Despite EU sanctions, cash-hungry Myanmar military offers to accept Euros in upcoming teak auction
Despite EU sanctions, cash-hungry Myanmar military offers to accept Euros in upcoming teak auction.
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Tag: illegal-logging
Sanction-busting Italian timber traders defy EU law to import Myanmar teak, aiding the brutal military regime
Despite trade sanctions imposed in June to ban imports of Myanmar teak into Europe, more than 300 tonnes of the ‘king of woods’ worth well over €2 million has since entered into Italy, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) can reveal
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Indonesia must act to protect its forests and root out corruption and illegality from palm oil sector
The Government of Indonesia has been urged renew its three-year ban on converting its Forest Estate to new palm oil plantations amid mounting fears that it may abandon it.
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Myanmar junta makes another grab for hard cash with major auctions of illicit timber
Myanmar’s violent military junta is tomorrow (16 September) poised to hold one of two massive auctions of illicit timber to replenish its coffers; the second is due to take place on 30 September.
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EIA statement on the arrest and detention in Myanmar of forests defender Kyaw Minn Htut
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is appalled to learn that respected forests and rights defender and democracy advocate Kyaw Min Htut has been arrested and detained by the junta in Myanmar
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Italian traders defy the law and sanctions to keep importing teak from Myanmar
Italy has been exposed at the heart of an ongoing trade in illicit timber from Myanmar, in defiance of both EU trade regulations and sanctions imposed in response to the violent military coup earlier this year
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