Rhino breeders in South Africa are attempting to bend international wildlife trade regulations to their will and undermine decades of South African law to circumvent the ban on international rhino horn trade.
The seventh issue of the EIA Illegal Trade Bulletin highlights two U.S. enforcement cases, and a new investigative report on illegal refrigerant trade in the European Union.
Yuvelis Morales, a community organizer from the heart of Colombia's oil lands, has been awarded the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize for her years of work exposing pollution linked to Ecopetrol, Colombia’s state-owned oil company. Communities in the Middle Magdalena region have been raising the alarm about pollution linked to Colombia's oil industry for years. A new round of monitoring in 2026 confirms that little has changed.
EIA is deeply disappointed that South Africa’s new Biodiversity Management Plan to guide the country’s rhino conservation efforts retains dangerous actions to bring about domestic and international commercial trade in rhino horn.
As organizações não governamentais abaixo assinadas instam com veemência a Comissão a não excluir o couro do escopo de aplicação do Regulamento da UE sobre o Desmatamento (EUDR).
Non-governmental organizations urge the European Commission to ensure the integrity of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) by maintaining leather within the scope of Annex I.