Japan is the world’s the fourth largest importer of wood products, after China, the United States, and the European Union. Much of Japan’s timber imports come from countries or regions with a known prevalence of illegal logging, such as Malaysia’s Sarawak state, Indonesia, or Russia, or as finished products from China, itself the world’s largest […]
Weak governance threatens rich forests Honduras contains substantial timber resources: pine, broadleaf, and mangrove forests cover nearly 50 percent of the country’s land and represent a quarter of Central America’s wildlife-rich forests. The nation is also home to significant stretches of protected areas including the extraordinarily bio-diverse Río Plátano Biosphere, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Following today’s release of an Associated Press investigation into the illegal timber trade from Peru to the United States, the Environmental Investigation Agency requests the Peruvian government to provide for the safety of former chief forest inspector Rolando Navarro and his family, to ensure he can return to Peru after 15 months […]
To read this release in English, click here. WASHINGTON, DC – A partir de la publicación de hoy de un informe de investigación de Associated Press sobre el comercio de madera ilegal del Perú a los Estados Unidos, la Agencia de Investigación Ambiental (Environmental Investigation Agency – EIA) solicita al Gobierno Peruano que garantice la […]
Trader smuggled 50 million dollars’ worth of rosewood into Singapore, expects jail On March 30, a court in Singapore convicted businessman Mr. Wong Wee Keong and his company for smuggling nearly 30,000 illegal Malagasy rosewood logs, worth $50 million U.S. dollars, into the country. The wood, which was shipped from Madagascar despite an export ban, […]
Sunday, April 9 at 8:10 GMT, the German documentary program Spiegel TV Magazin investigates illegal logging in Europe’s last virgin forests and documents the shady business practices of an Austrian timber giant. Learn more