This Sunday (8 June) is United Nations World Oceans Day and the theme for 2025 is ‘Wonder: Sustaining what sustains us’. The ocean sustains we humans in many ways – capturing carbon, providing wellbeing and as a source of nutrition, with fishing an age-old world-wide tradition. Today, with a new production high of more than […]
In April 2008, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released a landmark report, Environmental Crime – A Threat to Our Future. The report brought together key evidence across a range of crime types – from illegal logging and wildlife trafficking to pollution and climate crimes – highlighting the role of corruption and the critical need for […]
Almost four decades after the 1986 global moratorium on commercial whaling put an end to the mass slaughter of whales, opposition to commercial whaling around the world is stronger than ever. Yet as we mark World Whale Day 2025, Japan, Norway and Iceland – three of the world’s wealthiest nations that otherwise generally abide by […]
EIA is currently participating in a meeting of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) which is seeking to push ahead with actions to tackle two major sources of marine plastic pollution – plastic pellets and fishing gear
In recent years, the recycling industry has flourished in the Çukuroava region as a result of the overall multiplication of waste and plastification in our global economy, particularly in the Global North
After nearly two decades of negotiations, the member states of the United Nations last week in New York agreed an historic treaty to protect the high seas