EIA podcast – will a new strategy on environmental crime tame Nigeria’s Wild West?
Nigeria has emerged as a hotspot for wildlife and forest crime – but all that could be about the change
Tag: poaching
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
Our investigation into pangolin trade from Uganda to China exposes serious legal loopholes
Legal loopholes in wildlife trade between Uganda and China could facilitate an illicit shadow trade in the scales of endangered pangolins, our latest report warns
In approving totoaba fish trade, CITES may have signed the death warrant for the vaquita porpoise
An international meeting has given the green light for commercial farming and trade in captive-bred totoaba fish – and in doing so may have condemned the last few remaining vaquita porpoises to extinction
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Footage reveals criminal-run tiger ‘farms’ in Laos have actually been expanded, not shut down
New covert footage shows the huge expansion of captive-breeding facilities in Laos for tigers and bears
EIA calls on CITES to tackle the Nigeria-Vietnam trafficking corridor for ivory and pangolin scales
EIA has called on the 74th meeting of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to tackle the Nigeria-Vietnam wildlife trafficking corridor