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 […]
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has released a new report, Endangered Belugas and the Growing Threats of Climate Change, Arctic Shipping and Industrialization, which comprehensively documents the plight of the beluga whale, a species that was hunted to near extinction throughout its range. Today it continues to face a barrage of threats, including poorly-regulated subsistence […]
Held up as a beacon of hope by environmentalists and governments the world over, the Montreal Protocol has resulted in a 98 percent drop in the production and consumption of ozone depleting substancessuch as CFCs since 1987, corresponding to a reduction of over 10 billion tonnes of CO2-equivalent emissions per year. This immense achievement, which […]
Slayed in Iceland: The commercial hunting and international trade in endangered fin whales has been jointly released by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) on the eve of the 65th meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). Iceland’s fin whale hunt revolves around Kristján Loftsson, a […]
Today, HFCs are the most commonly used refrigerants in new refrigeration and air-conditioning systems in the United States and increasingly in developing countries, but these refrigerants are potent greenhouse gases (GHGs) with global warming potentials (GWPs) ranging from hundreds to thousands of times higher than CO2. HFCs have been commercialized to replace ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbon […]
Climate change is manifesting itself in ever more alarming ways. Devastating bush fires, historic droughts, and recurrent flooding are wreaking havoc on the lives and livelihoods of people around the world. The impacts are most severe in developing countries, where communities already on the brink face a crisis of existential proportions. 2014 is the year […]