LONDON: As the London Boat Show opens this week (10-14 January) the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) warned that two of the biggest exhibitors have been building yachts for the…
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Dutch firm Boogaerdt Hout found in breach of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) for placing Burmese teak on EU marketplace Case was submitted to Dutch authorities by the Environmental…
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. Myanmar’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation (MONREC) has reaffirmed its commitment to reforming the country’s timber production and exports to ensure illegal timber does not enter trade…
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Myanmar teak importers violate European law – World’s largest sailing yacht implicated LONDON: When German boat builders finally complete Sailing Yacht ‘A’ – the world’s largest ever – it…
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Myanmar’s logging ban a major step towards forest sector reform LONDON: The new Government of Myanmar has agreed a temporary national logging ban and a 10-year logging ban in…
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On this UN International Mother Earth Day, celebrated this year with the theme Trees for the Earth, we are proud to host a guest blog by Nang Shining, Shan activist…
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Read the Burmese language version here. . Monitoring of key crossing points along the Myanmar-China border by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals a sharp downturn in the volume of…
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. On Tuesday, the EIA team which launched the new Forest Campaign report Organised Chaos: The illicit overland timber trade between Myanmar and China in Beijing met in Yangon, Myanmar…
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EIA’s Forest Campaign team has been in Beijing this week to launch the new report Organised Chaos. The report and its accompanying film expose the scale, methods and key named…
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Cash from chaos: The burgeoning illicit trade in timber from Myanmar to China revealed BEIJING: The conviction and subsequent pardon of 155 Chinese nationals in July for illegal logging in…
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