LONDON: China’s legal domestic market for pangolin medicine products is a key driver of the global illegal trade and poaching of pangolins, a new briefing from the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) demonstrates. A View from the Courts – The illegal trade of pangolins in China analyses 169 Chinese court judgments involving pangolins from 2014 […]
LONDON: Shops in Laos are openly selling illegal wildlife products containing rhino horn and bear bile in defiance of domestic laws and internationally agreed commitments, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has discovered. The products – on display in shop windows and, in some cases, advertised on massive posters on the sides of nearby buildings – make a mockery of the Laotian Government’s promises to implement edicts […]
ABUJA: The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has signed an historic agreement with Nigeria’s leading agency responsible for tackling corruption in the public sector, recognising the need for increased transparency and accountability to address environmental crime. On Friday 20 September, Dr Musa Aliyu, SAN, Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Crimes Commission […]
As UK political parties hit the campaign trail in earnest for the 4 July General Election, the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has released its own manifesto of key policy recommendations.
An investigation by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA UK) has found the body parts of threatened leopards and pangolins being used as ingredients in at least 88 traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) products.
Asian illegal wildlife trade kingpin Teo Boon Ching has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by a court in New York for large-scale trafficking of rhinoceros horns