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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.

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 ...

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' ...

African elephant populations across the continent have experienced an alarming decline in the past 50 years, as highlighted in a paper published in November 2024. African forest elephants have been impacted even more severely than their savanna cousins ...

The EU has reached agreement on a long-awaited regulation to prevent plastic pellet losses in the environment, a major source of microplastics pollution. The decision came in the wake of yet another disastrous pellet spill in European waters off the English coast due to the collision of two ships ...

EIA and six other climate campaigning organisations have issued a joint rebuttal to attempts to delay and water down a vital new regulation addressing EU methane emissions. The EU Methane Regulation, adopted in May last year, is a groundbreaking legal framework ...

Hundreds of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as cetaceans) are bycaught in fishing gear every year and tens of thousands die in European waters. This has been happening for decades and governments have been slow to act, to understand bycatch impacts ...

A court ruling against Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million in damages for its role in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests highlights the ongoing challenges faced by environmental organisations and underscores the need for collective action and the protection of environmental defenders worldwide.

The Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer has stood for four decades as an inspiration for multilateral action. It was established in response to scientific evidence that man-made chemicals, particularly chlorofluorocarbons, were significantly damaging Earth’s ozone layer.