In September 2024, the 69th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC69) will be held in Lima, Peru. Decisions ...

An estimated 2.9 million whales were killed in commercial whaling operations during the 20th century, decimating global ...

Environmental Investigation Agency - Who are we? Making the law work. The EIA’s response to the UK Government’s legislation on forest risk commodities. In 2021, the UK Government passed the ...

EIA, one of the top 20 most effective environmental charities, campaigns to save whales, dolphins and porpoises, and their ...

That court found WOB Timber had evaded EU sanctions on 31 separate shipments of timber worth millions of euros from 2008-11, ...

For anyone interested in discovering detailed, credible and verified information about different types of international environmental crime, there is no central public database that provides analysis ...

Banks and governments must do much more to detect suspicious transactions linked to wildlife crime and use anti-money laundering laws to prosecute the culprits and seize the fruits of their crimes.

The Government of Namibia is proposing a mass cull of endangered species and protected wildlife – with most of the slaughter ...

A new ruling by the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) may partially undo earlier criminal convictions for importing teak from Myanmar in defiance of a previous EU sanctions regime. In April 2021, Hamburg ...

Pangolins are the world’s most trafficked mammal. Curling into a ball when threatened leaves these unique animals particularly vulnerable to poaching. Over time and through our Tiger and Elephant ...

Despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century, far beyond the universally recognised ...

EIA research reveals that at least 24 Chinese pharmaceutical companies have been listing leopard bones as an ingredient in their traditional medicines, although there are fewer than 450 wild leopards ...