Reports
- Made in China: How China’s illegal ivory trade is causing a 21st century African elephant disaster
Made in China: How China’s illegal ivory trade is causing a 21st century African elephant disaster
China has the largest illegal ivory trade of any nation in the world. It is the most significant global destination for illegal ivory. Ivory traders are now thought to be stockpiling elephant tusks and ivory products...
- Preventing illegal trade in ODS: Strengthening the Montreal Protocol licensing system
Preventing illegal trade in ODS: Strengthening the Montreal Protocol licensing system
By the mid-1990s around 20 000 tonnes of ODS were being traded illegally each year, equivalent to 20% of legitimate trade, and sophisticated smuggling...
- HCFC Phase-out: A Comparative Assessment of the Proposed Adjustments
HCFC Phase-out: A Comparative Assessment of the Proposed Adjustments
In the early 1990s HCFCs became the first generation of substitute chemicals for CFCs and were added to the list of substances controlled by the Montreal Protocol...
- Feeding Forest Crime How U.S. imports support the timber barons of Southeast Asia
Feeding Forest Crime How U.S. imports support the timber barons of Southeast Asia
In an effort to staunch the illegal flow of its resources, Indonesia enacted a log export ban in September 2001and a sawn timber export ban in October 2004 (strengthened in February 2006). Despite these laws...
- The Thousand-Headed Snake Forest Crimes, Corruption and Injustice in Indonesia
The Thousand-Headed Snake Forest Crimes, Corruption and Injustice in Indonesia
An environmental crime of almost unimaginable scale continues to unfold across Indonesia. Since the late 1990s the country’s forests have been ransacked, with the government acting as little more than a bystander...
- 2007 Annual Report: Environmental investigation agency US
2007 Annual Report: Environmental investigation agency US
For almost a quarter century, EIA has pioneered the use of undercover investigations to expose environmental crime around the world. In parallel, we have developed a global intelligence...
- ODS TRACKING: Feasibility Study on Developing a System for Monitoring the Ozone Depleting Substances
ODS TRACKING: Feasibility Study on Developing a System for Monitoring the Ozone Depleting Substances
There are many possible components and variations of ‘systems for monitoring transboundary movement’ or ‘tracking mechanisms’. Import and export licensing schemes...
- Opportunity Wasted Methyl Bromide: Our best chance to Reduce Ozone Depletion Now
Opportunity Wasted Methyl Bromide: Our best chance to Reduce Ozone Depletion Now
The impact of methyl bromide on the ozone layer is unusually severe and rapid. Bromine, the ozone-depleting element found in methyl bromide, is nearly 60 times more...
- Giant European and North American Manufacturers and Retailers Still Trading Merbau Wood Flooring
Giant European and North American Manufacturers and Retailers Still Trading Merbau Wood Flooring
Rampant illegal logging of merbau trees is driving the destruction of the largest remaining tract of virgin tropical forest in Asia – the jungles of the remote Indonesian province of Papua...
- America’s Free Trade for Illegal Lumber
America’s Free Trade for Illegal Lumber
As this report is published, the US is cementing economic partnerships which could further speed the destruction of Southeast Asian and Latin American forests. The list of looming US Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) reads...
- Behind The Veneer: How Indonesia’s Last Rainforests are being felled for Flooring
Behind The Veneer: How Indonesia’s Last Rainforests are being felled for Flooring
Demand-driven illegal logging in Indonesia is destroying one of the world’s most important remaining tracts of undisturbed tropical forest. Despite unprecedented enforcement operations...
- Under the Counter: China’s Booming Illegal Trade in Ozone Depleting Substances
Under the Counter: China’s Booming Illegal Trade in Ozone Depleting Substances
EIA has been actively tracking the global illegal trade in ozone depleting chemical since the mid-1990s and has built up a unique dossier on...
- La Crisis De La Tala Ilegal En Honduras
La Crisis De La Tala Ilegal En Honduras
La caoba, una de las maderas duras de más alto valor, es cada vez más escasa y podría desaparecer en tan solo diez ó quince años. La singular Reserva de la Biosfera del Río Plátano, declarada Sitio de Patrimonio Mundial...
- We Don’t Buy It!
We Don’t Buy It!
From the outset of their large-scale commercial hunting operations in the late 1920s until the international ban on commercial whaling in 1986, Nippon Suisan, Kyokuyo and Maruha profited from the death...
- The Illegal Logging Crisis in Honduras
The Illegal Logging Crisis in Honduras
One of the poorest countries in Latin America, Honduras is losing up to $18 million a year in lost stumpage fees and other forest-based revenue. Yet this is only the tip of the iceberg of a massive, nationwide...
- The Continued Destruction of the Ozone Layer and U.S. Abuse of Methyl Bromide “Critical-Use” Exemptions
The Continued Destruction of the Ozone Layer and U.S. Abuse of Methyl Bromide “Critical-Use” Exemptions
In a reversal of historic American leadership based on transparency and accountability, the U.S. government has refused to divulge information about....
- The Last Frontier: Illegal Logging in Papua and China’s Massive Timber Theft
The Last Frontier: Illegal Logging in Papua and China’s Massive Timber Theft
Asia has already lost 95 per cent of its frontier forests. Most of what remains is confined to the Indonesian archipelago – and the province of Papua in Indonesia is home to the largest tract. This report exposes...
- Profiting from Plunder: How Malaysia Smuggles Endangered Wood
Profiting from Plunder: How Malaysia Smuggles Endangered Wood
EIA and Telapak have repeatedly exposed the criminals behind this multi-billion dollar industry. In this report we expose the largest ever smuggling operation of the valuable and protected...
- ABOVE THE LAW: Corruption, Collusion, Nepotism and the Fate of Indonesia’s Forests
ABOVE THE LAW: Corruption, Collusion, Nepotism and the Fate of Indonesia’s Forests
Although poverty, economic collapse, provincial autonomy and many other factors contribute to forest destruction, these are not at the core of the problem. Forests are being destroyed because Indonesia...
- Unfinished Business
Unfinished Business
The Continued Illegal Trade in Ozone-Depleting Substances and the Threat Posed to the Montreal Protocol Phase-out
- A Crime Against Nature
A Crime Against Nature
Investigations by EIA prove that the integrity, effectiveness and successes of the Montreal Protocol are seriously imperiled by the large scale illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances (ODS). The findings of these investigations show that without new and additional actions to combat this illegal trade the on-going depletion of the world’s ozone layer will persist as a damning legacy of the 20th century.
- Chilling Facts About A Burning Issue
Chilling Facts About A Burning Issue
The large-scale, widespread and unchecked illegal trade in chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone depleting substances (ODS) within the European Union (EU) is undermining the success of the Montreal Protocol and directly threatens human health and ecological security worldwide.