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BREAKING NEWS: In a victory for
#elephants
, the Court of Appeal today upheld the validity and legality of the UK Ivory Act which bans the sale and trade of most
#Ivory
. The act had been challenged by a small group of antique dealers.
#UKIvoryAct
#IvoryBan
🐘🐘🐘
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Restoring Arabian
#leopard
will ‘profoundly benefit’ ecosystems, UN says
- fewer than 200 individuals survive in the wild
#illegalwildlifetrade
#habitat
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Wales bans single-use
#plastics
. The ban is intended to reduce plastic pollution in the
#environment
. The Welsh Government is committed to phasing out single-use plastics and has plans for further bans.
See our work on plastics:
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BREAKING!
#Malawi
: Wildlife crime syndicate members jailed for total of 56.5 years – kingpin due up later
#elephants
#ivory
#pangolins
#rhinos
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Great news for
#elephants
- mechanism for future trade in
#ivory
overwhelmingly rejected!
@CITES
#CoP17
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Efforts by
#Zimbabwe
to open trade in
#elephant
leather and ivory failed in a vote at
#CITESCoP19
today, with 85% of Parties opposing, demonstrating a strong opposition for around the globe to commercial elephant ivory trade.
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A major
#tiger
#poaching
network that spread from west to east
#India
has been busted
#illegalwildlifetrade
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#SouthAfrica
: High court stops crossbreeding of wildlife such as
#rhinos
,
#lions
and
#giraffes
to obtain specific characteristics for agricultural purposes
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China's tradition medicine industry is the key driver of poaching and illegal trade in
#pangolins
Today is
#WorldPangolinDay
- time for its Gov't to get serious by closing the domestic market and destroying all remaining pangolin scale stockpiles
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BREAKING!
Supreme Court quashes the
#antiques
trade’s final bid to kill off the UK
#Ivory
Act!
#elephants
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BREAKING: Traders defy the law to import more
#teak
into the USA from
#Myanmar
than before the coup
#illegallogging
#timber
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BREAKING: We reveal the global investors in traditional medicines made with endangered wildlife
* New report out today - get the full story at
#illegalwildlifetrade
#China
#TCM
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Great news! Largest
#lion
bone carrier,
@SingaporeAir
, stops cargo from
#SouthAfrica
, will no longer support bone trade from captive-bred big cats
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In the past year, up to 1,325 elephants were poached to provide the 8,750kg of
#ivory
which was seized worldwide ...
... a year in which the UK Ivory Act has been waiting for implementation
🐘
#Elephants
don't have time for our delays
@DefraGovUK
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#Hawaii
: Autopsy reveals dead sperm whale's stomach contained six hagfish traps, seven types of fishing nets, two types of plastic bags, a light protector, fishing line and a float from a net
#whales
#plastic
#pollution
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BREAKING:
#Indonesia
national park with largest
#orangutan
population being cleared for
#palmoil
& illegally logged
#forests
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Namibia’s wild
#elephants
are being rounded up for international sale
- The Government hasn’t said where the elephants will go
#Namibia
#Africa
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Today, we launch our major new report. 'Checking out on plastics' – produced jointly with Greenpeace UK – is the most comprehensive survey to date on how supermarkets are addressing
#plastic
pollution.
Read our special summary and please share:
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Thousands of small
#whales
and
#dolphins
slaughtered in
#Greenland
’s poorly regulated hunts
🐬 New blog from our
#Ocean
team - read it at
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Final day @
#CITESCoP19
: Zimbabwe's proposal to commercially trade elephant leather goods takes a hiding! EU voted in favour of
#Zimbabwe
- the US and UK abstained despite recently prioritising
#elephant
protection. The proposal failed to gain a necessary 2/3 majority to succeed.
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#Tiger
protection in
#India
also saved one million tonnes of carbon emissions – new study
#forests
#climatechange
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The US has announced it is giving the Chinese Gov't until 31 December to address its failure to halt the
#illegalwildlifetrade
threatening highly imperiled
#pangolins
or face possible economic sanctions ...
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BREAKING NEWS: Malawi court sentences Chinese
#illegalwildlifetrade
kingpin Yunhua Lin to serve a total of 14 years in prison on
#rhino
trafficking and money laundering charges.
Full update from EIA shortly ...
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Here's our Tiger and Wildlife Crime Campaign Leader Debbie Banks yesterday receiving the Dr Rimington Award from HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, for her work - all so very proud of her here at EIA HQ!
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Great work
@WildAid
!
