Protecting the environment with intelligence
This baking challenge aims to bake the perfect crime-cake. Please don’t be put off by the appearance of this crime-cake; I’ll admit it looks a bit unconventional, as it comes in the shape of a triangle. But never mind, that doesn’t mean it’s less tempting than a regular cake (in fact, to those who [...]
A briefing on the two parallel markets for Asian Big Cat products, one from captive-bred animals and one from wild animals.
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 [...]
Autumn proper is finally here (recent mini heatwave notwithstanding) and the nights are drawing in – which means it’s once again possible to curl up in front of a movie without the guilty sting of having to draw the curtains against the sunshine. With that in mind, I thought this week I’d pass along a [...]
A key segment of the new Nat Geo Wild documentary Blood Ivory – which will be screened again in the US tomorrow (September 24) – was shot in Kenya. The aim was to document what was happening on the ground – there have been so many reports of poaching and seized ivory, in and through [...]