LONDON — As Japan’s annual coastal whale and dolphin hunting season began today with the aim of killing more than 15,000 marine mammals, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) released new evidence that the Government of Japan continues to recklessly expose its citizens to heavily polluted whale and dolphin products. The new EIA report Dangerous Diet outlines […]
To read this release in French, click here. MADAGASCAR — Armand Marozafy, an environmental activist and the Chairman of the Steering and Supporting Committee of the Protected Areas in the Masoala region, was thrown into jail on April 27, 2015, and on August 26, was rejected parole by the court of Toamasina. While Armand Marozafy […]
By Dan Hubbell, EIA Assistant Policy Analyst As the final stop on his summer tour on climate change, President Obama is in Alaska today. In addition to making history as the first sitting President to visit the American Arctic, this visit is not merely symbolic. More than four hundred dignitaries from all eight Arctic nations […]
ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—A coalition of animal welfare and conservation organizations launched a two-week advertising campaign today on Alaska Dispatch News to coincide with the Conference on Global Leadership in the Arctic: Cooperation, Innovation, Engagement and Resilience (GLACIER). The State Department–sponsored conference in Anchorage will highlight domestic and international priorities in the Arctic. The conference brings together […]
On August 6, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced its first Lacey Act prosecution involving illegal logging in the United States. This is good news and sends a powerful message to the timber industry at home and abroad: The cost of breaking the law outweighs the potential short term gains from illegal logging. The […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Colombian environmental and land activist William Aljure was threatened by paramilitary leaders and followed by two unidentified men in Villavicencio, Colombia in the region of Meta. According to Comisión Intereclesial de Justicia y Paz, a Colombian human rights organization, local paramilitary leader Edgar Pérez (whose alias is “Tomate”) described Mr. […]