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.
EIA encourages China to remain steadfast in its approach to rhino horn trafficking, to enhance transparency of its wildlife crime enforcement, and to take a leadership role in the global effort to protect rhinoceroses by sharing its experiences and expertise with other countries affected by rhino poaching and illegal trade.
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, the EIA’s offices in the United States and United Kingdom uncover how Vietnam continues to be exploited by organized crime networks to smuggle illegal wildlife products between Africa and Asia. Vietnam may be the center of this web of international trafficking operations, but it cannot solve this problem alone.
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.
EIA’s groundbreaking investigation reveals the largest mercury smuggling operation ever documented. The report exposes how Mexican mercury mines, some allegedly taken over by organized crime, are driving a deadly supply chain that links gold mining, environmental devastation, and human rights abuses.