Protecting the environment with intelligence
AFTER four years of negotiations, the EU and Indonesia have this week finalised an historic new timber trade agreement to stem the flow of illegal timber to European markets. The Voluntary Partnership Agreement (VPA) is the first ever in Asia and will govern a trade estimated to be worth about US$1 billion a year. Once [...]
Sitting on the Eurostar, once again on my way to Brussels and this time for what should be a defining moment for our campaign against illegal logging, I have been thinking about the amount of time I have spent in meetings and how much I have learned over the years about getting legislation through the [...]
Okay. I’m going to spare you all the ubiquitous yew-turn jokes and get right on with it. After a massive public campaign, the Government has wisely scrapped its plans to privatise and sell off England’s public forests. There were three strands to this and they have backed down on all of them. The consultation on selling [...]
‘So why should people in this country care?’ Spreading word of EIA’s activities and investigations via broadcast, print and electronic media can present all sorts of interesting challenges in the shifting landscape of how information is delivered and consumed in the early 21st Century. But with traditional forms such as newspapers under mounting pressure and [...]
EIA is going local this week. For over 25 years we have campaigned against environmental abuse around the world, from anti-whaling campaigns in the Faroe Islands, to tackling carbon trading in Europe and combating illegal logging and deforestation in South East Asia. Throughout all these campaigns the objectives have been the same – to [...]
EIA urges public retention and ‘green’ reform of forest management GOVERNMENT plans to sell off large tracts of England’s forests could spell disaster for the country’s ecological heritage, while throwing away the chance to steer current management practices in a more environmentally positive direction. For more than a decade, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) [...]