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 Investigation Agency (EIA) can reveal. In the new briefing Clear-Cut Exploitation, EIA and its Indonesian [...]
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Asia: Wildlife, Europe, Latest News, Oceans, Whales
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 again, after being shut down last summer due to the impacts of the earthquake and [...]
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Asia: Wildlife, Dolphins, Oceans, Porpoises, Whales
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 to the bitterly cold fish markets of the north and south. Year after year, we [...]
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Asia: Wildlife, Biodiversity, Latest News
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 palm oil plantation companies. Here, EIA campaigner Tm Johnson gives a personal account of his [...]
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Introducing the Bush Warriors Rhino Sanctuary In South Africa
Over the last 4 year we have steadily seen the increase in rhino poaching in [...]
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