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Environmental Crime – Our Planet, Our Problem
Briefing to the 17th meeting of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Last Updated: 24 Apr 08

Borderlines
Report revealing how Vietnam has become a hub for processing huge quantities of unlawfully-logged timber from across Indochina, threatening some of the last intact forests in the region.
Last Updated: 19 Mar 08

How Wal-Mart's Sourcing Practices Encourage Illegal Logging and Threaten Endangered Species
This report exposes how global retail giant Wal-Mart's “no questions asked” sourcing policy is leaving them vulnerable to selling high-risk wood products.
Last Updated: 8 Jan 08

No Questions Asked
The Impacts of U.S. Market Demand for Illegal Timber - and the Potential for Change
Last Updated: 7 Nov 07

Receiving Stolen Goods: Why the UK Must Legislate Against Trade in Illegal Timber
This briefing outlines Britain's role in the illegal timber trade, and why MPs must help the government maintain its leadership in addressing illegal logging by unilaterally legislating against the trade in illegal timber in the UK market.
Last Updated: 20 Jul 07

Upholding The Law - the Challenge of Effective Enforcement
ENVIRONMENT and wildlife crimes - such as illegal logging, ivory poaching and trading in tiger parts and rare animals - are now so rife they should be treated as serious transnational organised crime, says EIA.
Last Updated: 7 Jun 07

The Thousand-Headed Snake: Forest crimes, corruption and injustice in Indonesia.
This report exposes how corruption and collusion at all stages of the justice system, from the police and prosecutors to judges, conspires to ensure that the main culprits behind illegal logging in Indonesia remain at liberty.
Last Updated: 28 Mar 07

Illegal and Unsustainable Trade in Ramin: A Briefing Document for the 54th Meeting of the CITES Standing Committee
This briefing document shows how illegal and unsustainable trade of ramin have continued since the Appendix II listing took effect. It outlines how one of the main range states - Malaysia - has failed to carry out proper nondetriment findings for its ramin exports.
Last Updated: 2 Oct 06

Giant European and North American Manufacturers and Retailers Still Trading Merbau Wood Flooring of Dubious Origin
An Update to the ‘Behind The Veneer’ Report
Last Updated: 31 Jul 06

America's Free Trade for Illegal Timber - How US Trade Pacts Speed the Destruction of the World's Forests
This report documents the alarming increase in US imports of illegal timber via Singapore since the US signed a free trade agreement with that country in May 2003. It also describes how US demand is fuelling an illegal logging crisis in Honduras, with which the US signed a free trade pact last year.
Last Updated: 15 Jun 06

Behind the Veneer: How Indonesia's Last Rainforests are being Felled for Flooring
Outlining the results of recent EIA/Telapak investigations, this report tracks the trade in merbau wood from Papua, via the factories processing merbau for the world's biggest flooring brands, to the shelves of the leading DIY and home improvement retailers of Europe and North America.
Last Updated: 22 Mar 06

Stemming the Tide: Halting The Regional Trade in Stolen Timber in Asia
EIA and Telapak’s investigations over the past five years have spanned the countries of East and South-East Asia region and provide a unique knowledge of the illegal logging trade and the attempts to tackle it. Drawing on this experience, this briefing provides options for action by using specific case studies. Though solutions must necessarily begin with improved enforcement in producer countries against illegal cutting and export of timber, this document focuses on how regional consumer and processing states can work with producer countries to help stem the tide.
Last Updated: 28 Nov 05

The Illegal Logging Crisis in Honduras
EIA’s latest report—“The Illegal Logging Crisis in Honduras”—details how U.S. and E.U. imports of illegal Honduran wood increase poverty, fuel corruption and devastate forests and communities. Based on a series of undercover investigations in Honduras, it tracks the illegal supply chain from the forests of Honduras to retail outlets in the U.S. The report calls on the U.S. and E.U. governments to take immediate action to halt the international trade in illegal timber.
Last Updated: 7 Nov 05

The Last Frontier - Illegal Logging in Papua and China's Massive Timber Theft
EIA/Telapak’s new report - "The Last Frontier" - is based on a series of undercover investigations in Papua, Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong and Mainland China. It details the illegal trade in valuable merbau logs, following the trail from the forests of Papua to the booming Yangtze Delta region of eastern China. Papua is now the main illegal logging hotspot in Indonesia, while China has become the world’s largest buyer of stolen logs.
Last Updated: 16 Feb 05

The Ramin Racket: The Role of CITES in Curbing Illegal Timber Trade
Released to coincide with the 13th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, this report describes how effective the Appendix III listing of ramin wood has been, and why CITES should uplist ramin to Appendix II to provide even greater protection.
Last Updated: 4 Oct 04

Profiting from Plunder: How Malaysia Smuggles Endangered Wood
EIA/Telapak's new report exposes shocking evidence of how Malaysia is laundering endangered Indonesian ramin wood on an unprecedented scale. We reveal how thousands of tonnes of endangered wood is being smuggled across the border every month by organised criminals and provided with documents including CITES permits certifying it as 'Origin Malaysia', with the complicity of local officials.
Last Updated: 4 Feb 04

Update on Tanjung Puting National Park: A report to the CGI meeting, Jakarta, December 2003
Last Updated: 4 Dec 03

Singapore's Illegal Timber Trade & The U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
The report, released to coincide with consideration of the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement by the US Congress, details how Singapore launders illegal timber onto the world market and presents evidence of illegal shipments entering the United States. The report calls on the US and Singapore to take immediate concrete steps to halt the trade in illegal timber.
Last Updated: 29 May 03

Timber Traffickers: How Malaysia and Singapore are reaping a profit from the illegal destruction of Indonesia’s tropical forests.
New evidence obtained by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak exposes how Malaysia and Singapore continue to launder illegally logged Indonesian wood, including endangered species, on to world markets.
Last Updated: 13 May 03

Framed: Italy's Dirty Trade in Stolen Timber
Based on undercover investigations, this shocking briefing exposes the role of Italian picture frame companies in dealing in illegally logged Indonesian ramin wood
Last Updated: 13 Apr 03

Above the Law
Corruption, Collution, Nepotism and Fate of Indonesia's Forests
Last Updated: 13 Jan 03

Timber Briefing for the 12CoP to CITES
Illegal Logging and The International Trade in Illegally Sourced Timber: How CITES can help and why it should
Last Updated: 29 Oct 02

Illegal Timber Trade in the ASEAN Region
A Briefing Document for the Forestry Law Enforcement Conference Preparatory Meeting, Jakarta 2nd-3rd April 2001.
Last Updated: 1 Sep 01

Timber Trafficking
Illegal Logging in Indonesia, South East Asia and International Consumption of Illegally Sourced Timber
Last Updated: 1 Sep 01

Illegal Logging in Tanjung Puting National Park
An Update on The Final Cut Report
Last Updated: 1 Jul 00

The Final Cut
Illegal Logging in Indonesia's Orangutan Parks
Last Updated: 30 Aug 99

The Politics of Extinction
Last Updated: 30 Jul 98