Hundreds of thousands of dolphins, porpoises and whales (collectively known as cetaceans) are bycaught in fishing gear every year and tens of thousands die in European waters. This has been happening for decades. Governments have been slow to act, to understand bycatch impacts and, more critically, to prevent bycatch from happening despite stringent laws in […]
The 78th meeting of the Standing Committee (SC78) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) kicked off in Geneva, Switzerland, on Monday. This is the body that considers compliance, implementation and enforcement matters, providing guidance to the CITES Secretariat and Parties through recommendations and preparing draft decisions for […]
Following the UK’s historic election, EIA welcomes new Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and urges his new Government to take a positive and proactive approach to forest protection
As a species, leopards are adaptable and built to endure – we should be giving them the best chance of doing so
In November 2022, I commented on the sentence of Pascal Ochiba who, at the age of 63, received a life sentence from the specialist wildlife court in Uganda for possession of less than 10kg of ivory
Despite decades of scientific attention to this issue, there are no harbour porpoise populations in European waters where bycatch has been adequately managed and prevented