EIA has led a coalition of environmental organizations in an open letter to SoftBank and Yahoo! Japan executives, urging an end to ivory sales on Yahoo! Japan’s auction site. To read the open letter, click here. To read this letter in Japanese, click here. For more background on this issue, read EIA’s press release: NGO […]
In October 2013 Holzindustrie Schweighofer’s declared company policy on its website stated, “Holzindustrie Schweighofer does not accept logs and biomass deliveries coming from natural parks and protected areas.” However, this promise was blatantly violated in November 2014 when Gabriel Paun, director of the Romanian NGO Agent Green, followed a delivery truck out of Retezat […]
TOKYO—Six Japanese ivory trading companies that sell ivory via the popular shopping site Yahoo! Japan auctions offered to engage in illegal activities to buy, sell, acquire, or fraudulently register an unregistered ivory tusk. The companies’ culpable behavior is exposed in recordings released today by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a nonprofit group based in Washington, […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and a coalition of environmental, human rights, faith-based and Indigenous organizations issued [a letter this week] to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry calling for immediate action in the aftermath of [Berta Cáceres’ assassination]. Berta Cáceres, winner of the prestigious 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize, was a visionary Indigenous and […]
“It’s the last forest which has a high conservation value and [has] the capacity to sustain life of hundreds of species of flora and fauna,” said Gabriel Paun, founder of Agent Green, an environmental protection non-profit in Romania. He is referring to the forests of Romania, home to the Europe’s last remaining old growth forest […]
By Danielle Fest Grabiel, Senior Policy Analyst Today is World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate as well as critically evaluate how well we are addressing the most pressing threats to wildlife, in particular wildlife trafficking. EIA has been working to put an end to the illegal trade in wildlife for more than 25 years, […]