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EIA played a crucial role in leading a coalition of environmental groups to secure the UK Ivory Act and we're delighted to see it expanded by the Government this week to now ban importing, exporting and dealing in items containing ivory from hippos, narwhals and killer and sperm whales

EIA will be actively engaging at the 78th Meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES (SC78) on a range of key issues relating to the protection of elephants, rhinos, Asian big cats, pangolins, vaquita porpoises and trees, in addition to broader compliance and enforcement issues.

A new species of pangolin has been discovered, but already it is deemed to be threatened by illegal trade. The Indo-Burmese pangolin (Manis indoburmanica ) is the tenth to be found and was identified by scientists who were conducting routine examination of pangolin scales seized in India.

Thailand’s newly announced ban on plastic waste imports is a monumental victory for the health of the country’s people and environment. However, history has shown that such bans, while necessary, often displace the problem rather than solve it.

In April this year, the House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee launched an inquiry to assess whether the UK is on track to meet the targets of the Global Methane Pledge. EIA Climate Campaigner Kim O’Dowd contributed to the inquiry, presenting evidence ...

The EIA has sent a letter to EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, on behalf of 35 NGOs, expressing deep concerns about the EU’s stance on methane mitigation and the global warming crisis following COP29 and the US Presidential election. We urge her to take a leadership role on this critical issue.

In another major win for Myanmar’s forests, a penalty order of €150,000 has been issued against a Dutch firm for using illicit Myanmar teak on Jeff Bezos’ superyacht Koru. Just days earlier, a UK court fined Sunseeker International more than £350,000 for a similar offence.

The UN CoP29 climate summit concluded in Baku on 24 November with a climate finance deal that has been branded a betrayal. It is hardly surprising that the latest CoP, hosted by a major fossil fuel-producing country for the third year in a row, has ended in disappointment

In a landmark case in the UK courts, a luxury yacht firm first exposed by EIA has been handed stiff penalties for using ‘blood’ teak imported from Myanmar on some of the vessels it builds. Sunseeker International Ltd received fines and costs totalling £358,759.64 for 11 specific imports.