Protecting the environment with intelligence
An investigation into merbau wood flooring sales in the UK. This briefing is the findings of detailed research carried out in August & September 2008 to uncover whether merbau flooring on sale in the UK could be proven to have come from legal sources. It also looks at whether adequate information was available to consumers. [...]
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.
A briefing outlining why the UK should urgently introduce new domestic legislation to make it an offence to trade in stolen timber within the UK market
A briefing calling upon Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to acknowledge that environmental crime, including wildlife crime, is a form of serious transnational organised crime and to adopt appropriately stringent measures to tackle it effectively.
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.
A briefing on serious loopholes in FLEGT VPAs and what needs to be done to close them and prohibit significant volumes of illegal timber from the EU market