Peru
Campaign Focus Areas
- Countries and Regions
Countries and Regions
Documenting and exposing crimes in forests around the globe, EIA works to reform forest governance and shut down networks that trade in illicit wood products and agricultural commodities driving deforestation
Resources
- EIA: Peru must guarantee safety of former forest inspector and his family, verify legal origin of timber exports
EIA: Peru must guarantee safety of former forest inspector and his family, verify legal origin of timber exports
Following an Associated Press investigation, EIA provides response to the continued illegal logging exposed in Peru
- EIA: Perú debe garantizar la seguridad de ex funcionario forestal y su familia, y verificar el origen legal de exportaciones de madera
EIA: Perú debe garantizar la seguridad de ex funcionario forestal y su familia, y verificar el origen legal de exportaciones de madera
A partir de la publicación de hoy de un informe de investigación de Associated Press sobre el comercio de madera ilegal del Perú a los Estados Unidos, la Agencia de Investigación Ambiental (Environmental Investigation Agency – EIA) solicita al...
- Peru Announces Improved Measures to Stop Illegal Timber Trade
Peru Announces Improved Measures to Stop Illegal Timber Trade
The Peruvian government committed to significantly improve measures to stop illegal logging and associated trade in its timber sector.
- U.S. Government Report Confirms Imports of Illegal Timber from Peru
U.S. Government Report Confirms Imports of Illegal Timber from Peru
In a report released yesterday by the U.S. government, Peruvian timber imported to the United States in January 2015 has been identified as largely illegally sourced, offering the latest example of illicit timber trafficking from Peru to the United States. The U.S. Timber Committee’s summary highlights...
- Who will pay for the illegal destruction of the Peruvian Amazon?
Who will pay for the illegal destruction of the Peruvian Amazon?
News broke recently in the Jakarta Post that two Peruvian oil palm plantations located in Peru’s Amazon region of Ucayali, Plantaciones de Pucallpa and Plantaciones de Ucayali, plan to sell land they control in the Peruvian Amazon...
- Illegally deforested Amazon land for sale by oil palm plantation operators in Peru
Illegally deforested Amazon land for sale by oil palm plantation operators in Peru
Maps published today confirm that land transferred by two oil palm plantations to a Peruvian trust services company, which is now auctioning off these properties, is located in illegally deforested Amazon rainforest. EIA mapped...
- Peruvian Government to London Stock Exchange: Support our actions against United Cacao
Peruvian Government to London Stock Exchange: Support our actions against United Cacao
Today, May 24 2016, the national forestry authority in Peru (SERFOR) issued a public statement confirming the illegal operations of United Cacao’s subsidiary in the country, clarifying, once again that the company does not have the required environmental approval. Citing large scale illegal...
- LETTER: EIA, Indigenous Groups Write Letter, Calling for Removal of United Cacao Ltd. from LSE
LETTER: EIA, Indigenous Groups Write Letter, Calling for Removal of United Cacao Ltd. from LSE
In a sign-on letter sent to the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), over 60 indigenous organizations and NGOs from Peru, Europe, and the United States raise grave concerns related to ongoing illegal...
- LSE Financing Illegal Deforestation in Peru via AIM-listed United Cacao Ltd. SEZC
LSE Financing Illegal Deforestation in Peru via AIM-listed United Cacao Ltd. SEZC
In a briefing by the Environmental Investigation Agency, evidence reveals that United Cacao Limited SEZC, traded on the London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), financed over 11,100 hectares of illegal deforestation...
- United Cacao Breaks AIM Rules
United Cacao Breaks AIM Rules
Today over 60 indigenous organizations and NGOs from Peru, Europe, and the United States called for United Cacao Limited SEZC (ticker symbol: CHOC) to be removed from trading on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange...