STILL a critical threat to our future As an organisation that has spent more than four decades investigating and combating environmental crime and abuse across all three pillars of the triple planetary crisis — climate, biodiversity and pollution — the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is uniquely positioned to speak to both the scale of the […]
EIA comments on the CITES secretariat’s recommendation to delete decision 14.69
The illegal trade of pangolins in China All eight recognised species of pangolin face high risks of extinction, with the primary threats to their survival being poaching and trade of their meat, body parts and scales. In order to address declining pangolin populations, increasingly stringent measures for protection of the species have been adopted both through the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and at national levels.
Asian elephants face a 15% population decline and rising illegal trade. EIA urges CITES CoP20 to renew key Decisions and strengthen protections.
The NIAP process is vital to combat ivory trafficking. EIA urges SC79 to include UAE, monitor China, and escalate Angola and Mozambique to strengthen enforcement.
The 20th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP20) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) will take place from 23 November and 5 December in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. EIA will be actively engaging at CoP20 on a range of key issues relating to the protection of elephants, rhinos, Asian big cats, pangolins and vaquita porpoises, in addition to broader compliance and enforcement issues.