New EIA analysis indicates the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region is resuming its long-held key role in trafficking ivory to meet demand in Asia. During the late 2000s and early 2010s, the region experienced a catastrophic elephant poaching crisis, leading to a significant decline in African savannah elephant populations. The 2016 African Elephant Status […]
Acting on intelligence provided by EIA, Zambian law enforcement agents raided a house in the capital Lusaka on 9 March and arrested nine Zambians, including an individual from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), allegedly involved in the illegal wildlife trade. Officers from the Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW) seized just under 550kg […]
Following eight years spent on the run, another key player in the notorious Shuidong ivory smuggling syndicate first exposed by EIA is finally to face justice. Zhanjiang Customs of China announced on 17 May that the individual – named only as Huang in the official statement– had been arrested and repatriated from Mozambique. EIA commends […]
The World Heritage Committee’s first in-person meeting since 2019 is prime opportunity for it to strengthen its commitments to protect some of the most precious environments on the planet
Zimbabwe’s ‘Elephant Summit’ last week failed in its attempt to secure a unified voice to demand a legal international trade in ivory be reopened
Zimbabwe has hosted what it called an ‘Elephant Summit’ for itself and several other African nations with the aim of restarting the legal international trade in ivory and selling off their stockpiled elephant tusks