Saving elephants from the ivory trade - EIA
WEBSaving elephants is central to EIA’s work. We have a consistently successful track record that includes: Disrupting criminal networks through undercover investigations. Helping achieve a landmark ban on the ivory trade. Working to close domestic ivory markets. Exposing the global hub of the illegal ivory trade.
Preventing the extinction of the vaquita - EIA
WEBOur work to save the vaquita. As part of our Ocean campaign, EIA is fighting to save the vaquita from extinction. Our work to save the vaquita includes: drawing on the expertise and experience of our work with cetaceans (the collective term for whales, dolphins and porpoises); carrying out undercover investigations into the illegal totoaba trade;
Fighting deforestation and illegal logging - EIA
WEBDeforestation due to illegal logging and destructive forest conversion is directly connected to corruption and crime, cronyism, curbs on transparency and accountability, selective law enforcement, elitist land tenure and compromised judiciaries, and often involves state officials and security apparatus. A forest village.
Sounds green to me – 10 top environmental songs - EIA
WEBSounds green to me – 10 top environmental songs. Between the bombastic and scathing protest songs of Neil Young and the poignant poetics of Laurie Anderson, there’s room on the green songs playlist for comedy, pop, rock, blues, soul and the experimental avant garde. So here are 10 of the best songs concerned with the environment.
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WEBMaking the law work. The EIA’s response to the UK Government’s legislation on forest risk commodities. In 2021, the UK Government passed the Environment Act, under which businesses will be required to establish and implement a due diligence system to ensure the forest-risk commodities they use are legal. To date, we are still waiting for ...
Wildlife - EIA
WEBWildlife - EIA. Ozone and climate action under the Montreal Protocol. The ongoing threat to Indonesia’s legal timber trade. Combating money laundering and the illegal wildlife trade. Tackling the crossovers between forest and wildlife crime. Illegal trade in chemicals controlled by the Montreal Protocol. Indonesia set to weaken timber ...
About us - EIA
WEBAbout us - EIA. Ozone and climate action under the Montreal Protocol. The ongoing threat to Indonesia’s legal timber trade. Combating money laundering and the illegal wildlife trade. Tackling the crossovers between forest and wildlife crime. Illegal trade in chemicals controlled by the Montreal Protocol. Indonesia set to weaken timber ...
Plastic Waste Trade – EIA Reports
WEBThe global trade in plastic waste has mirrored the growth in global plastic production, allowing high income, high-consuming countries to avoid the direct social and environmental impacts of their plastic problem and driving the ever-expanding production and consumption of virgin (new) plastics. EIA’s report – ‘The Truth Behind Trash ...
What is CITES? - EIA
WEBSep 28, 2022 · The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an international agreement to which governments voluntarily adhere and which seeks to ensure that the trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.. The annual international trade in wildlife is estimated to be worth billions of dollars and ranges from live animals ...
Corruption, bloodshed and death – the curse of rosewood - EIA
WEBAug 16, 2013 · Using camera traps, the environmental NGO Freeland has documented armed rosewood smugglers, one of whom shot a park ranger on July 11, 2013. Then on July 23, 2013 park rangers and smugglers exchanged gunfire, leaving two Thai villagers dead and several injured. There is an ongoing investigation, with …