Environmental Investigation Agency

The plastic pollution crisis in UK farming

The use of plastics in agriculture (commonly called ‘agriplastics’) may account for just 3.5 per cent of annual global plastic usage, but the pollution caused is devastating and extends far beyond farms. In a new series of reports, EIA takes a step back to outline what agriplastics are and who is responsible for finding solutions to tackle the environmental and human health harm they cause – and finds that little is being done by the UK’s major supermarkets and the Government to address the issue..

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CITES gets tough with Mexico over porpoises

With fewer than 10 vaquita porpoises remaining in the world, CITES has finally gotten tough with Mexico to compel it to protect the critically endangered creatures, suspending all commercial trade in specimens of CITES-listed species with the country.

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Dire climate warning

A new UN report has made plain the urgent need to address the escalating climate crisis. Our campaigners unpack its key findings, from the main causes and likely impacts to the irreversible harm that will occur if warming passes 1.5°C, even briefly.

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A win for dolphins!

Thousands of common dolphins in the Bay of Biscay will be saved from entanglement and death in fishing gear after a French court ruled that current measures in place to prevent this were inadequate and ordered the establishment of no-fishing zones.

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Win children’s books!

We are delighted to offer you the opportunity to win one of five pairs of children’s conservation books (worth £29.98), Fourteen Wolves and The Tigers Tale, A Conservation Story, by Catherine Barr. Our very own Tiger Campaign lead, Debbie Banks, supported Catherine in sharing EIAs expertise on the threat to tigers from trade in their body parts and from tiger 'farming'.

To win, please email our fundraising team. Prizes will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

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