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.
In 2015, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Grassroots released the report Who Watches the Watchmen? on the implementation of the certification systems of the Roundtable on Sustainable ...
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 ...
Wildlife and forest crimes are inextricably linked. Illegal wildlife and timber move through the same geographical hotspots. Traffickers use the same trading and shipping methods. The same ...
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 ...
Despite a brief dip in carbon dioxide emissions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the world is still heading for a temperature rise in excess of 3°C this century, far beyond the universally recognised ...