Tag: undercover-investigation

LONDON: Shops in Laos are openly selling illegal wildlife products containing rhino horn and bear bile in defiance of domestic laws and internationally agreed commitments, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has discovered. The products – on display in shop windows and, in some cases, advertised on massive posters on the sides of nearby buildings – make a mockery of the Laotian Government’s promises to implement edicts […]

LONDON: Old wheelie bins discarded by UK householders may be funding organised crime and contributing to environmental injustice and human rights violations around the globe. In the first of a new two-part report, Dirty Deals, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA UK) reveals startling evidence of how regulatory weaknesses, legal loopholes and outdated practices in […]

Asian illegal wildlife trade kingpin Teo Boon Ching has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by a court in New York for large-scale trafficking of rhinoceros horns

In July, Romania was revealed to be a major illegal entry point in the EU for Chinese-made, climate-harming HFC refrigerants – but more than two months later, zero enforcement action has been taken

Europe’s ambitions to fight climate change are being torpedoed by a soaring trade in illegal hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)

Traders are paying to ship illicit Myanmar teak into Europe via the back door, skirting import rules to get their hands on the valuable timber for high-paying clients