環境調査エージェンシー（EIA）は、ルーマニアの二番目に大きな国立公園でオーストリア木材大手Holzindustrie Schweighofer社と関連する違法伐採の明らかな証拠を発見した。ルーマニアの国立公園はヨーロッパに残された最後の野生の自然の一部を擁しているが、それは、破壊的な商業伐採と違法伐採の深刻な脅威に晒されている。海外市場の木材需要、ルーマニアの木材サプライチェーンの有効なトレーサビリティ(追跡可能性)の欠如、そしてシュバイクホファー社のような大手木材買付企業が調達から不適切な木材を排除できずにいることにより、ヨーロッパの最後の壮大な森林が広範囲で破壊されている。 ルーマニアで最も多くの針葉樹丸太を消費する企業であるHolzindustrie [...]
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has found clear evidence of illegal logging in Romania’s second largest national park, linked to Holzindustrie Schweighofer, an Austrian timber giant. Romania’s national parks encompass some of the last remaining wilderness areas in Europe, but they are under severe threat due to destructive commercial and illegal logging. Foreign market […]
At COP17 in 2016, CITES parties approved a new Action Plan for Madagascar in an effort to assist the country to finally solve the country’s rosewood crisis and stop illegal trafficking in precious woods. The CITES Secretariat, as well as EIA and other observers had then found that the previous action plan, adopted in 2013, […]
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On April 2nd, 2014, Sri Lankan customs officials announced the seizure of 420 metric tons (3,669 logs) of rosewood.1 At the time, officials proclaimed that this was the largest ever recorded seizure of rosewood.2 According to CMA CGM online tracking3, the 28 containers seized by Sri Lankan authorities were originally loaded in Zanzibar on March 2nd, […]
WASHINGTON, DC – One of the largest timber smuggling operations in history is revealed today by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) in a report that shows how over 1.4 million illegal rosewood logs from Nigeria, worth US$300 million, were laundered into China. Multiple independent sources told EIA undercover investigators that over US$1 million was paid […]