There are around 5,000 tigers left in the world and India is home to 60% of this remaining population - but it is estimated that one is killed there every day. Since 1996, EIA has been campaigning to force the Indian government to crack down on poaching, trade and habitat destruction. EIA has conducted undercover investigations in consumer countries across Asia, Europe and the USA, to expose the thriving, international illegal trade in tiger products.
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EIA investigations along with the work of conservationists worldwide paved the way for the 1989 ban on the international trade in ivory and halted the sharp decline of elephant populations from poaching. EIA is concerned that a one-off legal sale from three Southern African countries to Japan in 1999, and a further sale agreed for 2004, has stimulated a renewed demand for ivory in consuming nations, once more posing a threat to the world's elephants.
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EIA leads international efforts to protect the world's 83 species of whales, dolphins and porpoises that remain unprotected by international law. These forgotten whales face an uncertain future and a host of environmental threats such as pollution, ozone depletion and climate change. EIA has exposed the biggest cetacean kill in the world - the Dall's porpoise hunt in Japan where up to 18,000 Dall's porpoises are slaughtered every year. EIA will continue to fight for increased protection of this gentle, intelligent creature and other forgotten whales.
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Once found across much of south east Asia, centuries of hunting and destruction of the forests upon which the orangutan depends has reduced their range to just two islands - Sumatra and Borneo. Closely related to our Forests for the World campaign, EIA launched its orangutan campaign in 1997 when forest fires engulfed an area the size of Wales in Indonesia. In the past ten years, the orangutan population has declined by as much as 50%, mostly as a result of profiting from the illegal logging and destruction of the orangutan's protected National Parks.
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