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Highlighting EIA’s illegal trade concerns for wildlife and trees at CITES Standing Committee

This year is a big one for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), with the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee (SC78) kicking off in Geneva, Switzerland from 3-8 February. This will be followed by the much larger 20th Conference of the Parties (CoP20) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan later in the year. EIA […]

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There’s a new species of pangolin — and illegal trade means it’s already likely to be critically endangered

A new species of pangolin has been discovered, but already it is deemed to be threatened by illegal trade. The Indo-Burmese pangolin (Manis indoburmanica ) is the tenth to be found and was identified by scientists who were conducting routine examination of pangolin scales seized in India. Some of these scales were identified as coming from […]

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Could this move herald an end to China’s use of threatened wildlife in traditional medicines?

The Government of China has made a commitment (Chinese) to supporting the development of substitutes for endangered wildlife used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The announcement by the National Medical Products Administration of China (NMPA) is an encouraging step towards ending the use of threatened wildlife in TCM and represents tangible progress following a proposal […]

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Critical climate targets are being jeopardised by rogue HFC-23 greenhouse gas emissions

The world’s pressing climate targets are being jeopardised by huge rogue emissions of a potent greenhouse gas. HFC-23 emissions reached a record high of 17,300 tonnes in 2019, equivalent to more than a quarter of a billion tonnes of carbon dioxide. The climate super-pollutant is produced and emitted primarily as an unwanted byproduct of manufacturing […]

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Norges Bank cuts ties with traditional medicine firm over its use of endangered species

Norges Bank has divested from a major traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) company in the wake of EIA’s major exposé Investing in Extinction, which found the body parts of threatened leopards and pangolins being used as ingredients in at least 88 products. The bank cited an ‘unacceptable risk’ of Tianjin Pharmaceutical Da Re Tang Group Corp […]

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EIA at 40 podcast – ‘EIA helped change the narrative around organised criminality and environmental crime’

In the countdown to EIA’s 40th anniversary in September, as well as sharing films and stories from our archive, we’ve also recorded a short series of new podcasts with some of the longest serving campaigners to get an insight into how the organisation has evolved over four decades.     Podcast – What on Earth? […]