Asian elephants have been categorised as endangered for nearly four decades and their cross-border commercial trade has been banned for almost 50 years. The threats posed by human elephant conflict and habitat loss on the species have been well documented, although less systematic attention has been given to the threat of poaching and illegal trade.
EIA recommendations for the 77th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee
Learn more about focal issues that EIA’s Wildlife Campaign aims to discuss during SC77.
Japan’s elephant ivory market is open – the legal framework for the control of the trade in ivory is designed and built to regulate and facilitate commercial ivory trade and support ivory traders.
This report has been prepared by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA UK) to provide guidance to Parties and entities engaged with wildlife crime enforcement issues relating to West and Central Africa, including State agencies, intergovernmental (IGOs) and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).
EIA has prepared a briefing document ahead of SC75 to analyse a) the progress made by a number of countries in the NIAP process and b) the Secretariat’s associated analyses of progress This document contains a number of EIA recommendations to SC75’