International Customs Day (26 February) is this year dedicated to the departments and officials around the world who have played a major role in helping international trade carry on despite the COVID-19 crisis – and all while continuing to fight illegal wildlife trade
Here are just a few highlights from 2020 to show just how much meaningful change a small organisation such as EIA can achieve
A toxic combination of widespread corruption, weak or absent rule of law, low levels of development and hotspots of armed conflict have left several African countries wide open to exploitation by well-organised transnational criminal gangs
West and Central Africa have emerged as major sourcing and export hubs for the illegal trafficking of elephant ivory and pangolin scales to Asia
Five live tigers and a severed tiger head have been seized from a ‘zoo’ in Thailand long suspected of involvement in illegal wildlife trade
The Environmental Investigation Agency and 26 other NGOs urge lawmakers in China to act to reduce demand for wild animal species threatened with extinction