While sailing, they were collecting interesting information for EIA’s Eyes of the Ocean programme, including sightings of swallows and an egret taking a rest on the yachts, pilot whales and dolphins, flying fish, squid and gorgeous albatrosses. The wildlife depressingly contrasted with worrying amounts of marine debris
For a successful crime cake, you’ll need a victim in demand, easy to move to market and one that fetches a high price. It’s also very handy if the people who decide on priorities are constrained or unaware or, best of all, just not bothered about this particular victim – often the case with wildlife and forest crime
People sometimes ask me how I can do my job. Actually, I don’t know how the folk at STE do theirs. EIA’s work is in many ways a one removed from the grim reality of poaching because we are focusing on the trade; so it’s rare for us to be present at the immediate aftermath of a poaching incident.
Our Lead Campaigner, Debbie Banks, reports on the recent CITES meeting where civil society was voted out of the room in a ploy for China and others to discuss our ivory investigation findings. China's lack of enforcement is alarming and we will continue to challenge it on its CITES commitments to tigers and elephants.
Almost 10 years ago, we investigated the case of more than six tonnes of illegal ivory seized en route to Japan. It had been only one of 19 which had left the shores of Africa, all heading to Asia. To this day, no-one apart from a minor fixer in Singapore has ever been prosecuted, let alone convicted.
A short film showing the remarkable success of our 3 year training project in Tanzania. It reveals the fascinating and thought provoking documentaries, produced under the project, that are being used to campaign for social and environmental rights throughout Tanzania