Killing for Commerce….YAHOO JAPAN PROFITS FROM KILLING OF ENDANGERED WHALES & DOLPHINS

Internet giant urged to ban all sales of whale and dolphin products   LONDON, UK: Hundreds of whale products are being offered for sale on the Japanese website of internet search engine company Yahoo!, according to a new report. Killing Continue Reading

WEST PAPUA’S BIG PALM OIL PLANTATIONS RIP-OFF

Just 65c a hectare for landowners while major investors cash in   LONDON: An Indonesian oil palm plantation in which Norway has a financial stake paid Papuan tribal landowners as little as US$0.65 per hectare for their forestland, the Environmental Continue Reading

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