An international coalition of environmental groups is today calling on Yahoo! Japan and its parent company, the LY Corporation, to stop selling products containing whale and dolphin meat after a new investigation found high levels of toxins in some of the nearly 1,000 cetacean food items available for purchase on the massive search engine and […]
A senior EIA Ocean campaigner has received the top award of the European Cetacean Society. The ECS Mandy McMath Conservation Award was presented to Sarah Dolman as she was attending the Society’s 36th Annual Conference in the Azores, Portugal last week. The award is presented each year for outstanding contribution in the field of marine […]
Tens of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales are killed each year in European waters due to being bycaught in fishing gear – and some populations are coming perilously close to extinction. Podcast – What on Earth? The grim toll of fisheries bycatch on whales, dolphins and porpoises in European waters Subscribe via Apple […]
Tens of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as cetaceans) are dying every year in European waters as a result of being bycaught in fishing gear – and some populations are coming perilously close to extinction. A new EIA report released today (6 May) reveals that the degree of bycatch is so serious […]
Covering one packed agenda, four interventions and six hectic days, EIA campaigners share the highlights of the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee (SC78) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Geneva. Elephants Asian elephants SC78 marked EIA’s first engagement at CITES on the […]
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 […]