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Ocean
Yahoo! Japan is selling polluted whale and dolphin meat products to customers
An international coalition of environmental groups is today calling on Yahoo! Japan and its parent company, the LY Corporation, to stop selling products containing whale and dolphin meat after a new investigation found high levels of toxins in some of nearly 1,000 cetacean food items ...
Wildlife
Japanese traders accused of illegal elephant ivory sales, some passed as mammoth
Police in Japan have arrested Daigo Ivory’s former president and three others for alleged illegal activity related to elephant ivory sales. The individuals are also accused of allegedly masking elephant ivory as mammoth ivory on an internet auction platform which banned elephant ivory sales ...
Ocean
The vital importance of fisheries management on World Oceans Day
This Sunday (8 June) is United Nations World Oceans Day and the theme for 2025 is ‘Wonder: Sustaining what sustains us’. The ocean sustains we humans in many ways – capturing carbon, providing wellbeing and as a source of nutrition, with fishing an age-old world-wide tradition ...
Wildlife
Change continues in the TCM sector, but leopards are still left behind
The 78th World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization has adopted the global traditional medicine strategy 2025-34 which sets out guiding principles, objectives, directives and actions to support the development of traditional, complementary and integrative medicines ...
Crime
Environmental crimes gain ground at global summit – but critical gaps still remain
In April 2008, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released a landmark report, Environmental Crime – A Threat to Our Future. The report brought together key evidence across a range of crime types, from illegal logging and wildlife trafficking to pollution and climate crimes ...
Wildlife
New arrest as China continues to uproot a syndicate exposed by EIA
Following eight years spent on the run, another key player in the notorious Shuidong ivory smuggling syndicate first exposed by EIA is finally to face justice. The individual – named only as Huang by authorities – has been arrested and repatriated from Mozambique ...
Ocean
EIA Ocean campaigner honoured for her work on whales and dolphins
A senior EIA Ocean campaigner has received the top award of the European Cetacean Society. The ECS Mandy McMath Conservation Award was presented to Sarah Dolman as she was attending the Society’s 36th Annual Conference in the Azores, Portugal last week ...
Wildlife
Exclusion of pangolin formulae from TCM does NOT end the exploitation
The removal of pangolin-containing formulae from the Chinese Pharmacopeia is definitely a positive development for pangolin protection ... in practice it changes nothing in terms of what can be legally produced, nor does it offer any hope for other species such as leopards ...
Ocean
Tens of thousands of whales and dolphins die in European waters each year
Tens of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales are dying every year in European waters as a result of being bycaught in fishing gear – and some populations are coming close to extinction. Read our new report 'Catch of the Day – The deadly impacts of cetacean bycatch in European waters' ...
Appeal: Help us ban UK plastic waste exports
The UK, excluding the US, generates the most plastic waste per person globally and we are exporting our problem. Help us end this unethical trade.
