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Press Release: 26 Jan 09
PROVIDE more resources to fight global environmental crime, EIA tells governments.
TO MARK International Customs Day, the Environmental Investigation Agency today challenges governments to provide adequate resources to police, customs and enforcement agencies throughout the world to follow up ‘green’ rhetoric with real commitment and to tackle the growing threat of organised crime against the environment.



12 Jan 09
FOREST communities use latest technology to fight to preserve their way of life. (read article)
Aggressive logging companies are threatening the future of people living in forest areas they are targeting.


Press Release: 15 May 08
LANDMARK law to combat illegal logging passes first stage in U.S
– LANDMARK legislation to address the global illegal logging crisis has been passed in the United States, which would make it the first country in the world to prohibit the import, sale or trade in illegally-harvested wood and wood products.


6 May 08
ILLEGAL logging baron's move to palm oil receives top brass backing
EIA is calling for an urgent inquiry into how a notorious illegal logging baron’s move into the booming palm oil plantations business has been backed by the highest levels of Indonesian government.


Press Release: 17 Apr 08
EIA: Call for tougher action on global eco crime at UN
EIA has been urging the international law enforcement community to make environmental crime a higher priority on the agenda and to learn lessons from drugs and arms trafficking.


12 Jun 07
'Orang-utans' homes will be gone by 2022'
Orang-tans could have nowhere left to live within a decade, a report has revealed.


Press Release: 7 Jun 07
Upholding The Law - Call for Crackdown on Eco Crime Gangs
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.


Urgent: 19 Mar 07
EIA needs help to protect newly discovered species


Announcement: 25 Apr 05
EIA launches a new range of training materials for the enforcement community to combat the illegal trade in ODS
A new training video, accompanying briefing sheets and enforcement assistance section of EIA’s website was produced by EIA in cooperation with UNEP to assist in combating the illegal trade in ozone depleting substances.


Campaign Update: 29 Sep 04
NGOs Set Agenda to Fight Illegal Logging for President's First 100 Days
Jakarta: Civil society representatives at the sharp end of fighting the timber mafia today issued an agenda for the new President’s first 100 days to combat illegal logging. Meeting at the News Café in Jakarta with media, politicians and international donors, the NGOs presented videos and photographs of many of the injustices taking place across Indonesia’s forests today.


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