WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, officials of the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and United States Department of State will visit Lima, Peru to discuss environmental rollbacks included in Law 30230, a law recently passed in Peru to promote private investment. The law is a violation of Peru’s obligations under the Free Trade Agreement […]
Madagascar’s unparalleled National Parks, which are also UNESCO World Heritage sites, are being infiltrated and destroyed by illegal loggers. The livelihoods of many Malagasy citizens and the wildlife that depend on these resources are being systematically plundered by timber mafias who feed end markets that forgo legality and sustainability. The illegal harvest and smuggling of […]
In this statement, EIA commends China’s State Forestry Administration’s increased attention to the globally important issue of the illegal timber trade, and its increasingly consultative approach to policy development. However, EIA believes another round of voluntary guidelines of limited scope will undermine China’s stated aims of promoting normal trade in forest products, and in ways […]
LIMA, PERU—In his annual “Message to the Nation” Peruvian President Ollanta Humala avoided any reference to the environment. Delivered on Monday, the speech, which is similar to the State of the Union given by U.S. Presidents, offered President Humala the opportunity to recommit his administration’s efforts to environmental protection. As Peru will host the 20th […]
Over 100 international organizations have signed a letter to Peruvian President Ollanta Humala asking that he withdraw support for legislation, passed July 3 by the Peruvian Congress, that will force environmental rollbacks in a misguided attempt to increase private investment. EIA, one of the signatories to the letter, is calling on Humala to veto the […]
Since 2009, the impoverished island nation of Madagascar has fallen prey to a mafia a of illegal rosewood traders, threatening all that remains of its once pristine forests, home to some of the world’s greatest and most spectacular biodiversity. Madagascar’s protected rosewood trees, now found only in remote corners of its national parks, are the […]