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PEFC Austria Files Complaint Against Holzindustrie SchweighoferWASHINGTON, D.C. — Following company claims that undercover footage from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) showing officials accepting illegal wood was “unfounded,” the Austrian-based forest products company Holzindustrie Schweighofer now faces a formal complaint on compliance from the global forest certification organization PEFC. In a letter released today, PEFC officials […]

By Eric Parfait Essomba, EIA Congo Basin Campaigner This past June, more than 600 stakeholders met in Yaoundé, Cameroon as part of the 15th Meeting of Parties of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP). The CBFP is a multi-stakeholder partnership that was launched in 2002 during the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South […]

EIA has created a briefing to provide an overview of Peru’s Agency for Supervision of Forest Resources and Wildlife (OSINFOR), an autonomous government entity with sanctioning powers that has conducted thousands of field inspections of logging operations since 2009. OSINFOR’s contribution to increasing forest oversight and supply chain transparency offers a unique model with lessons […]

NGOs and Public Personalities Denounce Illegal Rosewood Traffic in Madagascar’s Protected Areas Following Violence to Environmental ActivistsTo read this release in French, click here. MADAGASCAR—While the Malagasy environmental activist Armand Marozafy was denied his request for parole this very day, Isabelle Autissier, Françis Hallé, Thierry Lhermitte, Yann Arthus-Bertrand, and Alexander von Bismarck appear together in a […]

EIA’s official 2014 Annual Report includes a complete financial report as well as the major accomplishments achieved by each of our three core campaigns. To mark its 25 years of success, this report also includes a look back at EIA’s history of lasting solutions to environmental crime around the world. To read the full 2014 […]

EIA has signed onto a letter with over 40 nonprofit and nongovernmental groups to voice strong opposition to proposed fast track legislation of a U.S. trade agreement that seriously threatens the environment. U.S. involvement in trade negotiations should be guided by democracy, transparency, political accountability, and must lead to a “race to the top” that […]