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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 implement a due diligence system to ensure …
Sounds green to me – 10 top environmental songs - EIA
May 18, 2012 · Few things can capture the mood of a moment (or movement) quite as well as a song – think of New Labour’s 1997 victory and it’s all but impossible to divorce it from D:Ream’s now horribly ironic Things Can Only Get Better.. True, most music has other interests in mind than championing causes, but in among the welter of self-obsessive navel-gazing, hedonism and despondent odes to lost ...
What is CITES? - EIA
Sep 28, 2022 · The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an international agreement to which governments voluntarily adhere and which seeks to ensure that the trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival.. The annual international trade in wildlife is estimated to be worth billions of dollars and ranges from live animals ...
Saving elephants from the ivory trade - EIA
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 Central Africa, are both at serious risk, with numbers in …
History - EIA
A year later, Currey and Lonsdale set out for the Faroe Islands on our first official investigation to observe the p ilot w hale hunt s, the find ings of which again made a major international impact. The three founders realised that on-the-ground documentary investigation was a powerful ne w tool for effective campaigning, something that would become a …
Saving pangolins from extinction - EIA
Pangolins are remarkable creatures. They’ve been called living pinecones, walking artichokes and tiny dinosaurs. Covered in large overlapping scales, they walk with an unusual and distinctive gait – putting most of their weight on their back legs, curling up their forepaws to protect their long claws and using their tail to help keep their balance.
How to end ocean plastic pollution - EIA
A toxic rising tide of plastic pollution. Plastic pollution can now be found everywhere, from the remote shores of the Arctic to the deepest parts of the ocean.Up to 12 million tonnes of plastic leak into the marine environment annually, harming biodiversity and posing a threat to food security, sustainability and human health.
Preventing the extinction of the vaquita - EIA
Our work to save the vaquita. As part of our Ocean campaign, EIA is fighting to save the vaquita from extinction.Our work to save the vaquita includes: drawing on the expertise and experience of our work with cetaceans (the collective term for whales, dolphins and porpoises);; carrying out undercover investigations into the illegal totoaba trade;
HFCs: The greenhouse gas the world is finally talking about
May 15, 2015 · These proposals target HFCs – a family of super greenhouse gases hundreds to thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO 2).HFCs are one of the six gases regulated under the Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Despite their ostensible regulation under the Kyoto Protocol, emissions of HFCs have been growing over the past two decades ...
Commercial whaling: Unsustainable, Inhumane, Unnecessary
An estimated 2.9 million whales were killed during the 20th century, leaving global whale populations decimated.The 1986 moratorium on commercial whaling enacted by the International Whaling Commission (IWC) saved several whale species from extinctio...