We are grateful for the additional contributions to this blog from Solomon Njoroge In December, I travelled to Kenya’s Dandora dumpsite outside the capital Nairobi with colleagues from EIA. We were there with a specific purpose – to understand what synthetic textile exports look like at the end of their journey. We did not […]
As part of the International Whaling Commission’s Bycatch Mitigation Initiative (BMI), five members of the IWCs Bycatch Expert Panel (of whom I am one) contributed to a 10-day bycatch risk assessment workshop in the Republic of Congo. The Consortium for the Conservation of Atlantic Humpback Dolphins (CCAHD) helped to bring together all the relevant partners […]
Last year, authorities in Vietnam indicted a total of 22 defendants for the crimes of smuggling, bribes, fraud and the abuse of public power related to the illegal trade of approximately $71 million worth of timber from January 2021 to January 2024. This case included 13,376 containers of wood veneers made from acacia, eucalyptus, rubberwood […]
We’re pleased to share this guest blog by our Turkish plastics pollution partner Umut Özşimşek, Editor of the platform Çukuravo. On 21 September last year, a massive fire broke out at the Çetin Plastik facility in Küçükdikili, Adana, Türkiye – one of the most severe environmental disasters the city has faced in recent years. […]
The UK produces the world’s second highest amount of plastic waste per person, with an estimated 1.7 billion items of plastic discarded weekly – averaging almost 90 billion items each year. More than half of this plastic waste is incinerated, a volume which rose from 46 per cent in 2022 to 58 per cent in […]
With Global Tiger Day (29 July) upon us, I want to take a moment to pay tribute to the late Valmik Thapar, an immense figure in the battle to save the wild tiger. Valmik sadly passed away in Delhi on the 31 May this year after a courageous battle with cancer. He was surrounded by […]