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

ICELAND TO RESUME HUNT OF ENDANGERED FIN WHALES

  London/Washington DC: Conservation and animal welfare groups have expressed concern over news that Iceland’s hunt of endangered fin whales will resume this summer. The Icelandic newspaper Skessuhorn reported on Thursday that it had “reliable evidence” fin whaling will begin Continue Reading

JAPANESE WHALING – A TOXIC TALE OF DEATH AND DEVASTATION

Environmental Investigation Agency visuals specialist Paul Redman reflects on almost a decade of campaigning and investigating the hunting and killing of whales, porpoises and dolphins in Japan.   Empathy. My view of Japan is born out of an annual visit 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

CAMPAIGN FORCES AMAZON TO REMOVE ALL WHALE MEAT PRODUCTS FROM JAPAN WEBSITE

A campaign calling on internet trading giant Amazon to stop selling whale meat products has scored a resounding victory, showing just what can be achieved by a small organization via strategic partnerships and the engagement of consumers through social media. Continue Reading