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Best-of-the-Best Stratospheric Ozone
Protection Award, 2007
Awarded by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency. |
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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. |
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BBC TV Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003
Awarded to EIA’s president for his work to protect whales. |
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Global 500 Roll of Honor, 2001
Awarded by the United Nations Environment Program for “outstanding contributions to the protection of the environment.” |
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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. |
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This page features hard-hitting and influential campaign reports dating back to 2003.
Borderlines: Vietnam’s Booming Furniture Industry and Timber Smuggling in the Mekong Region…February 2008
[ read report ]
Undercover investigations by EIA and Indonesian NGO Telapak have revealed how Vietnam’s booming economy and demand for cheap furniture in European nations and the U.S. is driving rapid deforestation throughout the Mekong river region.
 Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers: How Wal-Mart’s Sourcing Practices Encourage Illegal Logging and Threaten Endangered Species…
December 2007
[ read report ]
Based on undercover investigations in China and the Russian Far East, this report describes how Wal-Mart is stocking a wide range of products, from baby cribs to toilet seats to craft sticks, made of wood sourced from forests which harbor the endangered Siberian tiger and where illegal logging and timber smuggling are rampant.
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No Questions Asked: The Impacts of U.S. Market Demand for Illegal Timber and the Potential for Change…
October 2007
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Highlighting the extent to which U.S. demand is fuelling illegal logging and timber trade, this report was presented to lawmakers at the October 16, 2007 Congressional hearing on the amendment to the Lacey Act. |
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Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Initiative: A Civil Society Critique…
September 2007
[ read report ]
EIA contributed a chapter on Wal-Mart’s sale of high-risk wood products to this Big Box Collaborative compilation, which pulls together 23 groups’ critiques of the Wal-Mart approach to sustainability. |
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The Thousand-Headed Snake: Forest crimes, corruption and injustice in Indonesia …
March 2007
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This report exposes how corruption and collusion at all stages of the justice system, from the police and prosecutors to judges, conspires to ensure that the main culprits behind illegal logging in Indonesia remain at liberty.
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Feeding Forest Crime: How U.S. imports support the timber barons of Southeast Asia; a supplement to The Thousand-Headed Snake...
March 2007
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America’s Free Trade for Illegal Timber: How U.S. Trade Pacts Speed the Destruction of the World’s Forests…
June 2006
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This report reveals how the existing U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement has exacerbated illegal logging and timber trade, including an increase in U.S. imports of wood of questionable origin. It presents specific recommendations to ensure that illegal timber trade is addressed in future U.S. trade agreements with forest-rich developing countries. |
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Behind the Veneer: How Indonesia’s Last Rainforests are Felled for Flooring…
March 2006
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Based on months of investigations across Asia, Europe and North America, this report reveals how the world’s largest flooring manufacturers and major retail chains in North America and Europe have stocked products made from merbau wood of dubious origin – likely sourced from threatened virgin tropical forest in Indonesia’s Papua province. |
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An Update to the ‘Behind The Veneer’ Report: Giant European and North American Manufacturers and Retailers Still Trading Merbau Wood Flooring of Dubious Origin …
July 2006
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This follow-up briefing describes how seven of the nine retail companies contacted by EIA stopped selling merbau after the release of Behind the Veneer, yet all five U.S. and European flooring manufacturers named in the report continue to sell merbau products, despite not having produced any credible evidence that their merbau is legally sourced. |
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The Illegal Logging Crisis in Honduras: How U.S. and E.U. Imports of Illegal Honduran Wood Increase Poverty, Fuel Corruption and Devastate Forests and Communities...
October 2005
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The result of a year-long undercover investigation, this report documents the extent and social impacts of illegal logging in Honduras and how demand from the U.S. market is the primary driver of this problem. It also names the U.S. firms, including The Home Depot, that profit from the trade, and offers recommendations to the Honduran and U.S. government on how to end this crisis. |
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The Last Frontier: Illegal Logging in Papua and China’s Massive Timber Theft…
February 2005
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Based on a series of undercover investigations in Papua, Jakarta, Singapore, Hong Kong and Mainland China, this report details the illegal trade in valuable merbau logs, following the trail from the forests of Papua, the largest remaining tract of virgin forest in Asia, to China, now the world’s largest buyer of stolen logs. |
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Singapore’s Illegal Timber Trade and the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement
May 2003
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This report describes Singapore’s role as a hub for illegal timber flowing from Southeast Asia to markets around the world and highlights the dangers for increasing this trade as a result of the Free Trade Agreement with the United States. |
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Above the Law: Corruption, Collusion, Nepotism and Fate of Indonesia's Forests…
May 2003 (both English and Bahasa Indonesia)
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This report laid out the damning evidence of systemic, high level political corruption destroying Indonesia’s forests and orangutan habitat, including world famous Tanjung Puting National Park. This expose resulted in a major crackdown at the Park. |
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