We defend the natural world from environmental crime and abuse

In recent years, nitrous oxide has gained attention as a significant environmental threat, yet many people remain unaware of its implications for the climate, the ozone layer and human health. While nitrogen is essential for life, excessive reactive nitrogen results in substantial pollution issues …

Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas the world needs to address in the fight against climate change. In this episode, climate campaigner Jack Corscadden and energy expert Christophe McGlade discuss the impacts of methane and what’s being done to tackle it ...

The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties has now concluded in Brazil. Our campaigners were keeping watch on proceedings and welcome progress under the Just Transition Work Programme, methane initiatives and a focus on fertilisers, although it appears progress stalled on fossil fuels ...

China’s legal domestic market for pangolin medicine products is a key driver of the global illegal trade and poaching of pangolins, a new EIA briefing demonstrates. A View from the Courts – The illegal trade of pangolins in China analyses 169 Chinese court judgments involving pangolins ...

Despite making public commitments to ‘no deforestation’, some of the world’s largest companies have been buying palm oil from a notorious plantation area in Indonesia, owned by PT Borneo Citra Persada Jaya, which has experienced extensive forest destruction ...

Shops in Laos are openly selling illegal wildlife products containing rhino horn and bear bile in defiance of domestic laws and internationally agreed commitments, an undercover investigation by EIA has revealed, making a mockery of the Government’s promises to ban such products ...

From 24 November to 5 December 2025, governments from around the world will gather in Samarkand, Uzbekistan for CITES CoP20. This meeting comes at a moment of great consequence for some of the world’s most threatened species — elephants, rhinos, pangolins, Asian big cats and the vaquita porpoise ...

When it comes to international climate summits, there are few more contentious issues than that of money – who should pay for climate action and how should they do it? As CoP30 unfolds in Brazil, our attention turns once again to Article 6 of the Paris Agreement ...

Environmental crime is rated as the third or fourth largest organised criminal activity globally, but what motivates those carrying it out, from the wealthy kingpins at the head of transnational syndicates to poachers? In her new book, Dr Julia Shaw takes a deep dive into the world of eco crime ...