In February, for instance, a group called the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) alleged that $600m-worth of timber was being smuggled from Indonesia to China every month, with the active help of the army and police.
EIA investigators and a local group called Telepak, posing as timber buyers, have compiled and published information on Mr Rasyid's company, Tanjung Lingga.
In a report to the UN leaked by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), a campaigning group, this month, Chinese officials admitted that between 1991 and 2002 they had lost sight of 121 tonnes of ivory, the equivalent of the tusks from 11,000 elephants.Is China observing the CITES rules now?
This week America's Energy Information Administration (EIA) released new estimates of the amount of gas in the world's shale beds.
In a recent report on illegal logging in Indonesia, a pressure group called the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) estimated that 3.6m cubic metres of wood are smuggled from Papua province alone to China each year.
But despite arresting traffickers and seizing wildlife parts, law enforcers have failed to arrest or convict the criminal masterminds wreaking havoc across Africa, according to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which has been investigating the trade for more than three decades.
In a new report, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) warns that both the totoaba, which live for up to 25 years and can reach two metres in length, and the vaquita are being pushed to the brink of extinction and more must be done to crack down on the traffickers and retailers behind the trade.
With estimated proven reserves of 13bn barrels of oil, Kashagan is one of the largest oil fields in the world – originally anticipated to produce more oil than Libya and with reserves greater than Brazil, according to the EIA.
The EIA says the switch will speed up in 2012, with coal falling to just 36% of the total.Gas has wrought some remarkable changes.
Flores also says the law's requirement that exploration will be subject to "independent Environmental Impact Assessments EIAis) is misleading because the government has turned the EIAs into a "simple formality", and SERNAP, which must evaluate the EIAs, has "no independence and does what the government wants".
In Thailand, the domestic (legal) market in ivory also handles quite a lot of illegal merchandise, says Mary Rice of the Environmental Investigation Agency EIAa), a British-based campaigning group.
