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
Tag: environmental-crime
China’s revised Wildlife Protection Law goes live – but it’s a missed chance to help endangered species
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
UK farmers are still burning toxic plastics on agricultural land despite it being illegal
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
CITES gets tough with Mexico to compel it to protect critically endangered vaquita porpoises
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
EIA podcast – how artificial intelligence is helping to tackle illegal trade in tigers
In partnership with the UK’s Alan Turing Institute, EIA is currently working on an ambitious project to create a database of tiger stripe patterns – as individual as human fingerprints – to help identify and trace animals in the wild and in illegal trade.
Nigeria greenlights a new law to tackle wildlife trafficking and protect endangered species
New legislation to combat wildlife trafficking and protect highly endangered species has passed its first reading at the Nigeria House of Representatives