November 07, 2023
Equatorial Guinea: New Report Exposes Home Depot's Alleged Connection To Grand Corruption and Forest Crimes in the Congo Basin
A new report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) exposes the largest United States (U.S.) home improvement retailer, Home Depot, and its supply chain’s nexus to… Read more »
May 27, 2021
Mozambique: Shipping Industry: Where There is a Will There is a Way - 66 Containers of Stolen Illegal Timber Return to Mozambique
On May 16th, 66 containers of logs that had been illegally harvested and shipped out of Mozambique returned to Pemba, some of them having sailed home on a journey of 20,000… Read more »
November 10, 2020
Cameroon: Damaging the Forest, Harming People - Negative Impacts of the Illegal Timber Trade between Cameroon and Vietnam
Following a three year investigation in Cameroon and Vietnam, the Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement (CED) and the Environmental Investigation Agency… Read more »
July 08, 2020
Africa: Sea Change in Sight in the Fight Against Global Forest Crimes
Major Shipping Company Announces Moratorium on Transporting African Timber Read more »
December 16, 2019
Zambia: Announce a Zero Export Quota Now
Zambia has at is fingertips an unprecedented opportunity to solve the mukula crisis and stop further forest plunder; will they seize the moment? Read more »
December 05, 2019
Zambia: Mukula Cartel - How Timber Trafficking Networks Plunder Zambian Forests
A new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Mukula Cartel, exposes how associates connected to Zambian President Edgar Lungu, including his daughter Tasila… Read more »
November 05, 2019
Ghana: "ROSEWOOD REVEALED" - EIA Offers Transparency to Ghanaian Rosewood Trade
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is releasing a new web-based tool that allows Ghanaian citizens to know the quantity and value of illegal rosewood imported into China… Read more »
July 30, 2019
Ghana: BAN-BOOZLED - New Report Exposes Institutionalized Timber Trafficking in Ghana
With all eyes on Ghana this week as the country hosts delegates from throughout West Africa for a meeting organized by the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West… Read more »
June 13, 2019
Gabon: Big Money, Big Cheating: Keeping Profits High and Hidden in the Gabonese Logging Industry
Raw Intelligence Series - #3 TBNI Read more »
May 24, 2019
Gabon: "One Cannot Survive Going By the Rules": How Colossal Overharvesting and Money Laundering Became the Standard in the Forests of Gabon
EIA Raw Intelligence Series - #2 WCTS Read more »
March 25, 2019
Africa: TOXIC TRADE: Illicit Destruction of Africa's Forests and Contamination of the US Market
Washington, DC – A new report from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) – Toxic Trade: Forest Crime in Gabon and the Republic of Congo and the Contamination of… Read more »
December 12, 2018
Africa: AUTHORIZED PLUNDER: Massive Rosewood Sale Backed by Global Wildlife Convention Fuels Forest Crimes in Guinea-Bissau
A new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Authorized Plunder, documents how the sale of 180,000 rosewood logs in Guinea-Bissau, enabled by the Secretariat… Read more »