SUSPENSION OF BURMA SANCTIONS MUST BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REFORM

LONDON: The European Union’s suspension of sanctions against Burma, which will include lifting the prohibition on direct trade of timber and wood products to EU markets, should be an opportunity to introduce meaningful reform directly benefiting the country’s people. EU Continue Reading

STRIP CHINA OF IVORY ‘APPROVED BUYER’ STATUS TO COMBAT ELEPHANT SLAUGHTER

Legal ivory auctions must be stopped and China stripped of its Approved Buyer status if the rising tide of elephant poaching is to be curbed. In a new briefing, Blood Ivory: Exposing the myth of a regulated market, released on Continue Reading

FROM TIMBER BARON TO ‘LEGIT’ BUSINESSMAN – ON THE TRAIL OF ALI JAMBI

Julian Newman, Campaigns Director and a veteran undercover agent with the Environmental Investigation Agency,  catches up with Ali Jambi – aka Tham Hai Lee, aka Jambi Lee, aka Jenggo, aka Hap Ali – who went from notorious Indonesian timber smuggler Continue Reading

‘NONE OF US CAN TAKE OUR FOOT OFF THE GAS WHEN IT COMES TO SAVING TIGERS’

It can be emotionally exhausting when you’re constantly confronted with bad news and the terrible reality of what Mankind is doing to life on this planet, but the outlook’s not always as bleak as it may appear. Environmental Investigation Agency Continue Reading