An international meeting has given the green light for commercial farming and trade in captive-bred totoaba fish – and in doing so may have condemned the last few remaining vaquita porpoises to extinction
EIA campaigners will be at the 74th meeting of the CITES Standing Committee to push for a range of outcomes needed to protect endangered species from the ravages of burgeoning illegal trade perpetuated by wildlife crime syndicates
One of the biggest events on the international conservation calendar gets under way this week and our campaigners will be there to press for robust action to safeguard threatened species from illegal trade. The 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP18) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) and meetings […]
We have been documenting the annual Dall’s porpoise hunts for some 20 years, to raise awareness of the hunts themselves and their negative impact on marine conservation, taking our findings to meetings of the International Whaling Commission leading to several resolutions being adopted calling on Japan to stop the hunt
At the forefront of calls for transnational wildlife and forest crime to be properly recognised and tackled, our campaigners are attending to push for positive outcomes on a number of important campaign issues and to get the results of our investigations and analysis into the right hands to drive meaningful change
The presidents of Mexico and China, Enrique Peña Nieto and Xi Jinping, reiterated their commitment and support to international efforts to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise