Zimbabwe’s Elephant Summit fails to rally continent-wide support for a renewed legal ivory trade
Zimbabwe’s ‘Elephant Summit’ last week failed in its attempt to secure a unified voice to demand a legal international trade in ivory be reopened
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EIA podcast – Ban it and keep it banned … the high cost to elephants of legal ivory trade
Zimbabwe has hosted what it called an ‘Elephant Summit’ for itself and several other African nations with the aim of restarting the legal international trade in ivory and selling off their stockpiled elephant tusks
Fresh bid to revive global ivory trade with a ‘one-off’ sale is likely to drive elephant poaching surge
A new attempt by several Southern African nations to reopen the global ivory trade via another ‘one-off’ sale of stockpiled tusks could mean disaster for threatened elephants
EIA calls on Iceland’s Prime Minister to halt the resumption of whale slaughter this summer
EIA has urged the Prime Minister of Iceland to intervene and prevent the resumption of commercial whaling in the country after a three-year hiatus
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Pressure on Japan grows as poll shows public wants more action on plastic pollution ahead of G7
Two out of three Japanese citizens want a new international treaty to tackle the escalating problem of plastic pollution, but their Government is reluctant to commit
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One in 10 Chinese tourists in Japan and South-East Asia plan to buy ivory despite knowing it’s illegal
New report indicates how Chinese travellers may consume ivory while abroad in Japan or South-East Asia