Press Releases
- Amazon.com Removes Whale Products From Japan Website
Amazon.com Removes Whale Products From Japan Website
Internet giant Amazon.com appears to have removed all whale products from its wholly owned Japanese website overnight, following worldwide publicity that scores of whale...
- Amazon.com Profits From Slaughter of Whales
Amazon.com Profits From Slaughter of Whales
Internet marketplace giant Amazon.com is today called on to stop supporting commercial whaling by immediately and permanently banning the sale of all products from whales...
- International environmental organizations call on Japan to stop buying illegal timber
International environmental organizations call on Japan to stop buying illegal timber
A group of 16 environmental organizations are today calling on Japan to put in place stronger measures to stop the trade in illegal timber. Writing in an open letter to two Japanese trade...
- Massive Climate Subsidies to Super Greenhouse Gas Industry to Continue
Massive Climate Subsidies to Super Greenhouse Gas Industry to Continue
D.C. - As UNFCCC climate negotiators meet in Durban, EIA is calling on all Parties to reject HFC-23 carbon credits following widespread evidence and CDM Executive Board acknowledgement that most of the credits...
- China Threatens Massive Venting of Super Greenhouse Gases
China Threatens Massive Venting of Super Greenhouse Gases
China Threatens Massive Venting of Super Greenhouse Gases in Attempt to Extort Billions as UNFCCC Meeting Approaches In the run‐up to the international climate negotiations in Durban later this month, China has responded...
- U.S. Lacey Act Wins 2011 Future Policy Award
U.S. Lacey Act Wins 2011 Future Policy Award
The United States’ prohibition on smuggling of illegally harvested wood has won silver in the 2011 Future Policy Awards as one of the world’s most inspiring and innovative forest policies. The three policies most effectively contributing to the conservation...
- UPDATE EIA Statement Regarding 24 August 2011 Gibson Guitars Raid by US Fish & Wildlife Service
UPDATE EIA Statement Regarding 24 August 2011 Gibson Guitars Raid by US Fish & Wildlife Service
Much of the media coverage regarding the latest enforcement action contains factual errors and misinformation about both the Lacey Act and the cases in question. Below, EIA has attempted to address some common questions in the wake of...
- EIA Statement Regarding 24 August 2011 Gibson Guitars Raid by US Fish & Wildlife Service
EIA Statement Regarding 24 August 2011 Gibson Guitars Raid by US Fish & Wildlife Service
On 24 August 2011, agents of the Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) raided Gibson Guitar facilities in Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee, seizing ebony and rosewood material, guitars and guitar parts as evidence of suspected violation(s) of the U.S. Lacey Act...
- Montreal Protocol Limiting HFCs in Response to Global Warming
Montreal Protocol Limiting HFCs in Response to Global Warming
While international climate talks remain deadlocked, the Montreal Protocol has been methodically eliminating some of the worst chemicals contributing to global warming. International ozone negotiators meeting in Montreal last week approved country plans to...
- Vietnamese Army Named As Timber Smuggler
Vietnamese Army Named As Timber Smuggler
A new report released today (July 28, 2011) exposes the pivotal role played by the Vietnamese military in a multi-million dollar operation which is smuggling threatened timber over the border from the shrinking forests of neighbouring Laos...
- US Companies Dealing Plywood from Illegally Logged Malaysian Forests
US Companies Dealing Plywood from Illegally Logged Malaysian Forests
A report released today in Australia describes how a major Australian wood products company imports plywood made from forests in Malaysia where systematic illegal logging has taken place. New data revealed by the Environmental Investigation Agency...
- CDM Methodology for HFC-23 Credits Should be Retired
CDM Methodology for HFC-23 Credits Should be Retired
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling for an end to the expensive UN program that pays over a billion dollars a year to capture and destroy the super greenhouse gas HFC-23. On the eve of an expected decision by the UN’s Clean Development...
- Trade in Illegal Wood Uncovered
Trade in Illegal Wood Uncovered
Consumer demand for expensive rosewood furniture and musical instruments in China and elsewhere is the primary driver of an ecologically devastating trade in illegal timber, according to a report published today by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and...
