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[Informe completo en espanol] LIMA, PERU – Today the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) launched a new report, Deforestation by Definition, exposing the ongoing and looming threat of illegal deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon due to installation of agro-industrial monoculture plantations, such as oil palm. Both national and international actors have requested tens of thousands of […]

Attempted cover up by Holzindustrie Schweighofer shows high-level involvementTo read in Romanian, please click here. WASHINGTON, D.C.—The leading German news magazine, Der Spiegel, has concluded that Austrian-based wood products company Holzindustrie Schweighofer (Schweighofer) repeatedly agreed to accept illegally harvested timber from undercover Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) investigators, and has exposed, for the first time, an […]

Deforestación por Definición – informe resumido en español. La versión completa en español estará disponible pronto. EIA has launched a new investigative report, Deforestation by Definition, exposing the ongoing and looming threat of illegal deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon due to installation of agro-industrial monoculture plantations, such as palm oil. Through analysis of Peruvian and […]

LIMA, PERU—Earlier this week, the Peruvian Congress’ Commission on Andean, Amazonian and Afro-Peruvian Peoples, the Environment and Ecology considered an “economic reactivation” bill that includes provisions that could weaken environmental protections in Peru. The bill builds upon Peruvian Law 30230, which was passed in July 2014. Law 30230 included a suite of stipulations that rolled […]

Last week in the cloud forest of Tarapoto, Peru, EIA’s partner Digital Democracy hosted a “hackathon” bringing together hackers from around the world, as well as environmental monitors, and indigenous organizations from Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru to develop environmental monitoring tools suitable for use in the rainforest. Hack the Rainforest allowed experts in mobile app […]