LONDON: China’s legal domestic market for pangolin medicine products is a key driver of the global illegal trade and poaching of pangolins, a new briefing from the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) demonstrates. A View from the Courts – The illegal trade of pangolins in China analyses 169 Chinese court judgments involving pangolins from 2014 […]
LONDON: Shops in Laos are openly selling illegal wildlife products containing rhino horn and bear bile in defiance of domestic laws and internationally agreed commitments, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has discovered. The products – on display in shop windows and, in some cases, advertised on massive posters on the sides of nearby buildings – make a mockery of the Laotian Government’s promises to implement edicts […]
LONDON: 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 […]
Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, new research shows
A new investigation has revealed that the illegal trade in the swim bladders of endangered totoaba fish which is driving the vaquita porpoise to extinction is thriving on social media
An investigation by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA UK) has found the body parts of threatened leopards and pangolins being used as ingredients in at least 88 traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) products.