Illegal Logging in Latin America, Year 1

To move Andrea Johnson into the role of Latin America Forest Campaigner, taking the lead on building and strengthening the organization's ability to document and build awareness around the issue of illegal logging in Latin America.  The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an international campaigning organization committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime. EIA's Forests Campaign seeks to increase protection of the world's forests and the wildlife and people dependent on them by working to end illegal logging and the associated international trade in forest products. Andrea's primary responsibilities will be to advocate for improved forest governance in Peru through investigative research, campaign work and exploration of potential mechanisms within the pending U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement. Andrea will develop and begin to implement the campaign against illegal forestry and the effects of the new Inter-Oceanic Highway in Peru by establishing local networks of partner organizations and civic groups, performing investigations into the illegal logging activities and documenting her findings, publicizing the illegal timber trade producer-consumer chain. She will also consolidate and expand EIA's forest work with Central America (Honduras and Guatemala) using existing mechanisms within CAFTA and the potential for enactment of new U.S. legislation. Finally, she will work with partner organizations and U.S. agencies in Washington, D.C. to track demand-side laws, regulations and policies relevant to controlling illegal timber trade.