Protecting the environment with intelligence
My name’s Ben and I’m new here at the Environmental Investigation Agency. Already, I’m amazed and bemused in equal measure by the inner workings of this place. The office can go from a vibrant hive of activity, with the phone ringing off the hook, to a complete ghost town in the space of 24 hours, [...]
While the chances are that most of the UK will be enjoying a leisurely morning this Sunday, supporter Mark Fletcher will instead be pounding the streets of the capital to raise vital funds for EIA in the 2012 London Marathon. Mark has been in training for the past few months to get himself in shape [...]
Acknowledging the crisis is not enough to stem elephant slaughter LONDON: The new BBC documentary Ivory Wars: Out of Africa tonight detailed the ongoing tragedy of rampant elephant poaching and the international ivory trade, but something was absent from its broad overview. Leading experts featured in the Panorama special failed to confront the most [...]
Films featuring the work of the Environmental Investigation Agency have picked up top awards at the 35th International Wildlife Film Festival in the US. EIA is no stranger to event, held annually in Montana, after taking the award for Best News Programme two years ago with Eco Crime Investigators: Skin and Bones. This year, three [...]
A unique initiative to raise awareness about threatened Bengal tigers and the mangrove forests they inhabit has been touring villages in India’s Sundarban. In today’s guest blog, organisers Joydip and Suchandra Kundu talk about the attention-grabbing roadshow and the success it enjoyed earlier this month. The Society for Heritage and Ecological Researches (SHER), with support [...]
Yesterday afternoon, fellow campaigner Alasdair Cameron and I trooped down to the House of Lords (for the first time in our lives) for what turned out to be one of the most exciting and potentially productive tiger events we’ve been to in a long time. Our friends at TigerTime have been running a tireless campaign [...]