EIA’s Tiger Campaign works for the recovery of wild tiger populations by advocating the dismantling of transnational criminal networks involved in illegal trade, pressing for better legislation and ...
Banks and governments must do much more to detect suspicious transactions linked to wildlife crime and use anti-money laundering laws to prosecute the culprits and seize the fruits of their crimes.
African elephants are at risk of extinction, primarily due to the poaching that feeds the ivory trade. The savannah elephants in East and Southern Africa, as well as the forest elephants of West and ...
A report showing the scale and impacts of environmental crime and calling for strong political will to tackle it as a matter of urgency. Environmental crimes broadly include: illegal trade in wildlife ...
In 2018, EIA launched our Pangolin Project to protect pangolins from illegal trade in their parts and derivatives which has proven detrimental to their survival. We review key legislation to identify ...
China, emergent superpower and the world’s second biggest economy, is effectively standing on the sidelines as its exponential growth devastates forests in a trade worth billions of dollars a year.
For anyone interested in discovering detailed, credible and verified information about different types of international environmental crime. There was no central public database that provides analysis ...
Tiger farming is a major driver in stimulating consumer demand and perpetuating the illegal trade in tiger skins, teeth, bones, claws and meat from tigers and other Asian big cats. This is despite a ...
Only about 4,500 wild tigers survive worldwide, largely due to persistent poaching for their body parts to feed demand in China and South-East Asia. Meanwhile, more than 8,900 tigers are kept in ...
A briefing for the 66th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee, January 2016. Hongmu is the Chinese term for high-end reproduction furniture made from richly hued durable tropical hardwoods, a sector ...