New research by EIA has shown that the volume of trade of some of the most widely trafficked wildlife commodities – raw ivory, pangolin scales, rhino horn and tigers – is now resurging after being temporarily suppressed by the coronavirus pandemic
Exacerbated by the commercialisation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the 1950s, the demand for pangolin meat and scales drove the decline of an estimated 94 per cent of pangolins in China between the 1960s and 2000s
1 February marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year and, in the Chinese zodiac, the dawning of another Year of the Tiger
EIA is pleased to share this guest blog by Charles Emogor. Through EIA’s work to address transnational pangolin trafficking in West and Central Africa, we engage with Charles as a pangolin science expert on Nigeria. Since childhood, I’ve been fascinated by the natural world and growing up in a rural part of Nigeria played […]
In a year which has seen the real-world consequences of climate catastrophe seldom out of the headlines, the arrival of an efficient, natural refrigerant residential air-con unit on the European market couldn’t be more timely
Today is World Elephant Day and, in the wake of Monday’s deeply alarming UN climate report, it’s an opportunity to focus on the role elephants can play in mitigating the effects of the planet’s changing climate