Although India and Nepal have made huge strides in tiger conservation, poaching for the illegal trade continues to be a major ...

A new report to the 66th Standing Committee of CITES calling for an urgent crackdown on the illegal trade in endangered totoaba fish swim bladders which is driving the critically endangered vaquita ...

Read the EIA’s response to the UK Government’s legislation on forest risk commodities. In 2021, the UK Government passed the Environment Act, under which businesses will be required to establish and ...

The vaquita, a tiny porpoise species found only in the upper Gulf of California, Mexico, is the world’s most endangered marine mammal, with fewer than 10 individuals remaining. The vaquita is not ...

Fluorinated gases, or F-gases, are a range of greenhouse gases widely used in refrigeration and air-conditioning, most notably hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs). They are governed in the European Union by the ...

The global plastic waste trade is an environmental disaster hiding in plain sight, EIA’s latest report concludes. Undermined ...

Despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century, far beyond the universally recognised ...

The announcement by the National Medical Products Administration of China (NMPA) is an encouraging step towards ending the ...

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.

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 ...

EIA research reveals that at least 24 Chinese pharmaceutical companies have been listing leopard bones as an ingredient in their traditional medicines, although there are fewer than 450 wild leopards ...