Wildlife and Forest Crime: CCPCJ 22
A joint briefing by EIA, WWF and TRAFFIC for the 22nd Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ). This session is an important opportunity to build…
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The Inside Story
A briefing to the 16th meeting of the Conference of Parties (CoP16) to the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Bangkok, Thailand. Over the years, our…
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EIA Comments on the 6th Draft of the Vietnamese Timber and Timber Product Legality Definition
On 27 February 2013, we submitted comments on the 6th draft of the Vietnamese Timber and Timber Product Legality Definition, highlighting concerns that the Legality Definition fails to provide assurances that…
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First Class Connections: Log Smuggling, Illegal Logging and Corruption in Mozambique
A report on the illegal flow of timber from Mozambique to China featuring detailed case studies revealing smuggling techniques, specific examples of corruption and the collusion of senior Mozambique politicians…
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Appetite for Destruction: China’s Trade in Illegal Timber
China, emergent superpower and the world’s second biggest economy, is effectively standing on the sidelines as its exponential growth devastates forests in a trade worth billions of dollars a year.…
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Checkpoints
More than a year after being exposed as major players in the smuggling of timber from Laos, this report reveals the Vietnamese timber industry, the military and well-connected Lao actors…
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Testing the Law
Systemic law enforcement failings threaten to make a mockery of Indonesia’s pledge to reduce deforestation and carbon emissions by enabling plantation companies to destroy carbon-rich peatlands with impunity. Testing the…
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Clear-Cut Exploitation
An Indonesian oil palm plantation in which Norway has a financial stake paid Papuan tribal landowners as little as $0.65 per hectare for their forestland. Clear-Cut Exploitation exposes woefully low…
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Rosewood Robbery
Illegal and unsustainable rosewood logging is the major threat to Thailand’s limited remaining forests, particularly in the north-east regions. Unprecedented demand for luxury ‘Hongmu’, or ‘redwood’, furniture in China is…
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Hard Evidence of Continued Import of Illegal Timber from Malaysia to Japan
A briefing about how Japan is falling behind other major consuming markets in its efforts to halt trade in illegally sourced wood. Of five consumer countries studied, Japan had the…
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Climate strike: UK school pupils take part in call for urgent action
Thousands of schoolchildren and young people in the UK are taking part in climate strikes with the support of a former UN climate chief, who said it was “time to heed the deeply moving voice of youth”.
Christiana Figueres, who led the historic 2015 Paris agreement, said the fact that children were so worried about their future they were prepared to strike should make adults take urgent action.
Source: www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/15/uk-climate-change-strike-school-pupils-children-envir...
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Today is World Pangolin Day, a chance to celebrate one of the natural world's most curious creatures - and to spread awareness of the dire threats it faces as the world's most trafficked mammal.
Find out about the work of our Pangolin Campaign at eia-international.org/our-work/wildlife/pangolins/
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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
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