Protecting the environment with intelligence
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 [...]
THREE powerful new documentaries following the work of EIA’s undercover investigators will premiere across Asia from Thursday, November 17, 2011. Screened as the three-part mini-series Crimes Against Nature 2 on National Geographic Channel (Asia), the programmes were a year in the making and take viewers into the murky and high-stakes underbelly of global environmental crime, [...]
The Global Ocean Race teams are mid-Atlantic in their third week of racing. The two lead yachts are approaching the Equator and all are sweating it out in the notorious Doldrums. Was it just a cruel coincidence that one of the yachts passed a ship called Ice Transporter as the crew struggled to [...]
I have been in Jakarta this week, on invitation from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), to speak at the Forests Indonesia Conference it was hosting; not usually something to write home about, but something happened during the day that was quite extraordinary. The opening key speech was given by the President of Indonesia, [...]
LONDON: Supporters in the US have a second chance to see three striking new documentaries following the work of EIA undercover investigators on the frontlines of environmental crime. The Crimes Against Nature films premiered in the USA on September 6 and will be repeated there on Saturday, September 24, 2011. The programmes were a year [...]
LONDON: The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a London-based international NGO, strongly refutes allegations concerning its recent report into illicit trade in timber between Laos and Vietnam made by a Vietnamese wood industry association and covered in a range of media outlets. On 28 July 2011, EIA released its report entitled “Crossroads – the illicit timber [...]