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 from 2014 to June 2024, accessed through the China […]
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 which has experienced extensive forest destruction. On Wednesday (19 November), EU member states adopted a heavily weakened stance on the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), proposing new delays and a review […]
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. The products – on display in shop windows and, in some cases, advertised on massive posters on the sides of nearby buildings – make a mockery of the Laotian Government’s promises to implement edicts from the Convention […]
From 24 November to 5 December 2025, governments from around the world will gather in Samarkand, Uzbekistan for the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP20) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). This meeting comes at a moment of great consequence for some of the world’s most threatened species […]
Environmental crime is rated as the third or fourth largest organised criminal activity globally, but what motivates those carrying it out, from wealthy kingpins at the head of transnational syndicates to poachers at the other end of the scale? A new book – Green Crime: Inside the minds of the people destroying the planet and […]
EIA’s report Cooling the Climate Crisis analysed the climate impact of supermarket refrigeration and revealed that up to 70 per cent of a supermarket’s emissions stem from cooling. Our Climate campaigners have been directly engaging with the retail sector since 2009 to make it aware of the serious impacts of using climate-harming refrigeration while simultaneously […]