Room to improve in Europe’s ongoing crackdown on high risk teak from Myanmar
The European Union is cracking down on shipments of illegal teak from Myanmar but needs to step up its game to be more effective
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Watching the world burn – fires threaten the planet’s tropical forests and millions of people
In recent weeks, the world has looked on transfixed as huge tracts of the precious Amazon rainforest have been engulfed in flame.
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Chinese enforcement raid targets major timber-smuggling syndicate plundering Myanmar
Details are emerging from local media in China of an unprecedented enforcement operation in the country’s Yunnan Province against smuggling of precious timber from neighbouring Myanmar
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Instead of closing tiger farms, Laos helped them proliferate – it’s time for trade sanctions
Despite more than five years of non-compliance proceedings, there has been virtually no progress in Laos in relation to its pledge to phase out tiger farms - it's now time for CITES trade sanctions
With extinction looming, it’s CITES’s last chance to save the vaquita porpoise
Governments from around the world meet in Geneva this week for one of the most important dates in the conservation calendar – and perhaps the last chance to save the world’s most threatened marine mammal
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EIA rebuttal to biased and incorrect allegations in Myanmar media re State of Corruption report
On 1 July 2019, Eleven Media Group published an article entitled “EIA Exposed – the campaign against Myanmar’s teak trade accused of making false allegations against innocent timber trader”. Although the article is labelled as an interview, it reads more like a biased opinion piece and is riddled with inaccuracies and falsehoods. In this letter, […]
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