It’s the 20th anniversary of palm oil watchdog RSPO – but 20 years of failure is nothing to celebrate
Today (8 April), the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RPSO) – the main voluntary certification scheme for palm oil – will be 20-years-old
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World Pangolin Day 2024 – on the trail of the elusive, critically endangered Sunda pangolin
On the eve of World Pangolin Day 2024 (17 February), EIA campaigner Erin Chong ventures into a remote forest in Malaysia in pursuit of the elusive Sunda pangolin
The Singapore ivory seizure, a landmark bust which drove changes in the way wildlife crime is tackled today
In late June 2002, the container ship MOL Independence docked at Singapore port after a voyage of almost a month from Durban in South Africa. On board was a consignment which had been on a far longer journey
Suppressed by the COVID pandemic, the illegal wildlife trade is now getting back into full swing
New research by EIA has shown that the volume of trade of some of the most widely trafficked wildlife commodities – raw ivory, pangolin scales, rhino horn and tigers – is now resurging after being temporarily suppressed by the coronavirus pandemic
World Pangolin Day 2022 – it’s time to pile on more pressure for better pangolin protection
Exacerbated by the commercialisation of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in the 1950s, the demand for pangolin meat and scales drove the decline of an estimated 94 per cent of pangolins in China between the 1960s and 2000s
It’s a new Year of the Tiger and China needs to get serious about protecting this iconic species
1 February marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year and, in the Chinese zodiac, the dawning of another Year of the Tiger