As a result of the island’s geological isolation from neighboring continents over the ages, Madagascar is home to an exuberant diversity of natural life. Approximately 90 percent of all plant and animal species found on the island are endemic, including the emblematic lemurs. Fragile and unique Malagasy ecosystems have unfortunately been facing growing threats. Over the […]
Japan is the world’s the fourth largest importer of wood products, after China, the United States, and the European Union. Much of Japan’s timber imports come from countries or regions with a known prevalence of illegal logging, such as Malaysia’s Sarawak state, Indonesia, or Russia, or as finished products from China, itself the world’s largest […]
Weak governance threatens rich forests Honduras contains substantial timber resources: pine, broadleaf, and mangrove forests cover nearly 50 percent of the country’s land and represent a quarter of Central America’s wildlife-rich forests. The nation is also home to significant stretches of protected areas including the extraordinarily bio-diverse Río Plátano Biosphere, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. […]
By Christina Starr, EIA Climate Policy Analyst With the adoption of a new safety standard today by Underwriters Laboratories (UL), U.S. consumers are one step closer to being able to purchase household refrigerators free of climate damaging hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants. The HFC-free refrigerators will make less noise, be substantially more energy efficient, and avoid millions […]
WASHINGTON DC – The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today accused the Government of Japan of planning to increase its ivory trade by launching a campaign to register ivory tusks that will directly threaten the success of China’s ban on domestic ivory trade. The government claims the new campaign is intended to “control” ivory trade. “Japan’s […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Following today’s release of an Associated Press investigation into the illegal timber trade from Peru to the United States, the Environmental Investigation Agency requests the Peruvian government to provide for the safety of former chief forest inspector Rolando Navarro and his family, to ensure he can return to Peru after 15 months […]