China is for the first time due to host a major international biological diversity conference – and EIA is urging it to start tackling environmental crime and exploitation as a priority
The Environmental Investigation Agency and 26 other NGOs urge lawmakers in China to act to reduce demand for wild animal species threatened with extinction
EIA intelligence indicates that illegal wildlife trade is continuing despite the pandemic
Despite intense international scrutiny since the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese Government’s revision of its key legislation on conservation and trade in wild animals looks set to be a major disappointment and failure of nerve
China's Wildlife Protection Law allows for commercial trade in parts and products of big cats, pangolins, elephants, bears and other threatened wild animal species – and early indications suggest that situation is unlikely to change
Authorities in China are still promoting the use of a COVID-19 treatment containing bile extracted from the gall bladders of caged bears