EIA Issues Report on Peru logging

May 17, 2010  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in on May 18, 2010

The Environmental Investigations Agency has issued a report on logging in Peru.

The document resulted from a series of workshops in Lima, and the capital cities of Peru's three principal Amazonian regions, Ucayali, Loreto, and Madre de Dios. It brings together the perceptions and recommendations of Peruvian civil society regarding the advances made by the Peruvian government in strengthening the governance of the forest sector.

The report also exmanines Peruvian logging in the context of several significant policy developments at the international level: the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement; laws prohibiting trade in illegal forest products such as the U.S. Lacey Act); and new international tools for forest conservation, such as the rapidly evolving mechanism for Reduction of Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation.

Environmental Investigation Agency is an international campaigning organization committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime and campaigning to protect endangered species and the natural world.