Protecting the environment with intelligence
New Year Greetings one and all. Here we go again. But before we do, I want to say a big ‘Thank You’ to all of you – members, supporters, Facebook followers and Twitter fans – for taking an interest in EIA’s work and for lending your support wherever and whenever you can as EIA could [...]
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, [...]
Things are starting to slow down here at HQ, we’re down to just 6 people in the office! Looking back, 2010 has been a very eventful year. I have split this blog in two, firstly, I will review the year and highlight EIA’s achievements. Secondly, and you can find the second part here, we share [...]
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 [...]
On return from the International Tiger Forum, away from the celebrities, the press and the hype, Debbie Banks reflects on where the tiger is left after St Petersburg. “No matter how pragmatic your strategy, how robust your evidence or how loud you shout; at the end of the day when it comes to saving wild [...]
Asia House Save Wild Tigers Forum – Turning Words into Action In partnership with Born Free, Environmental Investigation Agency and WildAid. Tickets available. Throughout the Year of the Tiger there have been considerable international efforts to save this highly endangered species. As part of a global drive to highlight the tiger’s plight Asia House will [...]