International Tiger Day is a chance to reflect on the pressing need to stop tiger farming and to end demand for tiger parts and products, helping by not visiting tiger farms when on holiday to pose and play with captive tigers and urging governments to actively call for an end to all trade from wild or captive tigers
With tiger farming long pushed to the margins of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), our Tigers Campaign is pleased to see the issue back in the spotlight and recognised as a serious threat to the future of wild tigers
A key recommendation directed to the Hong Kong authorities to counter the illicit trade in Siamese rosewood has finally been accepted. In an EIA-hosted event at CITES, the Hong Kong Management Authority announced that enactment of the legislation has been scheduled for November
The 65th Meeting of the Standing Committee (SC65) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) will take place in Geneva. Our campaigners will attend and urge Parties to stop stimulating demand in wildlife products focusing on Asian big cats (tigers), elephants and tropical forests.
In May, EIA and fellow NGO The Black Fish presented a paper to the Scientific Committee meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) highlighting the threat of illegal drift netting to populations of whales, dolphins and porpoises whereupon this information will be relayed to European ministers
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil is intended to prevent destruction of High Conservation Value forests and protect forest-dependent communities from exploitation by palm oil firms. A report in the latest edition of Indonesian magazine Tempo shows the body’s complaints process is failing to uphold its standards