Pangolin trade probe exposes serious legal loopholes
Legal loopholes in wildlife trade between Uganda and China could facilitate an illicit shadow trade in the scales of endangered pangolins, a new report warns
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Déjà vu as European Commission proposal to tackle climate-harming hydrofluorocarbons falls short in critical sectors
Proposed new rules unveiled yesterday (5 April) by the European Commission to restrict climate-damaging fluorinated gases (F-gases) fall short of what is needed and could result in another lost decade in the increasingly urgent fight against climate change
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Italian superyacht firm exposed by EIA for breaking EU law by importing Myanmar teak floats on Hong Kong stock exchange
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’
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Despite EU sanctions, cash-hungry Myanmar military offers to accept Euros in upcoming teak auction
Despite EU sanctions, cash-hungry Myanmar military offers to accept Euros in upcoming teak auction.
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CITES approves totoaba fish trade in major blow to imperiled vaquita porpoise
The 74th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) decided by nine votes to six on Thursday to permit Earth Ocean Farms (EOF), an aquaculture facility in Mexico, to engage in trade of captive-bred totoaba fish
Footage reveals criminal-run tiger ‘farms’ in Laos have actually been expanded
The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) today released new covert footage showing the huge expansion of captive-breeding facilities in Laos for tigers and bears