Logs, West Papua, Indonesia, 2003 Log raft, Seruyan, Indonesia, 2001

EIA has been working to protect the world’s forests, and the wildlife and people dependent on their resources, since the early 1990’s

International negotiations to bring the largely uncontrolled timber trade under regulation have been thwarted by the powerful logging companies and countries that support them. But EIA has spearheaded new strategies and at last timber consuming and producing countries are starting to come together to tackle forest crime.

Since 1997 EIA has worked in partnership with an Indonesian organisation called Telapak. Together, we have exposed rampant illegal logging in National Parks, worked with other organisations and communities throughout Indonesia and promoted ideas and information to improve forest policy in Indonesia and throughout the world.

This is a problem with hundreds of different elements. With Telapak EIA have chosen to concentrate on forest crimes such as illegal logging, which are devastating the forests, people and wildlife of Indonesia as well as many other parts of the world. We’re looking at the whole problem from producer to consumer, combining hard-hitting investigations in Indonesia and in other countries which launder illegal timber, principally Malaysia and Singapore, with pressure on consumer markets in Europe, the US and Japan.

Together we are: