Acting on intelligence provided by EIA, Zambian law enforcement agents raided a house in the capital Lusaka on 9 March and arrested nine Zambians, including an individual from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), allegedly involved in the illegal wildlife trade. Officers from the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) seized just under 550kg […]
Despite taking some commendable steps to tackle illegal wildlife trade, Vietnam remains a regional hub for criminal networks smuggling products such as ivory, pangolin scales and rhino horns from Africa. EIA’s research and investigations first exposed the scale of the criminal trade linked to Vietnam in the 2018 report Exposing the Hydra, followed by the […]
Angola has been formally sanctioned for failing to make progress in tackling the illegal trade in elephant ivory since 2020
EIA sent teams of campaigners from our UK and US offices to the 77th meeting of the Standing Committee (SC77) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
The World Heritage Committee’s first in-person meeting since 2019 is prime opportunity for it to strengthen its commitments to protect some of the most precious environments on the planet
Despite Government efforts to reverse the tide of illegal wildlife trade, Vietnamese-led criminal networks continue to play a major role in fuelling poaching and the decline of biodiversity in Africa