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 »

Africa: New EIA Report Exposes a Global Failure to Prevent the Deliberate Addition of Toxic Mercury to Skin Lightening Products

Washington, DC: For the first time ever, an undercover investigation by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has exposed key companies deliberately adding toxic… Read more »

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 »

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 »

Africa: Sea Change in Sight in the Fight Against Global Forest Crimes

Major Shipping Company Announces Moratorium on Transporting African Timber Read more »

Gambia: Exposed: The Gambia's Blood Wood Trafficking

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA)'s new report, Cashing-In On Chaos , conclusively establishes links between timber trafficking controlled by Senegalese armed rebels;… Read more »

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 »

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 »

Africa: New Global Protection Measures for Threatened Rosewood Trees Start this Week

CITES decisions need to translate into action on the ground Read more »

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 »

Southern Africa: High Hopes for Global Wildlife Treaty to Defeat African Tree Poaching

New EIA report warns about "Scheduled Extinction" of rare mukula rosewood   Read more »

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 »

Gabon: Big Money, Big Cheating: Keeping Profits High and Hidden in the Gabonese Logging Industry

Raw Intelligence Series - #3 TBNI Read more »

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 »

Congo-Brazzaville: Inside One of the Congo Basin's Worst Forest Offenders

EIA Raw Intelligence Series - #1 Dejia Group Read more »

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 »

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 »