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

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

EIA Reports: THE DEATH OF A FOREST…..MUARA TAE: A Video you will never forget……

Since October 2011, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and its Indonesian partner NGO Telapak have been working to highlight the plight of villagers in the remote East Kalimantan forest community of Muara Tae as they face-off against the bulldozers of Continue Reading

CONSERVATION ON THE FRONT LINE – MUARA TAE’S LAST STAND AGAINST BIG PALM OIL

  MUARA TAE, EAST KALIMANTAN: The fate of a Dayak community deep in the interior of East Kalimantan demonstrates how Indonesia must safeguard the rights of indigenous people if it is to meet ambitious targets to reduce emissions from deforestation. Continue Reading