EIA is calling on the world’s main ‘sustainable palm oil’ certification schemes to immediately commission independent investigations into the illegal burning of land in concessions owned by member companies in Sumatra, Indonesia following a dramatic rise in forest and land fires in Riau province in recent weeks
The Spring 2013 issue of our bi-annual newsletter Investigator, giving you an overview of our key campaign activities during the past six months. This issue features our exposé of China’s conservation double standard and lots more
Exposing environmental crime and expolitation is what we do, and our ground-breaking undercover investigations and hard-hitting reports have made huge, positive impacts. We couldn’t do so much without the enthusiastic help of you, our valued supporters and followers
In February of this year, EIA published a report on the illegal smuggling of timber from Mozambique to China entitled First Class Connections: Log Smuggling, Illegal Logging and Corruption in Mozambique, highlighting the role of Chinese traders in facilitating the illegal flow of stolen timber.
At the upcoming 22nd Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) meeting in Vienna, we have been invited to speak on the issue of wildlife and forest crime together with WWF in a session hosted by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Download our joint briefing with WWF and TRAFFIC to CCPCJ here
EIA campaigners are in Vienna for a meeting of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), which begins on Monday (April 22). EIA and others will be pushing for it to expand the work of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to address illicit trafficking in protected species of wild fauna and flora