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In celebration of the Year of the Tiger, EIA have teamed up with Born Free & WildAid, for what promises to be the fundraising event of the year, at the Mandarin Oriental on 3 March. Celebrity guests confirmed include Ronni Ancona and Alastair McGowan, Virginia McKenna, Joanna Lumley, Bill Oddie, Liz Bonnin, Ching he [...]
London, UK: The Chairman of the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is to receive an OBE in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace today at 10am. The Officer of the Order of the British Empire is being awarded Allan Thornton in recognition of his outstanding work to protect the environment. Canadian-born Thornton is a co-founder of EIA, [...]
I’ve been reading about a pangolin trafficking operation, described in a recent report by TRAFFIC Southeast Asia1. Sabah Wildlife Department’s raid on a warehouse used by a pangolin trafficking syndicate recovered several logbooks used by the dealers. These books revealed that the criminals meticulously recorded their trafficking activities – being the details of approximately 22,200 [...]