Videos
- The Lie Behind the Ply
The Lie Behind the Ply
In an unprecedented investigation that connects threatened forests of Solomon Islands, China’s timber manufacturing hubs, and European importers, our new report The Lie Behind the Ply reveals how European consumers of tropical plywood have been the unwitting drivers of forest degradation. Our findings show that European companies appear to have imported thousands of tons of tropical-faced plywood, at high risk of containing illegal wood and in apparent violation of European law.
- Tainted Beef
- Carne Contaminada
- Has HS Timber Achieved Full Traceability?
Has HS Timber Achieved Full Traceability?
As the FSC considers reassociating with HS Timber in 2021, we ask: Has HS Timber achieved full traceability? We analyzed Romania's transparent timber traceability system, Forest Inspector, to try and find out.
- Leaking Havoc: Exposing Your Supermarket’s Invisible Climate Pollution
Leaking Havoc: Exposing Your Supermarket’s Invisible Climate Pollution
An EIA investigation into dozens of supermarkets in the greater Washington, D.C. area, including Virginia and Maryland, found a majority of stores to be leaking super-pollutant hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants
- White Whale, Gold Mine - Live Premiere
- 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.
- How to Use Romania's Forest Inspector
How to Use Romania's Forest Inspector
Forest Inspector, a real-time map-based presentation of all timber transports in Romania, has been updated to include significant levels of transparency to an already impressive online tool. EIA has created a short video tutorial introducing the website’s new and existing features.
- 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
- Japan’s Ivory Trade Faces Intensifying Opposition at Home and Abroad (Japanese Subtitles)
Japan’s Ivory Trade Faces Intensifying Opposition at Home and Abroad (Japanese Subtitles)
Japan’s Ivory Trade Faces Intensifying Opposition at Home and Abroad
- Japan’s Ivory Trade Faces Intensifying Opposition at Home and Abroad
Japan’s Ivory Trade Faces Intensifying Opposition at Home and Abroad
Japan’s Ivory Trade Faces Intensifying Opposition at Home and Abroad
- Raw Intelligence: GOCA
Raw Intelligence: GOCA
Mr. Lu is the Secretary of the Association of Overseas Chinese in Gabon and a leading figure in the Forest Union of the Asian Industry in Gabon (UFIAG). He doesn’t miss an opportunity to publicly defend Chinese logging companies in Gabon, and to assert that these entrepreneurs operate with the best of intentions.
- Intelligence Brute: ACOG
Intelligence Brute: ACOG
M. Lu est le secrétaire de l'Association des Chinois d'outre-mer au Gabon et une des figures de proue de l'Union forestière des industries asiatiques du Gabon (UFIAG). Il ne manque pas une occasion de défendre publiquement les sociétés forestières asiatiques et d’affirmer que ces entrepreneurs agissent avec les meilleures intentions du monde.
- Scheduled Extinction: Our Last Chance to Protect the Threatened African Mukula Trees
Scheduled Extinction: Our Last Chance to Protect the Threatened African Mukula Trees
Scheduled Extinction: Our Last Chance to Protect the Threatened African Mukula Trees
- Raw Intelligence: Hua Jia
Raw Intelligence: Hua Jia
In this fourth installment of EIA’s Raw Intelligence series, we introduce you to the company Hua Jia – one of the most emblematic timber companies in Gabon. Hua Jia officials had much to say on how they and others in the industry operate – and cheat their way to profit-laden pockets.
- Intelligence Brute: Hua Jia
Intelligence Brute: Hua Jia
Dans ce quatrième volet de la série Intelligence Brute d’EIA, nous vous présentons la société Hua Jia, l’une des sociétés forestières les plus emblématiques du Gabon. Les responsables de Hua Jia avaient beaucoup à dire sur la façon dont eux-mêmes et d’autres compagnies opèrent.
- BAN-boozled: How Corruption and Collusion Fuel the Illegal Rosewood Trade in Ghana
BAN-boozled: How Corruption and Collusion Fuel the Illegal Rosewood Trade in Ghana
This EIA investigation found that despite a 5th generation ban placed on the harvest and trade of rosewood (Pterocarpus erinaceus) in Ghana in March 2019 and a CITES appendix II listing that came into force in January 2017, massive illegal logging and export of Ghanaian rosewood to China continues unabated and with impunity.
- Raw Intelligence: TBNI
Raw Intelligence: TBNI
The managers of the company Transport Bois Négoce International (TBNI) know how to make big money off of logging the Congo Basin forest while keeping their profit hidden from Gabonese authorities. Yet their methods remain a secret no more, as company officials described in detail to EIA investigators the tricks of their trade.
- Intelligence Brute: TBNI
Intelligence Brute: TBNI
Les dirigeants de la société Transport Bois Négoce International (TBNI) savent comment gagner beaucoup d’argent en exploitant les forêts du Bassin du Congo, tout en gardant leurs bénéfices bien cachés aux yeux des autorités gabonaises. Mais leurs méthodes ne sont plus un secret, car l’un des responsables de la société a décrit en détail ces manigances aux enquêteurs sous-couverts d'EIA.
- Raw Intelligence: WCTS
Raw Intelligence: WCTS
In this second installment of EIA’s Raw Intelligence series, we introduce you to the company Wan Chuan Timber Sarl (WCTS) – perhaps the worst offender of crimes committed against the forests and the people of Gabon.
- Intelligence Brute: WCTS
Intelligence Brute: WCTS
Dans ce deuxième volet de la série Intelligence Brute d’EIA, nous vous présentons la société Wan Chuan Timber Sarl (WCTS), très probablement l’un des pires responsables de crimes commis contre les forêts du Gabon et les personnes qui en dépendent.
- Toxic Trade: Forest Crime in Gabon and the Republic of Congo and Contamination of the US Market
Toxic Trade: Forest Crime in Gabon and the Republic of Congo and Contamination of the US Market
For four years, EIA has investigated the logging sector in the Congo and Gabon, countries that together account for approximately 60 percent of the total area under forest management in the Congo Basin. EIA’s findings reveal that one of the largest and most influential Chinese timber companies in Africa, the “Dejia Group,” has built its business model on bribery and crime.
- Authorized Plunder
Authorized Plunder
A new report by EIA, Authorized Plunder, documents the sale of 180,000 rosewood logs in Guinea-Bissau, enabled by the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), is fueled by high-level corruption, encourages illegal logging, and threatens local communities.
- 象牙のハンコ:日本の違法な象牙取引&アフリカ ゾウの悲劇の元凶
- How Ivory Hanko Destroyed African's Elephants and Drives Japan's Illegal Ivory Trade
How Ivory Hanko Destroyed African's Elephants and Drives Japan's Illegal Ivory Trade
Japan’s demand for hanko made of elephant ivory is a modern phenomenon driven by the country’s ivory industry.