BREAKING NEWS: In a victory for
#elephants
, the Court of Appeal today upheld the validity and legality of the UK Ivory Act which bans the sale and trade of most
#Ivory
. The act had been challenged by a small group of antique dealers.
#UKIvoryAct
#IvoryBan
🐘🐘🐘
'Investing in Extinction – How the global financial sector profits from traditional medicine firms using threatened species'
Major new EIA report released tomorrow (23 October)
#wildlife
#finance
#China
Wales bans single-use
#plastics
. The ban is intended to reduce plastic pollution in the
#environment
. The Welsh Government is committed to phasing out single-use plastics and has plans for further bans.
See our work on plastics:
#Kenya
: Drop in
#cheetah
population blamed on
#climate
, humans
- numbers of the big cats in the world-famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve dropped by 31 per cent over the past two years
#Africa
Asian big cats
@CITES
#CoP19
, several Parties including range States Bangladesh, India, Malaysia and Thailand expressed concern over lack of action to address demand and trade in tigers and other Asian big cats.
BREAKING!
#China
considering comprehensive ban on use and sale of
#tiger
and
#rhino
parts, potentially including captive-bred specimens. Public consultation underway.
This could be a major game-changer!
Efforts by
#Zimbabwe
to open trade in
#elephant
leather and ivory failed in a vote at
#CITESCoP19
today, with 85% of Parties opposing, demonstrating a strong opposition for around the globe to commercial elephant ivory trade.
China's tradition medicine industry is the key driver of poaching and illegal trade in
#pangolins
Today is
#WorldPangolinDay
- time for its Gov't to get serious by closing the domestic market and destroying all remaining pangolin scale stockpiles
BREAKING: We reveal the global investors in traditional medicines made with endangered wildlife
* New report out today - get the full story at
#illegalwildlifetrade
#China
#TCM
#Russia
: Siberian
#tigers
are being hunted at night for their body parts
- With just hundreds left in the wild, new research reveals how
#poachers
are killing them and shipping their bones to
#China
In the past year, up to 1,325 elephants were poached to provide the 8,750kg of
#ivory
which was seized worldwide ...
... a year in which the UK Ivory Act has been waiting for implementation
🐘
#Elephants
don't have time for our delays
@DefraGovUK
#Hawaii
: Autopsy reveals dead sperm whale's stomach contained six hagfish traps, seven types of fishing nets, two types of plastic bags, a light protector, fishing line and a float from a net
#whales
#plastic
#pollution
EIA names 12 major American
#timber
firms importing teak from
#Myanmar
since the start of the 2021 military coup
- trade in illicit timber supports the criminal, military junta and its cronies
#Burma
#teak
#yachting
Today, we launch our major new report. 'Checking out on plastics' – produced jointly with Greenpeace UK – is the most comprehensive survey to date on how supermarkets are addressing
#plastic
pollution.
Read our special summary and please share:
Final day @
#CITESCoP19
: Zimbabwe's proposal to commercially trade elephant leather goods takes a hiding! EU voted in favour of
#Zimbabwe
- the US and UK abstained despite recently prioritising
#elephant
protection. The proposal failed to gain a necessary 2/3 majority to succeed.
The US has announced it is giving the Chinese Gov't until 31 December to address its failure to halt the
#illegalwildlifetrade
threatening highly imperiled
#pangolins
or face possible economic sanctions ...
BREAKING NEWS: Malawi court sentences Chinese
#illegalwildlifetrade
kingpin Yunhua Lin to serve a total of 14 years in prison on
#rhino
trafficking and money laundering charges.
Full update from EIA shortly ...
Here's our Tiger and Wildlife Crime Campaign Leader Debbie Banks yesterday receiving the Dr Rimington Award from HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, for her work - all so very proud of her here at EIA HQ!
CITES
#SC77
- Finally,
#Laos
is now subject to trade sanctions following years of advocacy by EIA and others, reporting its serial non-compliance on a number of issues including tiger farming and trade
#illegalwildlifetrade
#tigers
India’s
#elephants
will suffer huge setback if proposed changes to Wildlife Protection Act are passed
- exception allowing private ownership of elephants has led to widespread abuse & harm. Legalising their trade will mark a dangerous regression
#India
Last photos of
#Kenya
's
#elephant
queen - "She had survived through periods of terrible poaching and it was a victory that her life was not ended prematurely by a snare, bullet or poisoned arrow"
Tiger breeding & exports flourish in
#SouthAfrica
-
@FourPawsUK
warns
#tigers
are bred alongside lions for hunting, zoos & trade in body parts ()
🐯
#YearoftheTiger
- China needs to get serious about protecting this iconic species
A 5-month-old
#leopard
cub was rescued from smugglers.
- According to a Wildlife SOS statement issued in Mumbai, the smugglers were apprehended in Jadhadia village in Bharuch district of Gujarat.
Stop investing in extinction!
New EIA report out today reveals the companies using endangered species in traditional Chinese medicines - and the big household names investing in them
Read it now at
#Climate
disasters ‘caused more internal displacement than war’ in 2020
- Refugee organisation says 30 million new displacements last year were due to floods, storms or wildfires
Vietnamese syndicates wiping out African megafauna, reach their tentacles into remotest corners of continent
"... EIA investigators are to be highly commended for their brilliant and brave work"
#illegalwildlifetrade
#Africa
#Asia
#poaching
Fresh bid to revive global
#ivory
trade with a ‘one-off’ sale is likely to drive elephant poaching surge
🐘"We simply cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past by restarting ivory trade"
#elephants
#Africa
#illegalwildlifetrade
#Japan
joins anti-plastic coalition ahead of Paris treaty talks, leaving US isolated
- EIA's Chris Dixon said it was a “significant position shift”
#plastic
#pollution
US timber importers use ‘stockpile narrative’ ruse to defy the law and import teak from Myanmar, claiming it was bought and paid for before sanctions were imposed
👉 Read the new EIA report at
#illegallogging
#China
wildlife crime prosecutions up sharply after
#COVID19
outbreak
... more than 15,000 prosecuted for wildlife-related crimes in first nine months of the year, up 66% from 2019
EIA campaigners are in Brazil for
#IWC67
to defend the global ban on commercial whaling & promote strong conservation measures 🐳 Read our new report on why commercial whaling is unsustainable, uneconomic & unnecessary here
#Vietnam
: Trio caught smuggling seven frozen tiger cubs were today jailed, six years for the boss and five each for his accomplices, according to our friends at Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV)
#tigers
#illegalwildlifetrade
Everything you ever wanted to know about ... illegal pangolin trade
Find out more about the world's most trafficked animal, where they're found, why they're poached and what EIA is doing about it
Get the facts at
#illegalwildlifetrade
#pangolins
Some good news! Rhino & elephant populations are rising in Uganda's reserves, reversing years of decline due to poachers, traffickers and conflict.
#rhino
#poaching