It cannot be ignored that the use of threatend wildlife for TCM, legal or illegal, has been a significant driver of the poaching and killing of vulnerable species such as tigers, leopards, pangolins, rhinos, bears, saiga and many more over the past decades
Malawi’s justice system has scored a major victory in its fight again illegal wildlife trade with the conviction of three key members of the notorious Lin-Zhang wildlife trafficking network.
In an indication that China is getting serious about properly prosecuting wildlife criminals, a court in Jiangsu province has jailed a man for 11-and-a-half years and confiscated about £54,900 (500,000 RMB) worth of his private assets for ivory smuggling
To mark Global Tiger Day 2019 (29 July), we have released updated interactive maps of tiger crime incidents and facilities keeping them in captivity, giving insight into the existential crisis currently facing Asian big cats. There are fewer than 4,000 wild tigers on Earth today. While populations may be stable in some parts of their […]
A look at what progress has been made since the 2010 International Tiger Forum in St Petersburg set out to double the wild tiger population by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger
A brief history of EIA's illegal wildlife trade investigations, from elephants and tigers through to pangolins