With a bigger impact than China, the UK must act swiftly to stop the illegal clearing of forests
The negative impact of the UK’s consumption of goods on the world’s forests is higher than that of China
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The negative impact of the UK’s consumption of goods on the world’s forests is higher than that of China
Released in 2005, The Last Frontier documented how the rampant smuggling of illegal timber from Indonesia to China was a billion dollar trade threatening the last remaining intact tropical forests in the Asia-Pacific region
On the third anniversary of the Myanmar military seizing power, the country has effectively seen a return to the violence, plunder and human rights abuses of the former dictatorship in pursuit of control and hard currency
More than two years ago, EIA unveiled our Environmental Crime Tracker, an open access online tool to help analyse and better understand wildlife and forest crime around the world. Recently, we expanded its capabilities even further with a new dashboard to help assess the prosecutions of environmental crimes
Corruption is a critical enabling factor behind the illegal wildlife trade and forest crime – it not only facilitates environmental crime, but is also a major impediment to law enforcement and criminal justice
The UK Government is to seek to tackle deforestation by addressing problems in the country’s international supply chains