Press Releases
- New Analysis of Toxic Whale & Dolphin Meet Shows Japan Gambling with Human Health
New Analysis of Toxic Whale & Dolphin Meet Shows Japan Gambling with Human Health
As Japan’s annual coastal whale and dolphin hunting season began today with the aim of killing more than 15,000 marine mammals, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released new evidence that the Government of Japan continues to recklessly...
- Ad Campaign Urges Protection of Arctic from Commercial Whaling Trade
Ad Campaign Urges Protection of Arctic from Commercial Whaling Trade
A coalition of animal welfare and conservation organizations launched a two-week advertising campaign today on Alaska Dispatch News to coincide with the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER)...
- Colombian Land Activist Threatened by Paramilitaries Linked to Oil Palm Company Poligrow
Colombian Land Activist Threatened by Paramilitaries Linked to Oil Palm Company Poligrow
This week, Colombian environmental and land activist William Aljure was threatened by paramilitary leaders and followed by two unidentified men in Villavicencio, Colombia in the region of Meta. According to Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz, a Colombian...
- New Lacey Case Protects U.S. Forests From Illegal Logging
New Lacey Case Protects U.S. Forests From Illegal Logging
Today the Department of Justice announced the first Lacey Act prosecution involving illegal logging in the United States. The news broke earlier today that the company J&L Tonewoods has been indicted over allegations of repeated...
- Oil Palm Plantations in Colombia Expand into Indigenous Territory
Oil Palm Plantations in Colombia Expand into Indigenous Territory
A new video released this weekend from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) to commemorate the UN’s Day of the World’s Indigenous People, shows the devastating effects of the growing palm oil
- Austrian Wood Trader Loses Last Alibi
Austrian Wood Trader Loses Last Alibi
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...
- Montreal Protocol Advances HFC Phase Down Discussions
Montreal Protocol Advances HFC Phase Down Discussions
After a five day preparatory meeting in Paris, Parties to the Montreal Protocol failed to finalize a formal negotiation process for discussions on hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) but agreed to hold an additional meeting prior to the Dubai Meeting...
- NGOs Denounce Illegal Rosewood Traffic in Madagascar’s Protected Areas
NGOs Denounce Illegal Rosewood Traffic in Madagascar’s Protected Areas
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...
- EIA Issues Response to EPA Action on High-GWP HFCs in New Delisting Rulemaking
EIA Issues Response to EPA Action on High-GWP HFCs in New Delisting Rulemaking
Today the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized a momentous rulemaking that will prohibit high-global warming potential (GWP) hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) from being used as alternatives under the Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program...
- U.S. Supermarkets Fail to Fulfill Commitments to Phase Out HFCs
U.S. Supermarkets Fail to Fulfill Commitments to Phase Out HFCs
Today the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released a new report exposing leading U.S. retailers such as Walmart, Publix, and Safeway as doing little to meet public commitments to phase out hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)...
- Conservation, Animal Protection Groups Call for Trade Sanctions
Conservation, Animal Protection Groups Call for Trade Sanctions
A coalition of international animal protection and conservation organizations has urgently asked the Obama administration to impose economic sanctions against Icelandic...
- New Report Supports HFC-free Procurement Policy Under Obama’s Climate Action Plan
New Report Supports HFC-free Procurement Policy Under Obama’s Climate Action Plan
Today the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released a new report that aims to serve as a resource for U.S. officials and procurement officers to incorporate HFC-free procurement into existing policies and programs to mitigate federal emissions of HFCs, a potent...
- USTR Fails to Implement and Enforce Key U.S.-Peru FTA Provisions
USTR Fails to Implement and Enforce Key U.S.-Peru FTA Provisions
Today the Environmental Investigation Agency released a briefing that highlights a significant deficit in implementation and enforcement within the U.S.-Peru Free Trade Agreement (FTA)...
- Global Conservation Coalition Appeals to Japanese Prime Minister to Ban Domestic Ivory Trade
Global Conservation Coalition Appeals to Japanese Prime Minister to Ban Domestic Ivory Trade
On the eve of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s historic address to the U.S. Congress, conservationists urged him to join the global fight to save Africa’s elephants. Twenty-four groups from Africa, Japan, the United States, and Europe...
- Austrian Company Exposed Offering Bonuses for Illegal Romanian Timber
Austrian Company Exposed Offering Bonuses for Illegal Romanian Timber
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), an environmental organization with offices in Washington, D.C. and London, has released a new video exposing the leadership of the largest forest products company in Romania...
- OEWG Concludes in Bangkok, African Group Spurs Progress
OEWG Concludes in Bangkok, African Group Spurs Progress
Unprecedented global attention on super greenhouse gases, HFCs, resulted in agreement on a way forward under the Montreal Protocol this week. At the five day meeting in Bangkok , the African group emerged...
- India Willing to Negotiate HFCs Under Montreal Protocol
India Willing to Negotiate HFCs Under Montreal Protocol
India has submitted an advance copy of an amendment proposal to the Montreal Protocol proposing a phase down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) ahead of next week's Open Ended Working Group (OEWG)...
- EIA Report Exposes Illegal Deforestation of Peruvian Amazon for Palm Oil Cultivation
EIA Report Exposes Illegal Deforestation of Peruvian Amazon for Palm Oil Cultivation
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...
- On Eve of Tokyo Wildlife Symposium, Environmentalists Call on Japan to Ban Domestic Ivory Trade
On Eve of Tokyo Wildlife Symposium, Environmentalists Call on Japan to Ban Domestic Ivory Trade
Environmentalists today called on the Government of Japan to ban domestic ivory trade to prevent the extinction of Africa’s highly endangered and rapidly disappearing forest elephants...
- Peruvian Environment Under Attack from Government, EIA Comments
Peruvian Environment Under Attack from Government, EIA Comments
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...
- Whale Advocates Take to Boston Streets with Mobile Billboard
Whale Advocates Take to Boston Streets with Mobile Billboard
A mobile billboard – funded by a coalition of U.S. animal protection and conservation organizations – will take the message “Don’t Buy From Icelandic Whalers” to the streets of Boston this week...
- Lumber Liquidators Faces Possible Criminal Charges for Illegal Timber Imports
Lumber Liquidators Faces Possible Criminal Charges for Illegal Timber Imports
In SEC filings released this morning, Lumber Liquidators revealed that the Department of Justice is contemplating criminal charges under the Lacey Act for importing illegally harvested wood...
- EIA Welcomes Administration’s Implementation Plan to Combat Wildlife Trafficking
EIA Welcomes Administration’s Implementation Plan to Combat Wildlife Trafficking
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) applauds yesterday’s release of the Implementation Plan for the U.S. National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking...
- Musicians Lead Industry Shift, Call for Legal Sourcing of Wood Products
Musicians Lead Industry Shift, Call for Legal Sourcing of Wood Products
Citing environmental and human rights concerns, musicians have joined the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and environmental non-profit REVERB to call for legal and sustainable sourcing of wood...
- New Partnership Strengthens Forest Governance with Technology
New Partnership Strengthens Forest Governance with Technology
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is partnering with the San Francisco-based nonprofit organization Digital Democracy to support Indigenous peoples’ organizations to monitor...