Washington D.C. – As of this week, the Dutch competent authority has ordered the company Sakol Nederland B.V. (“Sakol”) to cease importing in violation of the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR) a tropical face plywood product from Jiangsu High Hope Arser Co. Ltd. (“Arser”). Arser is one of the largest plywood exporters in China. This […]
Cameroon Government Backtracks on the Ebo Forest WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement (CED) commends the Cameroon Prime Minister’s recent actions to suspend logging projects in the Ebo Forest, one of the last intact forests in central Africa. The area includes ancestral lands for local […]
Piden a Presidente del Perú que atienda la Emergencia Humanitaria en Comunidades Indígenas de la Amazonía En el contexto del COVID-19, más de 100 organizaciones de la sociedad civil peruana e internacional respaldan las demandas de las organizaciones indígenas del Perú. Mediante una carta pública dirigida al Presidente del Perú, Martín Vizcarra, más de cien […]
President of Peru Asked to Address the Humanitarian Emergency in Indigenous Communities of the Amazon In the context of COVID-19, more than 100 Peruvian and international civil society organizations support the demands of Peru’s indigenous organizations. Through a public letter addressed to the President of Peru, Martín Vizcarra, more than a hundred organizations of Peruvian […]
Lima, July 23, 2020 –The Regional Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the East (ORPIO) in the Peruvian State of Loreto has filed a lawsuit stating that the regional government would violate Peru’s constitution by restarting logging in the midst of the pandemic in forests that are home to indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. The […]
As exports and imports worldwide are estimated to be at their lowest levels in four years due to the impact of COVID-19, Ghana, a key epicenter of the rosewood trade in West Africa, is no exception to this trend. International trade data shows that Ghana’s volume of timber exports are also at a 5 year […]