Tag: Environment

An environmental crime of almost unimaginable scale continues to unfold across Indonesia.

Since the late 1990s, the country’s forests have been ransacked, with the Government acting as little more than a bystander.

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......

A report on how hundreds of millions of dollars worth of illegal Indonesian timber, including the particularly vulnerable species ramin, are estimated to be entering neighbouring Malaysia each year, providing cheap raw materials to a voracious wood industry.

Since 2001, Telapak and its partner have repeatedly exposed how, despite being a signatory to CITES, Malaysia is wilfully failing to uphold its international commitments, allowing stolen illegal Indonesian ramin to be traded through the country with impunity.

As a result, products including baby furniture and pool cues made from illegal wood are reaching the homes of unsuspecting consumers in the EU, USA and.....