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EIA is adding it voice to civil society organisations across Europe to call on all EU institutions and member states to stand by their commitments and uphold the integrity of the landmark European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), essential for forests, resilient supply chains and global climate stability ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...