LONDON: In its landmark 2008 report Environmental Crime – A Threat to Our Future, the London-based Environmental Agency (EIA) was the first to analyse the combined impact of multiple environmental crime types and the coordinated global response they demanded. Some 18 years later, that call for urgent action has gone substantially unheeded. In its new […]
LONDON: Acting on intelligence provided by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Zambian law enforcement agents raided a house in the capital Lusaka on 9 March and arrested nine Zambians, including an individual from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), allegedly involved in the illegal wildlife trade. Officers from the Department of National Parks and […]
Illegal climate-wrecking super-pollutant refrigerant gases are still being smuggled into Europe, new research shows
The Ferretti Group, an Italian superyacht builder which boasts of using “the best quality standard of Burmese teak for teak decking”, is seeking new investment to bolster its business by going public, despite being accused of breaching EU law on the importation of what’s called ‘the king of woods’
Myanmar’s violent military junta is tomorrow (16 September) poised to hold one of two massive auctions of illicit timber to replenish its coffers; the second is due to take place on 30 September.
Europe’s ambitions to fight climate change are being torpedoed by a soaring trade in illegal hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)