Why the delay in implementing UK Ivory Act?

It’s been a year since a legal challenge to the UK Ivory Act was rejected in the courts and we’re still waiting for the ban to be implemented. In that time, some 8,750kg of ivory – representing at least 875 to 1,325 individual elephants – has been seized worldwide, indicating that poaching and trafficking remains a real threat to elephant populations. EIA led a coalition of environmental groups to secure the Act and we’ve now called on the UK Government to implement the ban as a matter of urgency.

Tigers need more than pledges to save them

As Global Tiger Day saw the internet awash with messages and images celebrating tigers and lamenting the threats they face, we warned it would take more to save them than top-level pledges from governments which continue to allow their exploitation.