This study aims to model scenarios for how the global economy might respond to the proposed “40x40” target in the context of negotiations for a new International Legally Binding Instrument (ILBI) to ...

Read the EIA’s response to the UK Government’s legislation on forest risk commodities. In 2021, the UK Government passed the Environment Act, under which businesses will be required to establish and ...

The global plastic waste trade is an environmental disaster hiding in plain sight, EIA’s latest report concludes. Undermined ...

China, emergent superpower and the world’s second biggest economy, is effectively standing on the sidelines as its exponential growth devastates forests in a trade worth billions of dollars a year.

The announcement by the National Medical Products Administration of China (NMPA) is an encouraging step towards ending the ...

Deforestation in Asia through illegal logging and forest conversion to cash-crop plantations is a major crisis, overseen by large international companies or transnational criminal gangs. Working with ...

Saving pangolins has been at the core of our Wildlife programme for many years. These extraordinary creatures are the world’s most trafficked wild mammal. The pangolin is prized for its meat, which is ...

African elephants are at risk of extinction, primarily due to the poaching that feeds the ivory trade. The savannah elephants in East and Southern Africa, as well as the forest elephants of West and ...

‘Ghost gear’ is fishing gear which has been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded at sea and is widely regarded as one of the most harmful forms of plastic marine debris. Abandoned, lost and ...

Banks and governments must do much more to detect suspicious transactions linked to wildlife crime and use anti-money laundering laws to prosecute the culprits and seize the fruits of their crimes.

Until the mid-1950s, plastics were precious commodities that were used and treated carefully. But in just 65 years, plastic production has increased by 18,300 per cent – fuelling a relentless ...

Tiger farming is a major driver in stimulating consumer demand and perpetuating the illegal trade in tiger skins, teeth, bones, claws and meat from tigers and other Asian big cats. This is despite a ...