The influence of the global petrochemicals industry and plastic-producing countries has frustrated meaningful progress towards agreeing a Global Plastics Treaty
Identifying illegal wildlife shipments at sea is like looking for a needle in hundreds of haystacks
Campaigners from EIA’s UK and US offices have returned from the 19th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP19) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Panama – and declared it an overall win for wildlife
The huge variation in sentencing across the African continent is concerning – in Nigeria, sentencing is so lenient that it implies impunity while, for the general public in Uganda, two years for four tonnes of ivory in Kenya and life for possession of 10kg makes no sense at all
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
Images of a container-load of pangolin scales or ivory or, occasionally, the picture of a rather glum-looking fellow in handcuffs holding up a tiger skin are compelling to Western audiences, but these represent only a disruption, not an end to the stripping down of the world’s biodiversity