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- Exposed: The Gambia’s Blood Wood Trafficking
Exposed: The Gambia’s Blood Wood Trafficking
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)’s new report, Cashing-In On Chaos, conclusively establishes links between timber trafficking controlled by Senegalese armed rebels; the decade-long smuggling of an estimated 1.6 million trees from Senegal to The Gambia; and the illegal re-export of the disappearing rosewood trees to China, in violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Some of EIA’s findings are featured in the BBC’s documentary The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia, released in March 2020.
- Cashing-In On Chaos
Cashing-In On Chaos
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)’s three-year investigation into the Senegal-Gambia-China rosewood traffic uncovered unprecedented evidence on a series of major forest crimes.
- Civil Society Statement on the Weakening of Institutions and Governance in the Forest Sector
Civil Society Statement on the Weakening of Institutions and Governance in the Forest Sector
Civil Society Statement on the Weakening of Institutions and Governance in the Forest Sector
Private Sector & Asian Supply Chain Advisor, Forests Campaigns
The Environmental Investigation Agency, a 501(c)(3) non-profit advocacy organization based in Washington DC, is seeking a motivated, organized and committed campaigner to join one of the most dynamic advocacy teams in Washington today.
Brazil Campaigner
EIA-US is looking for an experienced and highly motivated campaigner to work with the Forest Campaign’s Latin America and Commodities teams, with a particular focus on Brazil.
- EIA looks forward to the release of an uncensored rosewood investigative report by the Ghanaian government
EIA looks forward to the release of an uncensored rosewood investigative report by the Ghanaian government
EIA looks forward to the release of an uncensored rosewood investigative report by the Ghanaian government
- EIA Welcomes China's New Law to Ban Illegal Timber
EIA Welcomes China's New Law to Ban Illegal Timber
EIA Welcomes China's New Law to Ban Illegal Timber
- ANNOUNCE A ZERO EXPORT QUOTA NOW
ANNOUNCE A ZERO EXPORT QUOTA NOW
Zambia has at is fingertips an unprecedented opportunity to solve the mukula crisis and stop further forest plunder; will they seize the moment?
- Mukula Cartel
Mukula Cartel
In Zambia the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) found that a handful of very high profile figures have apparently orchestrated and facilitated massive trafficking operations for years that are driving mukula rosewood trees to the edge of commercial extinction, devastating vulnerable forests and threatening communities’ livelihoods.
- Mukula Cartel
Mukula Cartel
In Zambia the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) found that a handful of very high profile figures have apparently orchestrated and facilitated massive trafficking operations for years that are driving mukula rosewood trees to the edge of commercial extinction, devastating vulnerable forests and threatening communities’ livelihoods