Plastics are estimated to cause more than $1.5 trillion in global health-related economic losses each year and, taking the ...

EIA is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) with more than 40 years of experience investigating environmental crime and supporting effective policy development and implementation at the international ...

CITES CoP20 delivered positive outcomes for EIA’s focal species, which mostly involved preventing any backwards slide in the level of protection afforded by CITES.

All eight recognised species of pangolin face high risks of extinction, with the primary threats to their survival being poaching and trade of their meat, body parts and scales. In order to address ...

The European Commission has formally proposed simplifications to the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) and confirmed the law will still apply from January 2026. Although the EUDR now comes with new ...

Despite taking some commendable steps to tackle illegal wildlife trade, Vietnam remains a regional hub for criminal networks smuggling products such as ivory, pangolin scales and rhino horns from ...

Following the publication of our 2021 report Vietnam’s Footprint in Africa, which exposed the involvement of Vietnamese criminal networks in smuggling wildlife from Africa to Vietnam, EIA conducted ...

World leaders, negotiators, campaigners and corporate lobbyists assembled in Geneva’s Palais des Nations last month for what was intended to be the final, decisive round of talks to establish a ...

Fluorinated gases (F-gases) have, for many decades, been used as refrigerants and in other applications such as foam blowing and fire suppression. The first generation of F-gases were ozone-depleting ...

Stricter controls on imports of plastic waste into Malaysia come into effect from today (1 July), effectively putting the brakes on ‘waste colonialism’ exports from other countries. The new rules, a ...

For decades, cetacean entanglement and mortality in commercial and recreational fishing gear has been a major conservation challenge and welfare concern. EIA has identified 15 populations of cetaceans ...