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A new species of pangolin has been discovered, but already it is deemed to be threatened by illegal trade. The Indo-Burmese pangolin (Manis indoburmanica ) is the tenth to be found and was identified by scientists who were conducting routine examination of pangolin scales seized in India.

Thailand’s newly announced ban on plastic waste imports is a monumental victory for the health of the country’s people and environment. However, history has shown that such bans, while necessary, often displace the problem rather than solve it.

In April this year, the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee launched an inquiry to assess whether the UK is on track to meet the targets of the Global Methane Pledge. EIA Climate Campaigner Kim O’Dowd contributed to the inquiry, presenting evidence ...

The EIA has sent a letter to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, on behalf of 35 NGOs, expressing deep concerns about the EU’s stance on methane mitigation and the global warming crisis following COP29 and the US Presidential election. We urge her to take a leadership role on this critical issue.

In another major win for Myanmar’s forests, a penalty order of €150,000 has been issued against a Dutch firm for using illicit Myanmar teak on Jeff Bezos’ superyacht Koru. Just days earlier, a UK court fined Sunseeker International more than £350,000 for a similar offence.

The UN CoP29 climate summit concluded in Baku on 24 November with a climate finance deal that has been branded a betrayal. It is hardly surprising that the latest CoP, hosted by a major fossil fuel-producing country for the third year in a row, has ended in disappointment

In a landmark case in the UK courts, a luxury yacht firm first exposed by EIA has been handed stiff penalties for using ‘blood’ teak imported from Myanmar on some of the vessels it builds. Sunseeker International Ltd received fines and costs totalling £358,759.64 for 11 specific imports.

For the third year in a row, EIA has looked into the systems being used to keep participants cool annual UN Climate Change Conference (CoP29). Once again we can reveal that they are heavily reliant on potent climate-wrecking refrigerant gases.

The global plastic waste trade is an environmental disaster hiding in plain sight, EIA’s latest report concludes. The plastic waste trade fuels organised crime, drives working conditions that amount to human rights violations and is devastating to the environment and human health.