#Shark
Fin Demand in
#China
Down by 50-70%, Report Finds
http://t.co/r4jvzaqUcP
http://t.co/oX0r9Ae55w
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CITES
#SC77
- Finally,
#Laos
is now subject to trade sanctions following years of advocacy by EIA and others, reporting its serial non-compliance on a number of issues including tiger farming and trade
#illegalwildlifetrade
#tigers
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BREAKING: New EIA investigation exposes the Chinese Government’s
#pangolin
trade deception
#China
#Africa
#pangolins
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BREAKING: New EIA study reveals a 10 billion tonne
#plastic
#pollution
bomb ticking away in every corner of the planet
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India’s
#elephants
will suffer huge setback if proposed changes to Wildlife Protection Act are passed
- exception allowing private ownership of elephants has led to widespread abuse & harm. Legalising their trade will mark a dangerous regression
#India
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Tiger breeding & exports flourish in
#SouthAfrica
-
@FourPawsUK
warns
#tigers
are bred alongside lions for hunting, zoos & trade in body parts ()
🐯
#YearoftheTiger
- China needs to get serious about protecting this iconic species
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FILM: In conversation - Neil Gaiman on the natural world
http://t.co/b3cMeKCuYM
@neilhimself
@savetherhino
http://t.co/xZwcrmH1n2
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Major
@CITES
meeting has a golden opportunity to turn the tide against
#rhino
poachers and traffickers
🦏 Read our special
#WorldRhinoDay
blog now at
#Africa
#illegalwildlifetrade
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Stop investing in extinction!
New EIA report out today reveals the companies using endangered species in traditional Chinese medicines - and the big household names investing in them
Read it now at
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#China
’s
#ivory
ban gains public support as country looks to stamp out domestic trade by the end of the year
#elephants
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FILM: Highlights of the Douglas Adams Memorial Lecture by
@neilhimself
http://t.co/g3oJ9SLdY2
@savetherhino
http://t.co/4UWBQBDmCC
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Vietnamese syndicates wiping out African megafauna, reach their tentacles into remotest corners of continent
"... EIA investigators are to be highly commended for their brilliant and brave work"
#illegalwildlifetrade
#Africa
#Asia
#poaching
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Fresh bid to revive global
#ivory
trade with a ‘one-off’ sale is likely to drive elephant poaching surge
🐘"We simply cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past by restarting ivory trade"
#elephants
#Africa
#illegalwildlifetrade
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#Japan
joins anti-plastic coalition ahead of Paris treaty talks, leaving US isolated
- EIA's Chris Dixon said it was a “significant position shift”
#plastic
#pollution
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EIA joins call for governments to adopt a 50-Year Vision for the
@iwc_int
to save
#whales
and
#dolphins
from
#extinction
🐳
#plastics
#climatechange
#hunting
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US timber importers use ‘stockpile narrative’ ruse to defy the law and import teak from Myanmar, claiming it was bought and paid for before sanctions were imposed
👉 Read the new EIA report at
#illegallogging
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BREAKING:
@WHO
urged to condemn traditional Chinese medicine utilising wild animal parts
@PantheraCats
@trust_wildlife
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#Kenya
has lost over 100
#rhinos
in three years
http://t.co/MvNGaC0TxC
#Africa
http://t.co/ip4N3TV1Uk
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BREAKING: Chinese crime syndicates & corruption behind
#Tanzania
’s
#elephant
meltdown
http://t.co/fHkrpGt99V
#China
http://t.co/eKJWE8GPPO
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#Vietnam
: Trio caught smuggling seven frozen tiger cubs were today jailed, six years for the boss and five each for his accomplices, according to our friends at Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV)
#tigers
#illegalwildlifetrade
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TODAY at
#CITESCoP19
- 12:15 - Room Istmo 2: a lunchtime side-event on “Asian Big Cats: Trade and Enforcement, Actions and Solutions” with
@EIA_News
@TRAFFIC_WLTrade
@WJCommission
@wwf
: Lunch provided!
#tigers
#Panama
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A Christmas gift from the
#EU
to
#elephants
– new
#ivory
trade restrictions announced today!
🐘
#illegalwildlifetrade
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International crime ring that trafficked in
#shark
#fins
is dismantled, US says
#illegalwildlifetrade
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Everything you ever wanted to know about ... illegal pangolin trade
Find out more about the world's most trafficked animal, where they're found, why they're poached and what EIA is doing about it
Get the facts at
#illegalwildlifetrade
#pangolins
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#Coral
Reefs, ep3 of
#BluePlanet
II, starts on BBC1 in 15 minutes (8pm GMT). EIA's
#Oceans
Campaign info at
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Today is International Clouded
#Leopard
Day
This beauiful, elusive species remains vulnerable due to
#habitat
loss and
#poaching
for its fur and body parts for use in traditional medicines.
Find out more at
#CloudedLeopardDay
#illegalwildlifetrade
#TCM
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#Nigeria
considers stringent legislation to protect endangered species
-
@EIA_News
,
@ANI_Foundation
&
@WildAfricaFund
actively supporting the Nigerian Government’s efforts to fight
#illegalwildlifetrade
#Africa
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#SouthAfrica
begins public consultation of proposed legal ban on intensive breeding of
#lions
and
#rhinos
— and ending captive lion
#hunting
#illegalwildlifetrade
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#India
: Pregnant tigress brutally killed in Maharashtra
- poachers had chopped off both her front paws to extract the claws
#tigers
#poaching
#illegalwildlifetrade
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#Fracking
caused daily earthquakes at UK’s only active site
-
#Lancashire
site responsible for 192
#earthquakes
over course of 182 days in 2018-19, Lib Dem analysis has found
#climatechange
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