Protecting the environment with intelligence
We’re nearly one year on from the International Tiger Forum in St Petersburg, Russia, where just five leaders of Tiger Range Countries attended in a show of commitment to double the wild tiger population by 2022, the next Year of the Tiger. Can we really say we’ve seen any progress since then? I don’t mean, [...]
Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Geraldine Dammen and I am a vertically challenged, albeit driven, Indonesian girl who recently joined the EIA crew in September 2011. My first few weeks as a Fundraising Officer at EIA have gone by in a flash. With so much to do and an endless amount to [...]
Campaigners from the Environmental Investigation Agency will be at WildlifeXpo, a major new wildlife exhibition at London’s Alexandra Palace this Friday and Saturday. The event will bring together some of the leading lights in wildlife and conservation, and will provide a huge range of talks, lectures and other activities. Attending as a member of the [...]
Tickets are going fast for the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation’s special evening A World Without Tigers? The event on Friday, October 7 takes place from 6.15pm at the Royal Geographical Society in London, and you can still buy tickets priced £15 here. Speakers include zoologist, writer and TV presenter Mark Carwardine, Russian tiger project coordinator [...]
LONDON: Supporters in the US have a second chance to see three striking new documentaries following the work of EIA undercover investigators on the frontlines of environmental crime. The Crimes Against Nature films premiered in the USA on September 6 and will be repeated there on Saturday, September 24, 2011. The programmes were a year [...]
LONDON: The phase-out of hydrochlorofluoro- carbons (HCFCs) under the Montreal Protocol could be undermined by black market trade unless enforcement agencies are prepared, a new report warns. The report Risk Assessment of Illegal Trade in HCFCs, jointly produced by the London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), was released today on [...]