Today is World Elephant Day and, in the wake of Monday’s deeply alarming UN climate report, it’s an opportunity to focus on the role elephants can play in mitigating the effects of the planet’s changing climate
When it comes to effectively disrupting the criminal networks behind these shipments, few tactics are as successful and effective as co-operation between different enforcement agencies
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"