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Nigeria has emerged as a hotspot for wildlife and forest crime – but all that could be about the change

Billions of tonnes of plastics have been produced by human beings and it can be found polluting every corner of the planet, from the highest mountains to the deepest seas. New research has just revealed that it’s also present in human blood

The UN CoP26 climate change summit threw an international focus on global warming and what needs to be done to mitigate its worst potential impacts – but was the conference a success or a failure? And what needs to happen next to avert catastrophe?

To date, humans have produced a staggering 10 billion tonnes of plastics – much of which is polluting the natural environment and is likely to continue to do so for hundreds if not thousands of years

Plundering the world’s precious natural resources is a multi-billion dollar business and, as such, keeping on top of the facts, statistics, seizures and trends of environmental crime means understanding huge amounts of raw data – data which can now be much more easily managed with EIA’s new Global Environmental Crime Tracker

EIA has a deserved global reputation for our undercover investigations into environmental crime, but less well known is the painstaking work done behind the scenes by our Intelligence Team