Antiques trade in renewed High Court bid to quash UK’s landmark Ivory Act
A small group of antiques dealers is persisting in attempts to overturn a law designed to help protect elephants from poachers and curb the trade in ivory
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For 20 years we’ve campaigned to get China to ban the use of illegal timber – now it’s happening!
China is amending its Forest Law to include a nationwide ban on buying, processing or transporting illegally sourced timber
Corrupt Indonesian timber company director jailed for five years and fined more than $180,000
A high court in Indonesia has upheld the conviction, jail term and substantial fine of a major corrupt timber trader
EIA response to study on delay to ozone layer recovery from unexpected CFC-11 emissions
A new paper looks at the potential delay to the ozone hole recovery caused by unexpected CFC-11 emissions in China
Dutch police seizure of allegedly ‘illegal’ Myanmar Teak, a first for European law enforcement and member states cooperation
In the first raid of its kind, Dutch police have seized a large quantity of Myanmar Teak in the Netherlands circumvented through the Czech Republic in contravention of EU Law.
Fifteen environmental NGOs demand that sustainable palm oil watchdog does its job
As the world faces a climate, deforestation and human rights crisis, we call on the RSPO and its members to fulfill their promise of sustainability and commitment to ending deforestation, peatland destruction and violation of human rights