In our landmark 2008 report Environmental Crime – A Threat to Our Future, EIA was the first to analyse the combined impact of multiple environmental crime types and the coordinated global response they demanded. Some 18 years later, that call for urgent action has gone substantially unheeded. In our new report Crimes that Affect the […]
LONDON: In its landmark 2008 report Environmental Crime – A Threat to Our Future, the London-based Environmental Agency (EIA) was the first to analyse the combined impact of multiple environmental crime types and the coordinated global response they demanded. Some 18 years later, that call for urgent action has gone substantially unheeded. In its new […]
Climate change is too often viewed as something remote, with its impacts felt in other places, by other people less fortunate. The following quote popularised on social media has never felt more applicable – “Climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where […]
The UK, Europe and many other parts of the globe are already experiencing rising temperatures and more regular heatwaves – and with a higher than 90 per cent chance of the world experiencing an El Niño event this year, conditions could worsen significantly. In this special blog, EIA Climate Campaigner Joanna Sparks takes a look […]
On behalf of EIA, co-founders Allan Thornton, Dave Currey and I are delighted to warmly congratulate the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) on its 75th anniversary. We are proud that AWI has been an important partner of EIA since it was founded in 1984. Indeed, without the strong support and encouragement of AWI Founder Christine Stevens […]
Vietnam has made laudable progress in recent years to shut illicit timber out of its supply chains and so keep access to the lucrative export markets on which its huge furniture industry relies. But new investigations by EIA’s Forests team have revealed that those efforts are in danger of being undermined by high-risk timber entering […]