To mark this year’s 40th anniversary of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling, EIA and a coalition of conservation and animal welfare organisations have joined forces to launch a global petition to end commercial whaling. Despite the global ban, the governments of three countries – Iceland, Japan and Norway – have sanctioned […]
From 24 November to 5 December 2025, governments from around the world will gather in Samarkand, Uzbekistan for the 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP20) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). This meeting comes at a moment of great consequence for some of the world’s most threatened species […]
New landmark initiatives aimed at accelerating global action to cut methane and other climate-harming gases have been launched from the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (CoP30) in Brazil. EIA’s Climate campaigners welcome the announcements, made yesterday at the Methane and Other Non-CO₂ Greenhouse Gases Summit. EIA Climate Campaigner Kim O’Dowd said: “The announcements are […]
An international coalition of environmental groups is today calling on Yahoo! Japan and its parent company, the LY Corporation, to stop selling products containing whale and dolphin meat after a new investigation found high levels of toxins in some of the nearly 1,000 cetacean food items available for purchase on the massive search engine and […]
Police in Japan have arrested Daigo Ivory’s former president and three others for alleged illegal activity related to elephant ivory sales. Arrested in Tokyo on 2 June, the accused have admitted the allegations, according to media reports. The individuals are accused of allegedly masking elephant ivory as mammoth ivory on an internet auction platform which […]
Covering one packed agenda, four interventions and six hectic days, EIA campaigners share the highlights of the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee (SC78) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Geneva. Elephants Asian elephants SC78 marked EIA’s first engagement at CITES on the […]