Investigations

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.

A new investigation has uncovered widespread illegal logging in the largest Indigenous Territory in the Brazilian Amazon and traced exports of illicitly produced rainforest timber to the shores of Europe and the United States.

A new investigative report from EIA documents a major illegal logging operation in Munduruku Indigenous Territory, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, and shows how illegal timber from the region is laundered into international supply chains.

In the first analysis of its kind since the COVID-19 pandemic, a new report uncovers how Vietnam continues to be exploited by international organized crime networks to smuggle illegal wildlife products between Africa and Asia.

Acting on EIA’s intelligence, Peruvian customs authorities stopped approximately 4 tons of Mexican mercury in June 2025, the largest seizure ever reported by an Amazonian country. This groundbreaking case sheds new light on the enforcement gaps and loopholes of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, raising urgent questions about its effectiveness to face the often highly covert and organized criminal groups that control mercury and gold trafficking.  

La última investigación de EIA revela la mayor operación de contrabando de mercurio jamás documentada. El informe expone cómo las minas de mercurio en México, algunas presuntamente controladas por el crimen organizado, están impulsando una cadena de suministro mortal que vincula la minería de oro, la devastación ambiental y las violaciones de derechos humanos.