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Hard Evidence of Continued Import of Illegal Timber from Malaysia to Japan

Briefing about how Japan is falling behind other major consuming markets in its efforts to halt trade in illegally sourced wood and how, of five consumer countries studied, it had the highest proportion of imports of probable illegal source and the highest per-capita consumption of illegal wood. Read the Japanese language version of the briefing [...]

New trailer for EIA film The Real Chainsaw Massacre

With its UK premiere this Thursday (December 22) on Nat Geo Wild at 8pm, we’re pleased to share this new trailer for The Real Chainsaw Massacre.   Made by London production company Red Earth Studio for National Geographic, the documentary follows EIA investigators as they go undercover, posing as timber traders and tourists to follow [...]

Timber smuggling from Laos to Vietnam, in a military style

The new documentary The Real Chainsaw Massacre, following EIA undercover investigators in Vietnam and Laos, makes its UK premiere on Nat Geo Wild this Thursday, December 22, at 8pm; our Campaigns Director Julian Newman was one of the team being filmed and here he gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse of an investigation in progress.   It [...]

Groups call on Japan to stop buying illegal timber

Open letter cites imports from illegally logged Malaysian forests, criticises government inaction   Washington DC:  A group of 16 environmental organisations are today calling on Japan to put in place stronger measures to stop the trade in illegal timber. In an open letter to two Japanese trade associations, the group cites evidence that Japanese companies [...]

Join EIA on the front lines of global eco crime

UK broadcasts of new films going undercover with campaign group   LONDON: The risky undercover work of the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is showcased in three new films to be broadcast in the UK on Nat Geo Wild from Thursday, December 15. A year in the making, the films follow EIA through countries as [...]

UK transmission dates for new films about EIA’s work

THREE new films taking viewers undercover with EIA’s intrepid investigators as they work at the sharp end of environmental crime will be screened in the UK on Nat Geo Wild from December 15. The documentaries were a year in the making and chronicle separate investigations into whaling, illegal logging and the ivory trade, following clues [...]

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