WASHINGTON, D.C. — The non-profit Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) announced today that it has formally petitioned the U.S. Government to take action under the US-Peru Free Trade Agreement to investigate and verify the legal origin of shipments from at least two Peruvian companies and to audit dozens more. On April 10th, EIA released results from […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A multi-year investigative report released today by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) reveals evidence that since 2008 over twenty US companies have imported millions of dollars in illegal wood from the Peruvian Amazon. This trade appears to be in violation of US and international endangered species laws as well as the US-Peru […]
How Fraud and Corruption in Peru’s Concession System are Destroying the Future of its Forests To download this report click here. In this report, EIA documents for the first time the systematic export and import of illegal wood from Peru to the United States. In many ways, this report not a new story: the system’s […]
En este informe EIA logra documentar por primera vez la exportación e importación sistemática de madera ilegal de Perú a EEUU. Aquí no se cuenta una historia nueva: la corrupción en el sistema forestal y cómo funciona es algo que todos en el sector conocen. El aporte de EIA está en haber identificado y recolectado […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) commends Norway’s divestment of its pension fund’s shares in Malaysian loggers Samling Global this week, but calls for a more comprehensive review of the fund’s wider investments of over $400 million in other controversial forestry and plantation companies. On 23rd August, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance announced […]
ANAHEIM – As tens of thousands of people gather for the opening of the NAMM Show, the National Association of Music Merchants’ biggest annual event, musicians and environmental groups called on the industry to change the tune it’s singing in Washington by ending its support for illegal logging. Standing outside NAMM’s conference, renowned musicians joined […]