What on Earth?
We investigate and campaign against environmental crime and abuse.
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How crimes affecting the environment are an increasingly interconnected threat (opens the original)
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Environmental crime is often regarded as a series of disparate issues, from wildlife trafficking and illegal logging to waste dumping and illegal fishing. But according to EIA's latest major report, Crimes that Affect the Environment – STILL a Critical Threat to Our Future, these crimes are increasingly connected, driven by organised criminal networks and fuelling the climate, biodiversity and pollution crises. And nearly 20 years after EIA first highlighted the threat, many of the same weakness
Are supermarkets selling us short over plastic packaging for loose produce? (opens the original)
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The leading UK supermarkets have made limited progress in reducing plastic packaging for fresh fruit and vegetables, despite signing up to the UK Plastics Pact’s voluntary commitment to sell at least 30 per cent of uncut fresh produce loose by 2025. But the new EIA report UK Supermarket Sale of Loose Unpackaged Produce – Trends, barriers and opportunities reveals that transparency about loose produce sales has actually worsened since our last comparable dataset in 2021. In this episode, EIA Ocea
Vietnam's ongoing battle to keep illegal timber out of its supply chains (opens the original)
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Vietnam has made laudable progress in recent years to shut illicit timber out of its supply chains and so keep access to the lucrative export markets on which its huge furniture industry relies. But new investigations by EIA’s Forests team have revealed that those efforts are in danger of being undermined by high-risk timber entering from neighbouring Cambodia and Laos, with the true nature of these imports hidden behind sophisticated fake paperwork scams. In this episode, Thomas Chung, EIA Fore
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