Singapore, the world’s busiest port and the first Asian country to sign a free trade agreement with the US, has long been known to act as a major center of illegal trade in endangered wildlife and wildlife products. This document reveals evidence demonstrating how the city-state also plays a key role in smuggling illegally cut timber into other Asian countries and in some cases into the United States.

The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), which specializes in investigating environmental crime, fears the US-Singapore FTA, as it stands, will trigger a major increase in Singaporean controlled exports of illegally cut.....

The unique forests of Papua are under siege from the rampant spread of plantations.

Up to five million hectares of land have been targeted for conversion to grow crops such as oil palm, with the projected global demand for biofuels driving much of this conversion.

At stake is a major part of the last tropical forest wilderness in the entire Asia-Pacific region – Papua’s forests host an amazing array of biodiversity, provide livelihoods for indigenous communities and are a vital carbon store......