One of the poorest countries in Latin America, Honduras is losing up to $18 million a year in lost stumpage fees and other forest-based revenue. Yet this is only the tip of the iceberg of a massive, nationwide, resource rip-off by major timber and wood product producers and their high level political backers. An estimated […]
In a reversal of historic American leadership based on transparency and accountability, the U.S. government has refused to divulge information about methyl bromide stockpiles. Instead, U.S. industry has been allowed to secret massive quantities of methyl bromide in order to enable long-term circumvention of the methyl bromide cessation. Past experience with other ozone depleting substances, […]
Asia has already lost 95 per cent of its frontier forests. Most of what remains is confined to the Indonesian archipelago – and the province of Papua in Indonesia is home to the largest tract. This report exposes how these last precious forests are being illegally felled and sold off wholesale to China, which is […]
EIA and Telapak have repeatedly exposed the criminals behind this multi-billion dollar industry. In this report we expose the largest ever smuggling operation of the valuable and protected tree species ramin to Malaysia.
A report on global chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) smuggling trends and the need for a faster phase-out. Despite the significant achievements of the Montreal Protocol, the problem of illegal trade persists. The illegal trade in ozone-depleting substances has not been addressed in any coherent manner by the Protocol and the slow reaction to the problem of enforcement […]
Although poverty, economic collapse, provincial autonomy and many other factors contribute to forest destruction, these are not at the core of the problem. Forests are being destroyed because Indonesia is one of the most corrupt countries in the world and many in the political, business and military elite are unwilling to surrender the wealth and […]