Protecting the environment with intelligence
I’ve been reading about a pangolin trafficking operation, described in a recent report by TRAFFIC Southeast Asia1. Sabah Wildlife Department’s raid on a warehouse used by a pangolin trafficking syndicate recovered several logbooks used by the dealers. These books revealed that the criminals meticulously recorded their trafficking activities – being the details of approximately 22,200 [...]
LONDON: The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) commends Norway’s divestment of its pension fund’s shares in Malaysian logger Samling Global this week, but calls for a more comprehensive review of the fund’s wider investments of over $400 million in other controversial forestry and plantation companies. On August 23, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance announced the sale [...]
Our tiger campaigner Alasdair comment’s on today’s latest news. On 20 July, a young Right to Information campaigner named Amit Jethwa was gunned down opposite the High Court in Gujarat, shortly after leaving his office. The killing appears to have been in retaliation for a public interest litigation he has launched, seeking to close down [...]
Campaign group ‘ecstatic’ at major victory against the timber barons.
A report on how US trade pacts speed the destruction of the world’s forests
A briefing providing options for action to combat the illegal logging trade in the East and South-East Asia region.