The case was an important one, involving multiple perpetrators operating across borders in two different continents, a criminal network trading in both poached elephant ivory and pangolin scales
Following weeks, if not months, of preparation, EIA investigators are deployed to the field with the aim of engaging subjects of interest and obtaining valuable information on illicit trades and criminal networks. Gathering information in the field can be a long and arduous process, especially in new places where we need to start with a […]
The creative use of intelligence has always been at the heart of EIA’s investigations and campaigning – the ability to make sense of reams of information and build up a clear picture of the networks involved in various forms of environmental crime
"I often say that if I was a billionaire, I would try to give everyone alive six weeks in nature just so they could feel their true place in the world. One week of that would surely be devoted to elephants"
In an indication that China is getting serious about properly prosecuting wildlife criminals, a court in Jiangsu province has jailed a man for 11-and-a-half years and confiscated about £54,900 (500,000 RMB) worth of his private assets for ivory smuggling
Botswana has been in the news a lot this past week, following the mysterious mass die-off of hundreds of elephants