- World Bank Attempting to Sabotage Reform of CDM HFC-23 Projects
World Bank Attempting to Sabotage Reform of CDM HFC-23 Projects
In an effort to justify its participation in perhaps the biggest carbon market scandal to date, the World Bank has dismissed concerns that the UN Clean Development Mechanism's (CDM) HFC-23 projects are generating millions of fake carbon credits...
- Rouge Traders In Timber Smuggling Exposed
Rouge Traders In Timber Smuggling Exposed
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak today (August 5, 2010) name two of the kingpins in Indonesia profiteering from the hugely lucrative international trade in stolen timber...
- CDM Panel calls for investigation over Carbon Market Scandal
CDM Panel calls for investigation over Carbon Market Scandal
A coalition of environmental NGOs today said that the UN Executive Board has to follow up on the CDM Panel’s recommendation for a thorough investigation to adequately address fundamental flaws in Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) rules that...
- TTF Welcome EU Move To Ban Illegal Timber
TTF Welcome EU Move To Ban Illegal Timber
The TTF has welcomed impending EU legislation to ban illegal timber entering the EU market. Currently it is not against the law to sell timber in the EU that was chopped down illegally in its country of origin...
- Landmark Legislation’s Anniversary Highlights Strong Need for Continued Efforts to Curb Illegal Logging
Landmark Legislation’s Anniversary Highlights Strong Need for Continued Efforts to Curb Illegal Logging
Marking the amended Lacey Act’s two-year anniversary, US Senator Ron Wyden and IUS Congressman Earl Blumenauer today praised the landmark legislation for protecting the environment, leveling the playing field for honest...
- Illegal Logging Declines As Tougher Policies, Enforcement Rise
Illegal Logging Declines As Tougher Policies, Enforcement Rise
Illegal logging declined as much as 25% worldwide over the past decade, with reductions as high as 50% - 75% in key countries, but work is not done, according to a new study released by the London-based think tank Chatham House...
- New Report: Yahoo! Profiting From Killing of Whales, Dolphins and Elephants
New Report: Yahoo! Profiting From Killing of Whales, Dolphins and Elephants
A new report released today reveals that Internet giant Yahoo! is involved in extensive trade in whales, dolphins and elephant ivory products. The report, "Yahoo! and the Sale of Whale, Dolphin and Elephant Products," is published...
- Furniture, Musical Instruments Must Declare Basic Information Under U.S. Lacey Act
Furniture, Musical Instruments Must Declare Basic Information Under U.S. Lacey Act
April 1, 2010 marks the beginning of enforcement for basic information transparency requirements under the Lacey Act for guitars, revolvers, hand tools, pool cues and certain types of furniture...
- Obama Administration Poised to Decide Fate of African Elephants
Obama Administration Poised to Decide Fate of African Elephants
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has appealed to President Obama and the US government to support Kenya, the birthplace of Obama’s father, which is leading efforts by 20 African nations to maintain elephant protection and oppose ivory trade at the CITES meeting in Doha...
- Environmental Groups Call on Delmas To Cancel Shipment of Precious Wood From Madagascar
Environmental Groups Call on Delmas To Cancel Shipment of Precious Wood From Madagascar
Global Witness and the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today called on French shipping company Delmas to cancel a shipment to China of hundreds of tons of rosewood from the port of Vohémar, in northeastern Madagascar...
- Elephant Poaching and Illegal Ivory Trade Out of Control
Elephant Poaching and Illegal Ivory Trade Out of Control
A new report released today exposes large-scale illegal ivory trade in Tanzania and Zambia on the eve of the opening of the meeting of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha...
- Setting the Story Straight The U.S. Lacey Act: Separating Myth from Reality
Setting the Story Straight The U.S. Lacey Act: Separating Myth from Reality
In 2008 the United States amended its long-standing Lacey Act to prohibit commerce in illegally sourced plants, including wood products. The new law is a significant change for the forest products sector...