Protecting the environment with intelligence
EIA and Telapak campaigners have held a series of successful training workshops to help a remote forest community in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province take an effective stand against the aggressive spread of palm oil plantations. Since last year, we have been working to raise awareness of, and support for, the indigenous Dayak Benuaq community of [...]
Only two days into my new job as Visual Communications Officer for EIA, I found myself on a plane to Jakarta, Indonesia. EIA Visuals Specialist Paul Redman, Nanang Sujana, two campaign staff and I travelled to the forest community of Muara Tae, in East Kalimantan, East Borneo, to run workshops in research techniques, photography, film, [...]
EIA’s first batch of customised banners for Facebook‘s new Timeline profile proved to be so popular that we thought we’d select a few more images from our extensive archive and convert them as a modest thank-you to our members, followers and supporters. Now you don’t need to search for images that are both striking and [...]
Welcome to the Spring 2012 issue of EIA’s bi-annual newsletter Investigator, giving you an overview of our key campaign activities during the past six months. This issue features an update on our work to help the people of Muara Tae fight off encroaching Big Palm Oil, our successful cetaceans campaign initiative to compel Amazon to [...]
Few things can capture the mood of a moment (or movement) quite as well as a song – think of New Labour’s 1997 victory and it’s all but impossible to divorce it from D:Ream’s now horribly ironic Things Can Only Get Better. True, most music has other interests in mind than championing causes, but in [...]
Campaigners from EIA are this week returning to the beleaguered forest community of Muara Tae in Indonesia’s East Kalimantan province, where villagers are attempting to take a stand against devastating encroachment by palm oil plantations. EIA has been working to raise awareness of, and support for, the indigenous Dayak Benuaq community’s confrontation since November last [...]