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EIA hosts environmental crime panel in Bangkok

Environmental crime is recognised by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as the third largest form of global crime, accounting for at least $3.5 billion a year. It exacerbates deforestation and climate change, threatens the existence of endangered species and affects the livelihoods of rural communities.

A look to the crown of a big tree, from below
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Caught REDD-handed!

On the day Indonesia’s president signed a new moratorium on forest exploitation in areas of peatland and primary forest across Indonesia, a Malaysian owned plantation company was filmed actively clearing about 5,000 hectares of it in the REDD+ Pilot Province, Central Kalimantan. The moratorium was breached on day one