Reports

In this briefing we provide some key considerations for negotiators going into INC-1 (previous briefing in this series can be found here).

st and Central Africa continues to raise concerns among Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) as a significant hub for global wildlife trafficking.

COP27 will take place in Sharm-El-Sheikh from the 6th to the 18th of November, a crucial time to put methane at the center of discussions.

It’s called the National Ivory Action Plan (NIAP) and was designed to improve elephants chances of survival from illegal killing. Parties to CITES ( Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) are identified for inclusion in the NIAP if they have worrying levels of poaching and/or illegal ivory trade and […]

Inside, you can read about an exciting project we’ve launched with the Alan Turing Institute to develop a new artificial intelligence tool to identify individual tigers by their stripe patterns, as unique as fingerprints are to humans. We believe this tool will be of invaluable help in identifying tigers and their skins found in illegal trade, as well as revealing possible sources and trafficking systems. You’ll also find news of all the major activities and outputs of our busy campaign teams.

A deadly cocktail of unexplained chemical gases harmful to the Earth’s ozone layer and climate is building up in the atmosphere, documented in this briefing to the 34th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MoP34), in Montreal, Canada. EIA investigations traced the source of CFC-11 to illegal production and use in the polyurethane […]