had to claw their way up a steep learning curve to find new ways to effectively carry out vital work – and as if that wasn’t challenge enough, our Forests team set out to make a documentary film!
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A win for nature as CITES takes steps to shut down the rosewood racket from West Africa to China
We are delighted to join with our EIA US colleagues to welcome the immediate suspension of international trade in threatened West African rosewood
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Convicted German timber trader investigated by EIA is raided for dealing in illegal Myanmar teak
Working with information supplied by EIA’s Forests team, German police and customs have raided the private villa of timber trader Stefan Bührich and the grounds of a company of which he was previously a director
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