Season’s greetings and thanks for all your support this year

On behalf of everybody here at EIA’s London HQ, I’d like to wish our supporters and followers around the world all best wishes for a peaceful and successful new year.
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Reflecting on the past 12 months, we’ve had another mix of frantic hard work and successful outcomes, from our March exposé of a lawless playground for trafficked wildlife in Laos and the revelations about the High Street retail chain propping up Norwegian whaling to the release our first major piece of work on the theft of Myanmar’s forests and exposing major flaws in the certification of ‘sustainable’ palm oil.

As always, our programme of work for 2016 is just as ambitious – our campaigners are still hard at this week putting the final touches to a number of documents in preparation for January’s meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Standing Committee ahead of the Conference of Parties later in the year in South Africa. It will be challenging.

But all of us here at EIA are mindful that our followers and supporters are a major part of our success – every time you donate, Tweet or share our news via Facebook or G+ you are helping to further and spread awareness of our vital work to combat the exploitation and havoc wreaked by transnational environmental criminals.

EIA is only a small organisation working with limited resources and often in hazardous and difficult conditions – yet our 30-plus years of experience show just how much of an impact small, mobile and creative groups can have.

So, my sincere thanks for all your support, for this year and on into the next.