Tag: rhinos

The Washington DC-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is calling on the Government of South Africa to prosecute Sibusiso Eric Nzimande, Regional Court President of KwaZulu-Natal, for soliciting bribes and committing other acts of corruption that benefitted rhino poachers and the perpetrators of other violent crimes. EIA has submitted evidence of Mr. Nzimande’s corruption to the […]

WASHINGTON, DC — Environmentalists today questioned whether John Hume will sell rhino horn to the criminal syndicates that currently commission the poachers and smuggle wildlife products out of Africa. Hume recently told a reporter that he was “happy” to supply the criminal poaching networks driving the animals to extinction with a legal alternative. Allan Thornton, […]

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) applauds yesterday’s release of the Implementation Plan for the U.S. National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking by the Departments of the Interior, Justice, and State. The Implementation Plan comes exactly one year after President Obama issued the National Strategy in response to the ongoing global wildlife trafficking crisis, and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) announced they are petitioning the Obama Administration to impose trade sanctions against Mozambique in response to rampant poaching. Since 2010, Mozambican nationals have slaughtered up to 1,862 rhinos in South Africa, as well as thousands of elephants in Tanzania and […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the U.S. Administration announced its timely decision to enact a ban on the import and domestic commercial trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn as a major step to counter the mass slaughter of elephants across much of Africa. Up to 50,000 African elephants were killed in 2013 to feed demand […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) applauds Congressman Peter DeFazio, Ranking Member of the Committee on Natural Resources, for supporting a petition that urges the US government to address Vietnam’s failure to halt its role in the illegal rhino horn trade and to impose identified trade sanctions. The petition, submitted to the Department […]