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US timber traders help support Myanmar’s brutal junta by skirting laws to import illicit teak
Today (16 May), EIA names 12 major American timber firms importing teak from Myanmar since the start of the 2021 military coup
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Today (16 May), EIA names 12 major American timber firms importing teak from Myanmar since the start of the 2021 military coup
As China’s amended Wildlife Protection Law comes into effect, EIA reiterates its concerns about the law’s encouragement and allowance of the utilisation of threatened wild animals for commercial purposes
Mismanagement of agriplastic waste occurs throughout the UK food supply chain – including UK farmers who continue to burn or bury plastics used in food production on their land despite the practices being banned
The plastics used in agricultural production – commonly called agriplastics – account for only 3.5 per cent of the plastic used around the world each year, but they directly pollute the human food chain and harm the wider environment.
Amid growing concern about the damage and health risks to humans, wildlife and the environment caused by the increasing use of agriplastics in farming, little is being done by the UK’s major supermarkets and the Government to address the issue, a new survey reveals
Following sustained calls from EIA and its campaign partners for Mexico to clamp down on the illegal totoaba fish trade which is driving the critically endangered vaquita porpoise to extinction, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has today announced it is taking action