On behalf of EIA, co-founders Allan Thornton, Dave Currey and I are delighted to warmly congratulate the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) on its 75th anniversary. We are proud that AWI has been an important partner of EIA since it was founded in 1984. Indeed, without the strong support and encouragement of AWI Founder Christine Stevens […]
The UK and devolved governments must do more to prevent the fisheries bycatch of dolphins, porpoises, seals, seabirds and protected fish such as salmon and sharks. That’s the message EIA delivered to Parliament with colleagues from conservation and welfare groups, led by Wildlife and Countryside Link. Together we produced the report Hidden in the Haul: […]
LONDON: Negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty are stuck in limbo, but new research by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) indicates alternative ways forward to both lower plastics production and circumvent the petrostates and vested interests holding the process hostage. After several rounds of talks beginning in 2022, progress by the UN’s Intergovernmental Negotiating […]
The International Whaling Commission effectively banned commercial whaling from 1986 and yet the world’s amazing and environmentally essential whales are still being hunted for their flesh and blubber. EIA has joined forces with several partners to launch a new global petition calling on the last three whaling nations to join the 21st century and to […]
To mark this year’s 40th anniversary of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling, EIA and a coalition of conservation and animal welfare organisations have joined forces to launch a global petition to end commercial whaling. Sign the petition now Despite the global ban, the governments of three countries – Iceland, Japan and […]
LONDON: To mark this year’s 40th anniversary of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) moratorium on commercial whaling, a coalition of conservation and animal welfare organisations has joined forces to launch a global petition to end commercial whaling. Despite the global ban, the governments of three countries – Iceland, Japan and Norway – have sanctioned the […]