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Call to CITES: stop stimulating demand for endangered species
The campaigning Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling on international policy-makers to Stop Stimulating Demand for critically endangered species. The London-based NGO cautioned that...
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Protection will help to end rosewood wars
CITES lists endangered wood in bid to halt booming illegal trade Granting international protection to threatened Siam rosewood is a major step towards saving the species from extinction and curbing the...
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Conservationists urge RSPO member to cease rainforest destruction after...
WEST KALIMANTAN: Dramatic footage released today shows starving orangutans being rescued from an oil palm concession in Borneo after their forest homes were bulldozed by a member of the Roundtable on...
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Softbank refuses to stop selling elephant, dolphin and Whale products on...
Wildlife advocates expressed bitter disappointment today at the refusal of international conglomerate SoftBank Corp to ban advertisements for elephant ivory and whale & dolphin products on Yahoo!...
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Palm Oil Firm a Threat to Orangutan Habitat – and Investors
Potential investors should steer clear of a US$90 million initial public offering (IPO) in an Indonesian palm oil company due to the involvement of a former illegal logging kingpin and the potential...
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Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference Offers a Watershed Moment to Conserve...
Just days before UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s landmark Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has set out the key actions it believes are...
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London Conference Shows World Leaders Are Serious About Fighting Illegal...
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) broadly welcomes the outcomes of today’s landmark London Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade as a strong indication that world leaders are...
View ArticleFlawed court case highlights failings of legal timber system
The shockingly lenient verdict handed down by a West Papua court to a police officer charged with illegal logging, fuel smuggling and money laundering is an appalling indictment of Indonesia’s utter...
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Myanmar’s $6 Bn Timber Corruption Black Hole Revealed by Official Data
New analysis of the Myanmar Government’s forestry and trade data points to a multi-billion dollar illegal logging and exports black hole – indicating widespread criminality and official corruption. The...
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International Court of Justice Rules Japan’s Scientific Whaling Must End
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today welcomed the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling against Japan’s whaling in the Antarctic. Australia took Japan to the ICJ in 2010,...
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Europe – An Open Market for the Ivory Trade?
Conservationists urge the EU – the biggest exporter of so-called “old” ivory – to ban all ivory trade On the eve of inter-governmental meetings in Brussels and Geneva in June and July to debate the...
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United Nations Climate Summit 2014
As global leaders and industry heads gather in New York for the UN Secretary-General’s historic climate summit, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) calls on governments and the private sector...
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Illegal fish trade pushes critically endangered vaquita to extinction
A recent survey by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) of marine product sellers in southern China and Hong Kong revealed a continuing illegal trade in a banned fish species which, if left...
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Dodgy auditors undermine the credibility of palm oil group's 'sustainability'...
EIA reveals major flaws in the system of scrutiny which underpins the RSPO’s guarantee A new report today exposes critical failures in an international system seeking to assure consumers that the palm...
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EU Circular Economy 'Watered Down and Lacking Ambition' But Still a Place to...
EU Circular Economy package released The long awaited Circular Economy package was released today in Brussels, setting out a range of measures to increase the resource efficiency and sustainability of...
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Pioneering Environmental Activist Receives OBE in New Year Honours List
EIA co-founder is recognised in the New Year Honours List Activist Jennifer Lonsdale, a co-founder of the ground-breaking NGO the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), has had more than three...
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Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference Offers a Watershed Moment to Conserve...
Just days before UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s landmark Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has set out the key actions it believes are...
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London Conference Shows World Leaders Are Serious About Fighting Illegal...
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) broadly welcomes the outcomes of today’s landmark London Conference on Illegal Wildlife Trade as a strong indication that world leaders are...
View ArticleFlawed court case highlights failings of legal timber system
The shockingly lenient verdict handed down by a West Papua court to a police officer charged with illegal logging, fuel smuggling and money laundering is an appalling indictment of Indonesia’s utter...
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Myanmar's $6 Bn Timber Corruption Black Hole Revealed by Official Data
New analysis of the Myanmar Government’s forestry and trade data points to a multi-billion dollar illegal logging and exports black hole – indicating widespread criminality and official corruption. The...
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