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- Une convention internationale s'attaque au plus grand commerce illicite de bois de rose
Une convention internationale s'attaque au plus grand commerce illicite de bois de rose
Washington, D.C. - L'Agence D'investigation Environnementale (EIA) salue la décision sans précédent prise par le Comité Permanent De La Convention Sur Le Commerce International Des Espèces De Faune Et De Flore Sauvages Menacées D'extinction (CITES) de mettre fin au commerce illégal et non durable de plusieurs milliards de dollars de bois de rose (Pterocarpus erinaceus) qui persiste en violation de la Convention depuis 2017.
- International Convention Cracks Down on World’s Largest Illicit Rosewood Trade
International Convention Cracks Down on World’s Largest Illicit Rosewood Trade
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) commends the unprecedented decision taken by the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to stop the illegal and unsustainable multi billion dollar illegal trade in rosewood (Pterocarpus erinaceus) that has persisted in violation of the Convention since 2017.
- Convention Evasion: Madagascar's Plan to Pull Rosewood Stockpiles Out of CITES
Convention Evasion: Madagascar's Plan to Pull Rosewood Stockpiles Out of CITES
The fate of what are arguably the world’s most valuable and coveted timber stockpiles will be discussed at the 74th meeting of the Standing Committee (SC74) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
- Defending Forests and People in Court: The Zambia Case
Defending Forests and People in Court: The Zambia Case
In December 2019, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released a groundbreaking report about one of the most egregious timber trafficking systems exposed on the African continent.
- Mukulagate
Mukulagate
While the coronavirus pandemic rages on, ravaging Zambia’s economy and crippling its citizens' lives, new findings by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) show that illegal exploitation and trade in mukula (Pterocarpus tinctorius) persists unabated, benefitting a small number of well-connected and wealthy individuals. A probing undercover investigation into illegal mukula logging and trade sheds light on the apparent theft of more than 10,000 trees and unveils information connecting the Zambia Agency For Persons With Disabilities (ZAPD), the Ministry of Community and Social Services, the Ministry of Tourism and Arts, and the office of the vice president. Nearly two years after EIA’s exposé on the institutional looting of Zambian forests, it appears that the more things have changed with the pandemic, when it comes to mukula, the more they’ve stayed the same.
- Seizing the Moment: How Ghana Can End the Destruction of the Illegal Rosewood Trade Now
Seizing the Moment: How Ghana Can End the Destruction of the Illegal Rosewood Trade Now
As exports and imports worldwide are estimated to be at their lowest levels in four years due to the impact of COVID-19, Ghana, a key epicenter of the rosewood trade in West Africa, is no exception to this trend.
- Exposed: The Gambia’s Blood Wood Trafficking
Exposed: The Gambia’s Blood Wood Trafficking
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)’s new report, Cashing-In On Chaos, conclusively establishes links between timber trafficking controlled by Senegalese armed rebels; the decade-long smuggling of an estimated 1.6 million trees from Senegal to The Gambia; and the illegal re-export of the disappearing rosewood trees to China, in violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES). Some of EIA’s findings are featured in the BBC’s documentary The Trees That Bleed: How rosewood is smuggled from Senegal into Gambia, released in March 2020.
- Cashing-In On Chaos
Cashing-In On Chaos
Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)’s three-year investigation into the Senegal-Gambia-China rosewood traffic uncovered unprecedented evidence on a series of major forest crimes.
- Civil Society Statement on the Weakening of Institutions and Governance in the Forest Sector
Civil Society Statement on the Weakening of Institutions and Governance in the Forest Sector
Civil Society Statement on the Weakening of Institutions and Governance in the Forest Sector
- EIA looks forward to the release of an uncensored rosewood investigative report by the Ghanaian government
EIA looks forward to the release of an uncensored rosewood investigative report by the Ghanaian government
EIA looks forward to the release of an uncensored rosewood investigative report by the Ghanaian government