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EIA and Digital Democracy support innovations in Indigenous forest monitoringTo read in Spanish, [click here]. WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is partnering with the San Francisco-based nonprofit organization Digital Democracy to support Indigenous peoples’ organizations to monitor and document rights violations and illegal logging in the Peruvian Amazon. The partnership aims to reduce illegality […]

By Amy Zets, EIA Policy Analyst Rhinos are dying at a shocking rate – every week news releases remind us that the slaughter of South Africa’s rhinos is still wildly out of control. On average, more than three rhinos are poached each day. This week marks two years since EIA and partners submitted a petition […]

In her December 12, 2014 article, Peruvian journalist Dánae Rivadeneyra details the steps by which Peruvian timber is laundered at alarming rates. Her investigation confirms EIA’s findings, which were published in The Laundering Machine: how fraud and corruption in Peru’s concession system are destroying the future of its forests and includes the key role official […]

For French translation, please see below. Last week, EIA organized an unprecedented regional workshop for Civil Society Organizations (CSOs), local communities, and Indigenous people groups in the Congo Basin to address the emerging threat of palm oil development in the region. Nearly 40 civil society experts and community leaders from over 25 organizations gathered in […]

By Amanda Monaco, EIA Forest Team Fellow At the 20th Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), held in Lima December 1 through 14, a series of speakers presenting at the “Voices for Climate, Indigenous Pavilion” focused on drivers of deforestation, highlighting the production of palm oil as […]

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) welcomes today the launch of the multi-sector working group, known as the National Pact for Legal Wood, established to combat illegal logging in Peru. Comprised of nonprofit organizations and private sector agencies, the National Pact will attempt to address the problem of illegal logging and the associated trade of illegal […]