Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Washington, DC

EIA’s work on illegal logging featured in The New Yorker magazine.
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Best-of-the-Best Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award, 2007
Awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Montreal Protocol Partners Award, 2007
Awarded by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in recognition of ten years undercover work on illicit trade in chemicals that damage the ozone layer.

BBC TV Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003
Awarded to EIA’s president for his work to protect whales.

Global 500 Roll of Honor, 2001
Awarded by the United Nations Environment Program for “outstanding contributions to the protection of the environment.”

Albert Schweitzer Award, 1991
Awarded by the late U.S. Senator John Heinz to EIA’s co-founders for exposing the trade in poached elephant ivory.

A changing climate is threatening our future. From Siberia to Indonesia to Honduras, the Earth's remaining forests are being plundered to fuel the global illegal timber trade. Poaching and commercial trafficking of wildlife are decimating biodiversity, and endangering some of the world's most-loved species, including tigers and orangutans, whales and elephants. Our organization is fighting back - with intelligence.

EIA works at the leading edge of some of the world's most pressing environmental problems. Our campaign program takes a “cradle to grave” approach to preventing the black market trade in environmental products which is at the root of these pressing ecological problems. Our undercover investigations shape our strategies and provide visual and factual ammunition for policymakers and enforcement agencies. Our campaign teams leverage the information we gather on eco-criminals with policymakers, the media and the public to bring about solutions.

Our interlocking campaign program is divided between three core areas. We work to protect endangered species, many of which require forest habitat which is being decimated by illegal logging and associated global timber trade. Deforestation is also exacerbating climate change by releasing the carbon stored by forests into the atmosphere. Climate change, in turn, threatens the habitats upon which both marine and terrestrial species depend. To learn more, please click on the links below.

focuses on the illegal and unsustainable killing of, and trade in, threatened wildlife including whales, dolphins, porpoises, and elephants. [ read more ] focuses on exposing illegal logging and deforestation, amplifying local peoples’ voices, and shifting demand towards sustainable timber and wood products. [ read more ] focuses on phasing out, and ending illegal trade in, industrial gases that act as global warmers and deplete the Earth’s protective ozone layer. [ read more ]
		World’s first ban on the import of illegally logged timber and wood products passed by the United States Congress [ read more ]
		Historic international agreement signed in Montreal, Canada to phase out 22 billion carbon dioxide equivalent tons of greenhouse gases in the next 20 years
		U.S.-Peru trade agreement renegotiated with groundbreaking Annex to fight illegal logging and reform forest governance
		Permanent cessation of whale meat trade by Japan’s three largest commercial manufacturers (at least 30 million cans annually)
		European Union ban on the import of grizzly bear hunting trophies from British Columbia, Canada
		Closure of 53 illegal mines that were destroying prime tiger habitat in India
		Groundbreaking regional agreement in Southeast Asia to improve forest law enforcement
		Global licensing system to control ozone depleting chemicals
		China domestic ban on rhino horn trade
		U.S. Wild Bird Conservation Act, limiting imports of exotic birds into the U.S.
		International ban on elephant ivory trade

You are on the EIA–Washington site. Please visit the EIA–London site for additional information on EIA's global work.

EIA – Washington, DC
PO Box 53343, Washington, DC 20009 USA
Tel: +1 202 483-6621
Fax: +1 202 986-8626
Email: info@eia-global.org

www.eia-global.org

EIA – London
62/63 Upper Street, London N1 0NY, UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 7354 7960
Fax: +44 (0)20 7354 7961
Email: ukinfo@eia-international.org

www.eia-international.org

The Environmental Investigation Agency's Washington, DC office is a registered non-profit, tax-exempt charity under section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code. Donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by U.S. law.

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