Despite taking some commendable steps to tackle illegal wildlife trade, Vietnam remains a regional hub for criminal networks smuggling products such as ivory, pangolin scales and rhino horns from Africa. EIA’s research and investigations first exposed the scale of the criminal trade linked to Vietnam in the 2018 report Exposing the Hydra, followed by the […]
African elephant populations across the continent have experienced an alarming decline in the past 50 years, as highlighted in a paper published in November 2024. African forest elephants have been impacted even more severely than their savanna cousins, with some regions reporting declines exceeding 90 per cent. This stark reduction raises urgent concerns about the […]
EIA and South African NGO Blood Lions engaged in passionate, honest, expansive and, above all, deeply enlightening discussions with 20 senior and new traditional health practitioners from across five of South Africa’s nine provinces
EIA sent teams of campaigners from our UK and US offices to the 77th meeting of the Standing Committee (SC77) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
Much of the past decade has been a tough time for endangered rhinos, to judge from the recorded seizures of rhino horn being smuggled around the world – but it’s not all bad news for this threatened species …
As we mark World Elephant Day 2023 (12 August), elephant populations in Africa and Asian face a variety of ongoing threats, primarily from organised transnational criminal syndicates involved in the ivory trade