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WASHINGTON, D.C.–The United States and Honduran governments must support an international, independent investigation into the killing of high-profile environmental activist Berta Cáceres said Global Witness (GW) and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) on the eve of a meeting between Honduras and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in Washington, D.C.1 The investigation should be […]

Musicians of Maroon 5 and Guster Express Support for Community Forest Management to President of GuatemalaTo read this release in Spanish, click here. GUATEMALA CITY – In a letter sent to Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales, Jesse Carmichael and James Valentine of Maroon 5 and Adam Gardner of Guster ask the President to support one of […]

Inspired by a recent trip to Guatemala with EIA and partner Reverb, Jesse Carmichael and James Valentine of Maroon 5 and Adam Gardner of Guster, have sent a letter to the President of Guatemala, asking him to support one of the world’s leading models of forest management. Forest concessions in northern Guatemala’s biodiverse Maya Biosphere […]

  In October 2013 Holzindustrie Schweighofer’s declared company policy on its website stated, “Holzindustrie Schweighofer does not accept logs and biomass deliveries coming from natural parks and protected areas.” However, this promise was blatantly violated in November 2014 when Gabriel Paun, director of the Romanian NGO Agent Green, followed a delivery truck out of Retezat […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and a coalition of environmental, human rights, faith-based and Indigenous organizations issued [a letter this week] to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry calling for immediate action in the aftermath of [Berta Cáceres’ assassination]. Berta Cáceres, winner of the prestigious 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize, was a visionary Indigenous and […]

“It’s the last forest which has a high conservation value and [has] the capacity to sustain life of hundreds of species of flora and fauna,” said Gabriel Paun, founder of Agent Green, an environmental protection non-profit in Romania. He is referring to the forests of Romania, home to the Europe’s last remaining old growth forest […]