Too few wildlife criminals end up in court

Despite several high-profile seizures in the past four years, there have been hardly any proper investigations into the international illegal wildlife trade and few prosecutions, our new report Off the Hook revealed. As of the end of January 2021, we had recorded almost 8,000 seizures of Asian big cats, elephants, pangolins and rhino – but while about 60 per cent involved the arrest of one or more suspects, we have not been able to identify any prosecutions for a large majority of the seizures.

Podcast: Myanmar military cashes in on timber

EIA has been working in Myanmar since it began to emerge from the shadow of brutal military dictatorship, exposing illegal timber trade and providing tools for reform of its natural resources sector, but all that changed with the coup on 1 February...