Wake up call: In the forests of Guatemala, members of Maroon 5 and Guster discover the good and the bad of wood sourcing options To read this blog post in Spanish, please click here. Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve played host to world-renowned rockstars last December. James Valentine and Jesse Carmichael of Maroon 5 and Adam […]
EIA Denounces Termination of Peruvian Forest Oversight Body President, in apparent effort to allow illegal wood to enter the United StatesTo read this release in Spanish, click here. WASHINGTON, D.C.—In response to news today that the Peruvian government is acting to silence its own civil servants exposing the embedded illegal timber mafias in the country, […]
Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) are gathered this week in Geneva for the 66th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee. On the agenda are critical protections for precious timbers from Madagascar, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and West Africa. EIA has prepared two briefings highlighting the need for CITES member […]
TOKYO—An official at the Japanese government-appointed agency that controls the country’s domestic ivory market is encouraging illegal trade in elephant tusks. The official advised an undercover investigator how to fraudulently register a tusk as legal and how to obstruct a potential police investigation, according to evidence obtained by the non-profit Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). The […]
Under Japan’s domestic ivory laws, all persons looking to trade elephant tusks must first register them with the Japanese Wildlife Research Center (JWRC) to prove they were imported prior to the 1989 international ban on ivory trade. However, in several phone calls with EIA investigators in 2015, a JWRC official repeatedly offered advice and suggestions […]
Under Japan’s domestic ivory laws, all persons looking to trade elephant tusks must first register them with the Japanese Wildlife Research Center (JWRC) to prove they were imported prior to the 1989 international ban on ivory trade. However, in several phone calls with EIA investigators in 2015, a JWRC official repeatedly offered advice and suggestions […]