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- Russian Supplier to Lumber Liquidators Convicted of Organized Crime
Russian Supplier to Lumber Liquidators Convicted of Organized Crime
The evidence against Lumber Liquidators, the U.S. wood products company currently under investigation by U.S. federal authorities for alleged violations of the U.S. Lacey Act, continues to accumulate. Senior executives of the Russian timber...
- NAMM Kicks Off, Musicians Join Nonprofits to Call for Legal Wood in Instruments
NAMM Kicks Off, Musicians Join Nonprofits to Call for Legal Wood in Instruments
This week, headliner musicians released a video to shed light on how illegal trade in precious woods, used in instruments and other wood products, devastates global forests. Driven by the connection between their music and the tonewoods which have...
- Vietnam – Still Driving the Rhino Poaching Crisis
Vietnam – Still Driving the Rhino Poaching Crisis
Rhinos are dying at a shocking rate – every week news releases remind us that the slaughter of South Africa’s rhinos is still wildly out of control. On average, more than three rhinos are poached each day...
- Translation by EIA: Step by Step, Laundering Peruvian Timber
Translation by EIA: Step by Step, Laundering Peruvian Timber
In her December 12, 2014 article, Peruvian journalist Dánae Rivadeneyra details the steps by which Peruvian timber is laundered at alarming rates. Her investigation confirms EIA’s findings, which were published in...
- EIA Hosts Workshop as Palm Oil Development Increases
EIA Hosts Workshop as Palm Oil Development Increases
Last week, EIA organized an unprecedented regional workshop for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), local communities, and Indigenous people groups in the Congo Basin to address the emerging threat...
- Voices for the Climate Echoes Concerns over Palm Oil Expansion at COP20
Voices for the Climate Echoes Concerns over Palm Oil Expansion at COP20
At the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Lima December 1 through 14, a series of speakers presenting at the “Voices for Climate, Indigenous Pavilion”...
- New National Pact in Peru Aims to Stop Illegal Logging
New National Pact in Peru Aims to Stop Illegal Logging
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) welcomes today the launch of the multi-sector working group, known as the National Pact for Legal Wood, established to combat illegal logging in Peru. Comprised of nonprofit...
- Ambitious Indigenous Forest Monitoring Program Underway Across Peru (video)
Ambitious Indigenous Forest Monitoring Program Underway Across Peru (video)
Peru’s largest organization representing indigenous peoples from the Amazon region, AIDESEP, is moving forward with a bold new proposal for indigenous forest oversightand management: el Sistema Nacional de Veedurías Forestales or National Forest Monitoring Initiative...
- EIA Celebrates 25 Years of Protecting the Environment With Intelligence
EIA Celebrates 25 Years of Protecting the Environment With Intelligence
For 25 years, the Environmental Investigation Agency has been pioneering the use of undercover investigations to expose environmental crime around the world. In addition to undercover work, EIA has also utilized campaigning expertise, an extensive advocacy network...
- Montreal Protocol Shows Political Will and Boosts Climate Momentum
Montreal Protocol Shows Political Will and Boosts Climate Momentum
This November marks a series of great successes for global climate policy. The progress began with the historic climate announcement by President Obama and President Xi, as the United States and China joined the European Union in committing to new limits on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Also last week, countries committed...
- Vice President of Ucayali Launders Illegally Logged Wood, According to OSINFOR
Vice President of Ucayali Launders Illegally Logged Wood, According to OSINFOR
Illegal logging in Peru’s Ucayali region and its link to the murder of Ashanika indigenous activist Edwin Chota is investigated by La Republica in the translated articled below. In the article, EIA’s Director of Peru Programs...
- Indigenous Groups Present Proposals in Lead up to Climate Talks in Peru
Indigenous Groups Present Proposals in Lead up to Climate Talks in Peru
In the lead up to global climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), indigenous groups presented proposals for inclusive climate mitigation and adaptation. During a public forum in Lima on October 27th, representatives from AIDESEP, the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon...
