Illegal refrigerant gases still trafficked into Europe as climate emergency worsens
Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, new research shows
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Criminal fish bladder trade could sound the death knell for the last 10 vaquita porpoises
A new investigation has revealed that the illegal trade in the swim bladders of endangered totoaba fish which is driving the vaquita porpoise to extinction is thriving on social media
Revealed: The global banks and finance houses investing in traditional Chinese medicine made with endangered wildlife
An investigation by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA UK) has found the body parts of threatened leopards and pangolins being used as ingredients in at least 88 traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) products.
Jailing of international wildlife crime kingpin a body-blow to illegal trade
Asian illegal wildlife trade kingpin Teo Boon Ching has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by a court in New York for large-scale trafficking of rhinoceros horns
US timber traders are supporting Myanmar’s brutal junta by skirting laws to import teak
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today names 12 major American timber firms importing teak from Myanmar since the start of the 2021 military coup
‘As unique as fingerprints’ – groundbreaking new tiger stripe pattern database to help fight illegal wildlife trade
Citizen scientists, photographers and others are being invited to help build an innovative new artificial intelligence tool to help crack down on the illegal global trade in endangered tigers