International Tiger Day is a chance to reflect on the pressing need to stop tiger farming and to end demand for tiger parts and products, helping by not visiting tiger farms when on holiday to pose and play with captive tigers and urging governments to actively call for an end to all trade from wild or captive tigers
With tiger farming long pushed to the margins of the UN Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), our Tigers Campaign is pleased to see the issue back in the spotlight and recognised as a serious threat to the future of wild tigers
A key recommendation directed to the Hong Kong authorities to counter the illicit trade in Siamese rosewood has finally been accepted. In an EIA-hosted event at CITES, the Hong Kong Management Authority announced that enactment of the legislation has been scheduled for November
The Autumn 2013 issue of our bi-annual newsletter Investigator, featuring an overview of key campaign activities during the past six months. This issue features: The cool technology revolution that’s easier on the climate and lots more
The 25th Meeting of Parties to the Montreal Protocol opened in Bangkok, Thailand today (October 21, 2013), offering an historic opportunity to tackle climate change and prevent the release into the atmosphere of more than 100 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide-equivalent (CO2e) by the middle of the century through a global phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)
So, the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) has concluded. EIA campaigners and friends from range states were at this massive meeting in Bangkok, working hard and calling on Parties to stop stimulating demand for ivory, Asian big cats and rosewood