Protecting the environment with intelligence
Elissa Sursara is an Australia-based conservationist and correspondent using environmental biology to connect humans and the environment. Working with some of the world’s top environmental advocacy organisations, she builds political, scientific and social support for threatened species and habitats. Elissa is also a major champion of EIA’s work, helping us to spread word of our [...]
Steve O. Taylor is an independent filmmaker and the writer/director of the Green Heart trilogy of documentaries about the world’s big tropical forests and the people and species who rely on them. He is currently preparing a new film project on elephant poaching and the ivory trade. In today’s guest blog for EIA, Steve discusses [...]
Welcome to the first of an occasional series uncovering the current activities of environmental criminals previously exposed by EIA. Campaigns Director Julian Newman catches up with Ali Jambi – aka Tham Hai Lee, Jambi Lee, Jenggo, Hap Ali – who went from Indonesian timber smuggler to wealthy Singaporean businessman. Let’s call him Ali Jambi, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]