LONDON—A new EIA report reveals that Chinese-led criminal gangs are conspiring with corrupt Tanzanian officials to traffic huge amounts of ivory, a trade which has caused half of Tanzania’s elephants to be poached in the past five years—even diplomatic visits by high-level Chinese Government delegations have been used to smuggle ivory. In the major new […]
EIA’s latest report, The Vanishing Point: Criminality, Corruption and the Devastation of Tanzania’s Elephants, delves into how Tanzania’s elephants are once more being slaughtered in vast numbers to feed a resurgent ivory trade in China in an illegal trade driven by Chinese criminal syndicates and Tanzanian corruption. Vanishing Point reveals how some politicians from Tanzania’s […]
In the lead up to global climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), indigenous groups presented proposals for inclusive climate mitigation and adaptation. During a public forum in Lima on October 27th, representatives from AIDESEP, the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon, informed attendees about the demand […]
CCTV interviews EIA’s Director of Forest Campaigns, Kate Horner, in a discussion of the growing global crisis of illegal logging that threatens our world’s forests and the people who depend upon them. Ms. Horner discusses the international demand for wood products that drives illegal logging and the laws in place that prohibit this illicit […]
CCTV goes on the ground in Peru to reveal the illegal logging that devastates the Peruvian Amazon and puts indigenous people, who are dependent on the Amazon’s forests, in danger. With interviews and footage from the field, this feature follows the illegal routes of Peruvian timber, investigating concession inspections and the laundering of falsified documents. […]
By Natasha Hurley, EIA UK Climate Campaigner Following hot on the heels of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Summit in New York in September, a couple of events this week should put climate change back in the headlines. First up is the UN Climate Conference, a final preparatory meeting before the big annual climate talks in […]