Tag: deforestation

EIA supporter Ronni Ancona talks about her passion for the natural world and for our work to safeguard it

The EU and UK sanctioning the MTE and targeting those individuals who directly profit from Myanmar’s timber and trade would only add weight to the international community’s attempts to choke off the funds enabling more violence and brutality

Today (3 March) is UN World Wildlife Day and this year’s theme is Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet

Using more than 1,000 pages of documents from the Croatian Ministry of Agriculture, EIA was able to piece together the details of 10 shipments of teak from Myanmar which were supplied to companies throughout Europe

For years EIA has been campaigning for strong action to prevent the trade in commodities from causing deforestation and now some big steps are being taken in Europe towards this goal. We have the chance to create a new “due diligence” law that will require companies to ensure their products have not been grown on recently deforested land.

The Financial Action Task Force can use its clout to compel global financial centres to take the risks posed to the world’s forests far more seriously than they have done to date