To read this release in Japanese, click here. To read EIA’s new report in Japanese, click here. WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report by the Washington, D.C.-based organization the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals that Japan’s largest trading companies are fueling illegal logging in Europe’s last great intact forests. The report, Built on Lies: New […]
The indiscriminate sourcing practices of Japanese companies are fueling illegal logging in Europe’s last remaining virgin forests. Since arriving in Romania in 2002, Holzindustrie Schweighofer, an Austrian-owned timber and wood processing company, has incentivized illegal logging through its sourcing policies. This new EIA report highlights the outsized role of Japanese companies and consumers in fueling […]
ROMANIA — Earlier this week, a physical assault on an environmental activist in the forests of Romania marked the latest in a string of such attacks around the world and further highlights the need for government authorities to take meaningful enforcement action in response. Gabriel Păun of the Romanian nonprofit Agent Green, on the invitation of […]
To read this release in Spanish, click here. WASHINGTON, D.C.—Yesterday, a search warrant was executed at the premises of Global Plywood and Lumber, a company found to be importing into the United States significant quantities of Amazonian timber declared illegal by the Peruvian government. The warrant was issued on the basis of probable cause that […]
Members of Maroon 5, Guster air documentary of Guatemalan rainforest visit with REVERB and the Environmental Investigation Agency to raise awareness of illegal logging’s environmental and human costs and spread support for sustainable alternativesLOS ANGELES – As the summer tour and festival season ramps up, concertgoers may encounter requests to pledge support for a campaign […]
BUCHAREST – On the eve of a spectacular concert in Bucharest’s Constitution Square on June 5, members of three-time Grammy award-winning American rock group Maroon 5 sent a letter to Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis, offering their support for Romania in its fight against illegal logging. The letter addresses Prime Minister Julien Cioloș and Minister of […]