- CCTV Biz America and EIA’s Kate Horner Talk Illegal Logging (video)
CCTV Biz America and EIA’s Kate Horner Talk Illegal Logging (video)
CCTV interviews EIA’s Director of Forest Campaigns, Kate Horner, in a discussion of the growing global crisis of illegal logging that threatens our world’s forests and the people who depend upon them. Ms. Horner discusses the international demand for wood products...
- Leaders Need to Focus on the Climate and Not the Politics
Leaders Need to Focus on the Climate and Not the Politics
Following hot on the heels of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit in New York in September, a couple of events this week should put climate change back in the headlines...
- International Ozone Day: Montreal Protocol Mission Goes On
International Ozone Day: Montreal Protocol Mission Goes On
Today is International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, the theme of which is Ozone Layer Protection: The Mission Goes On. Although the Montreal Protocol eliminated the use of most gases which were damaging the ozone layer...
- Congressional Briefing Highlights the National Security Threats of Wildlife Trafficking
Congressional Briefing Highlights the National Security Threats of Wildlife Trafficking
The trafficking of illegal wildlife products threatens security, rule of law, and the survival of the species. Today, a panel of experts, led by retired United States Army General Carter Ham and Congressman Norm Dicks...
- World Habitat Day: A Photo Journey with EIA
World Habitat Day: A Photo Journey with EIA
Today marks World Habitat Day, an exciting opportunity to marvel and reflect on the rich and diverse habitats that make up our planet. To commemorate this day, EIA is showcasing a photo journal of some of the habitats we work in...
- Modi-Obama Statement on HFCs: 3 Things You Need to Know
Modi-Obama Statement on HFCs: 3 Things You Need to Know
On Tuesday, two of the top three greenhouse gas emitters in the world, the United States and India, announced a plan to work together to phase out potent “super” greenhouse gases, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)...
- HFCs and The Climate Summit: Hoping for Country Commitments
HFCs and The Climate Summit: Hoping for Country Commitments
Tomorrow, for the first time ever, over 130 heads of state will gather in New York City to deliver bold pledges to combat climate change. This is the first time a meeting on climate change has been convened explicitly by the Secretary General before the General Assembly...
- EPA Cracks Down on Bad Apple Supermarkets
EPA Cracks Down on Bad Apple Supermarkets
Every year, supermarkets in the United States emit large quantities of ozone-depleting greenhouse gases known as hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), which are widely used in commercial refrigeration and air conditioning...
- Bringing HFCs to the Table on Climate and Health
Bringing HFCs to the Table on Climate and Health
Climate change may be “the biggest global health threat of the 21st Century” and one which will put the wellbeing of billions of people around the world at increased risk. The impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions...
- Heading Off to College: Be Cool the Right Way
Heading Off to College: Be Cool the Right Way
Let’s face it, procrastination happens. Especially in college. So sometimes it’s necessary to have a refrigerator stocked full of cool beverages and snacks to keep your brain buzzing to study for that big exam or write...
- Madagascar’s Forests Falling to Illegal Loggers and Government Inaction
Madagascar’s Forests Falling to Illegal Loggers and Government Inaction
Madagascar’s unparalleled National Parks, which are also UNESCO World Heritage sites, are being infiltrated and destroyed by illegal loggers. The livelihoods of many Malagasy citizens and the wildlife that depend on these resources are being systematically plundered...
- Coming Soon! You Too Can Own a Climate-Friendly Refrigerator in the U.S.
Coming Soon! You Too Can Own a Climate-Friendly Refrigerator in the U.S.
At last, the North American market for climate-friendly refrigerators is catching up to the rest of the world. But what does this mean for Canadian, American, and Mexican consumers? You may have thought we already had environmentally-friendly refrigerators...
- Breaking the Mold on How We Keep it Cold: EIA Launches Digest of HFC-Free Technologies
Breaking the Mold on How We Keep it Cold: EIA Launches Digest of HFC-Free Technologies
It’s the middle of summer and your air-conditioner is cranked to the max while your refrigerator constantly works to fight off the incoming heat and humidity. While relaxing in that cool breeze from your AC and drinking that refreshing beverage, your climate may feel just right, but what you may not realize is that the synthetic...