THE HAGUE, DECEMBER 1, 2022 – Today, indigenous leaders of AIDESEP and FECONAU filed a complaint to the National Contact Point (NCP) of the OECD Guidelines in the Netherlands against Louis Dreyfus Company B.V., a major Dutch-based leader in trade of agricultural commodities. The case also has the support of a coalition of Peruvian and […]
Campaigners from EIA’s UK and US offices have returned from the 19th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties ( CoP19) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Panama – and declared it an overall win for wildlife. As well as CoP19, the summit from 14-25 November also featured the 75th and 76th […]
Ciudad de Panamá, Lima, 15 de noviembre de 2022 Los científicos peruanos llevan años advirtiendo sobre la necesidad de proteger los árboles de Shihuahuaco, especies que se encuentran en peligro en el país. Pero las preocupaciones de la industria maderera han hecho que el gobierno haya venido postergando la toma de acciones […]
Panama City, Lima, November 15th 2022 Peruvian scientists have been warning for years about the need to protect the country’s threatened Shihuahuaco trees. But the government is dragging its feet over concerns from the timber industry. There is a proposal to regulate trade in the precious tree species up for debate at […]
Washington, DC and Tokyo, Japan – Before the 19th meeting of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Nov 14-25, non-government organizations are appealing to Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida for Japan’s commitment to closing its ivory market to protect elephants from the threat of […]
In 2017, rhino poaching started to increase in Botswana as poachers began killing rhinos in the vast Okavango Delta region in the northwest of the country. EIA’s situational analysis highlights some of the key issues facing Botswana’s conservation sector and contains EIA’s recommendations for actions to be taken by Botswana and CITES CoP19. Read the […]