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

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

Tattoo of the Day

Tattoo by Boris.

Photo of the Day

  “The Ocean’s Ballet” Photo credit: Katrien Vandevelde

Video of the Day: Hundreds of Dead Sharks on Hong Kong Sidewalk!

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Lm89uuCs0] About this video, Alex Hofford says: “Hong Kong shark fin traders regularly block the city’s sidewalks with stinky shark fins, causing not only an obstruction to pedestrians, but also a deep inconvenience to our oceans.” Photo credit: Alex Hofford Continue Reading