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Environmental Crime - a threat to our future
Organised environmental crime poses a growing threat, yet remains a low priority for the enforecement community. This report shows the scale and impacts of environmental crime and calls for strong political will to tackle it as a matter of urgency.
Last Updated: 10 Oct 08

Skin Deep
The need for effective enforcement to combat the Asian Big Cat skin trade. This briefing describes undercover work in China in June 2008 when EIA found 14 shops offering Asian big cat skins for sale, including 9 whole snow leopard skins, 13 whole leopard skins, 5 pieces of leopard skin trim, and a whole tiger skin. The briefing calls on China to tighten up enforcement against illegal big cat skin sales.
Last Updated: 11 Jul 08

Tiger Bone Wine
Report revealing how animal parks in China are selling illegal tiger bone wine.
Last Updated: 9 Jun 08

Environmental Crime – Our Planet, Our Problem
Briefing to the 17th meeting of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Last Updated: 24 Apr 08

EIA WPSI Briefing: Use and Availability of Asian Big Cat Skins, 2007
This briefing provides an update following a recent visit to the Litang Horse Festival in Sichuan, in August 2007. Not a single person was seen wearing genuine tiger, leopard and otter skin this year. The staggering contrast to the scenes of 2005 is largely due to localised and targeted awareness campaigns.
Last Updated: 3 Sep 07

Briefing to the 14th Meeting of the Conference of Parties to CITES: Asian Big Cats
Update on illegal trade in Asian big cat skins in China following EIA & WPSI investigations in February 2007. Recommendations for action by the Parties to CITES.
Last Updated: 11 Jul 07

India's Intervention at CITES CoP14 on Asian Big Cats
Last Updated: 11 Jul 07

Upholding The Law - the Challenge of Effective Enforcement
ENVIRONMENT and wildlife crimes - such as illegal logging, ivory poaching and trading in tiger parts and rare animals - are now so rife they should be treated as serious transnational organised crime, says EIA.
Last Updated: 7 Jun 07

Report: Skinning the Cat - Crime and Politics of the Big Cat Skin Trade
The illegal trade in poached skins between India, Nepal and China is the most significant immediate threat to the continued existence of the tiger in the wild. While the importance of the problem has been recognised and plenty of information is already available, the lucrative illegal trade continues.
Last Updated: 27 Sep 06

Report: The Tiger Skin Trail
This report, released at the 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties of CITES in Thailand, reveals startling new evidence of the illegal trade in tiger skins. It draws together information from India, Nepal and China as the source, transit and destination countries, highlighting the urgent need for governments to improve wildlife crime investigation.
Last Updated: 4 Oct 04

Sahara and the Sundarbans - Ecotourism or Megatourism?
Read about why EIA is opposed to plans to develop an 'ecotourism' project in the Sundarbans
Last Updated: 17 Mar 04

UK Cosmetics Industry Risks Tiger Forests
Major UK/ Dutch cosmetics multinational, Unilever, has been exposed by The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Friends of the Earth in an article in the Observer newspaper today for sourcing talc illegally quarried by an Indian mining company. The mining company has also listed US multinationals, Johnson & Johnson, Revlon and Avon among its clients. The quarrying not only destroys tiger habitats but also devastates the forest and watersheds vital for the well being of local people.
Last Updated: 22 Jun 03

Report: Undermined - Destruction of Tiger Habitat in India
Thus report highlights the devastation of vital tiger habitat by mining companies for luxury items consumed in India and abroad.
Last Updated: 31 Mar 03

Thailand Sends 100 Tigers to China
A briefing regarding the 100 tigers that Sri Racha Tiger Zoo in Thailand exported to China.
Last Updated: 5 Mar 03

Tiger Briefing for the 12th Conference of the Parties to CITES
Conservation of and Trade in Tigers: CoP 12 Doc. 33 and Annex 1; Conservation of the Leopard, Snow Leopard and Clouded Leopard: CoP 12 Doc. 32 and Conservation of and Trade in Rhinoceroses: CoP 12 Doc. 35
Last Updated: 1 Nov 02

Species Issues for the EU Commission Meeting on CITES CoP12
Briefing Prepared for the EU Commission Meeting to discuss Proposals put forward for CoP12
Last Updated: 20 Jul 02

Report: Thailand's Tiger Economy
Thailand has shown itself to be woefully inadequate in implementing domestic legislation to stamp out the tiger trade and in enforcing international agreements to which it is a signatory.
Last Updated: 1 Jun 01

CITES and Tigers
Last Updated: 10 Apr 00

The Khaga Cat Skin Seizure
The largest ever seizure of big cat skins in India and implications for the fight against organised wildlife crime.
Last Updated: 22 Mar 00

Report: The State of the Tiger
This report focuses on Madya Pradesh, the self-proclaimed Tiger State, as an example of the problems facting tigers nationwide.
Last Updated: 1 Mar 99

Report: The Political Wilderness - India's Tiger Crisis
Three sub-species of tigers have become extinct this century - without a whisper - and only five remain. As India is home to two thirds of the world population of tigers, this report stands as a plea to act to reverse the rapid loss of India's wildlife and forests.
Last Updated: 22 Oct 96