Following sustained calls from EIA and its campaign partners for Mexico to clamp down on the illegal totoaba fish trade which is driving the critically endangered vaquita porpoise to extinction, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has today announced it is taking action
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
EIA campaigners will be at the 74th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee to push for a range of outcomes needed to protect endangered species from the ravages of burgeoning illegal trade perpetuated by wildlife crime syndicates
Sanctions should be put in place to pressure Mexico to save the vaquita porpoise, whose population is estimated to have dwindled to just 10 remaining animals
The UK Government has introduced its new Environment Bill, which includes powers to end exports of polluting plastic waste to some of the world’s poorest countries
The 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP18) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) wrapped up today in Geneva, Switzerland. Campaigners from our UK and US offices were in attendance throughout, pushing for the adoption of strong decisions to combat illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade. Among the hundreds of […]