DEALING
DRUG
TR
ADE
ARMS
LAUNDERING
MONEY
TRAFFICKING
HUMAN
DID YOU KNOW
that
DID YOU KNOW
that
WILDLIFE AND
FOREST CRIMES ARE THE
4
TH
LARGEST INTERNATIONAL
CRIMES
in the
WORLD
GROWING. AND IT’S
it THRIVES off areas of the world beset by
DRIVEN BY
ORGANISED CRIMINAL GANGS atrracted by
HIGH and a
LOW
PROFIT MARGINS
RISK OF DETECTION
THE TRADE IN COMMODITIES
IT’S WORTH AT LEAST
$17 BILLION A YEAR
SUCH
ELEPHANT
AS IVORY,
TIGER
(and BONES)
RARE HARDWOODS,
IS GROWING
AND
PUSHING
MANY ICONIC AND ECOLOGICALLY IMPORTANT SPECIES TO THE VERY
BRINK of EXTINCTION.
2011
WITNESSED THE LARGEST IVORY SEIZURES
SINCE RECORDS
BEGAN
with over representing
38 tonnes
SEIZED
AT LEAST
4000
THE NUMBER OF RHINOS
KILLED
FOR THEIR HORNS HAS INCREASED BY
5,000%
IN FIVE YEARS
OVER
2,800 TONNES of meat and blubber FROM ENDANGERED ICELANDIC FIN WHALES
HAS BEEN
SHIPPED TO JAPAN SINCE
2010
IS THE MAJOR THREAT TO THE REMAINING
3,500
WILD TIGERS
WITH OVER
160 KILLED
FOR THE TRADE IN SKINS,
BONES and other body parts since 2010
AND
WILDLIFE FOREST
CRIME
CAUSES CONFLICT BETWEEN
ethnic groups
AND
ABUSES
traditional land rights,
ROBBING VULNERABLE COMMUNITIES OF THEIR NATURAL RESOURCES
timber traded INTERNATIONALLY is ILLEGAL,
30 percent
OF ALL
CONTRIBUTING SIGNIFICANTLY TO GLOBAL DEFORESTATION
which is responsible for
20
% of greenhouse gas emissions
The profits made from WILDLIFE and FOREST CRIME
FUND INSURGENCES, DESTABILIZE GOVERNMENTS, and have even been LINKED TO
TERRORISM
1000
IN THE PAST DECADE OVER
PARK RANGERS HAVE
DIED
IN THE LINE OF DUTY
S R E H C A PO S R E G N A &R
D N U O R G E H T N O S E V I L R I E H T K S I R
EVERY DAY.
BUT THOSE WHO
PROFIT are criminal gangs
LEAD BY POWERFUL
KINGPINS
CONTROLLING THE TRADE THROUGH
VIOLENCE & CORRUPTION
IN ADDITION THE ILLICIT TRADE IN
OZONE DEPLETRING CHEMICALS CLIMATE CHANGING REFRIGERENT GASES DODGY CARBON CREDITS IS FUELING A POTENTIAL
L A T N E M N ENVIRO . E H P O R C ATA S T
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME IS
HIGHLY
LUCRATIVE
AS SPECIES
FACE AND HABITATS
COME UNDER THREAT
INCREASINGLY URGENT
SOLUTIONS
NEED TO BE FOUND.
EIA HAS BEEN FIGHTING ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME
THE INVESTIGATIVE PROCESS starts with
START
DESK-BASED
Charlotte Davies and Debbie Banks
RESEARCH
THE NEXT
Debbie Banks
STAGE IS ON-SITE
INVESTIGATION
OFTEN UNDER-COVER AND HAZARDOUS
THE FINDINGS FROM INVESTIGATIONS
ARE RELEASED AS REPORTS
and SHORT FILMS to raise awareness
AND ADVOCATE
CHANGE Paul Newman
EIA SUPPORTS
the efforts of enforcement agencies
in tackling
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME providing actionable intelligence and training.
WE ALSO EMPOWER LOCAL NGOs AND COMMUNITIES ON THE
FRONTLINE to campaign for themselves
Paul Redman
FOR SMALL CHARITY WE PACK A
BIG Janet Faraday
EIA
ACHIEVED NOTABLE RESULTS OVER THE YEARS
AND OUR EVIDENCE HAS HELPED TO:
PUBLICALLY EXPOSE THE ENORMOUS SCALE OF THE ILLEGAL IVORY TRADE
in the late 1980s
1980
LEADING TO A
WORLDWIDE BAN
on international ivory trading
IN 1989
COMBAT DEFORESTATION
ILLEGAL LOGGING PLANTATION
CONVERSION IN INDONESIA
CONTRIBUTING DIRECTLY TO HISTORIC LEGISLATION IN BOTH THE
EU & USA prohibiting the sale of products made from illegally cut timber.
market demand for REDUCE
WHALE by exposing
products in Japan
HIGH TOXIN
levels in the meat
AND PERSUADE MORE THAN 2,500 SUPERMARKETS
as well as online
retailers:
& TO STOP
SELLING WHALE AND DOLPHIN PRODUCTS
EXPOSE ILLEGAL TRADE
IN RHINO HORN LEADING TO THE LARGEST EVER
SEIZURE OF SMUGGLED RHINO HORN AND RESULTING IN A BAN ON RHINO HORN TRADE IN
CHINA& TAIWAN
CURB ILLEGAL TRADE IN CLIMATE AND
OZONE
DAMAGING CHEMICALS
RESULTING IN
ILLEGAL TRADE FALLING
ANIMALS
FROM AROUND 20,000 A YEAR
TO AROUND 4,000
EIA &
WPSI
WILDLIFE PROTECTION SOCIETY OF INDIA
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8000
4000
8000
of the illegal trade in
TIGER & LEOPARD across the Tibetan plateau LEOPARD
TIGER
TIBETAN PLATEAU
Following appeals from His Holiness
THE DALAI LAMA to stop wearing skins there has been
DRAMATIC REDUCTION
IN TIGER TRADE IN THE USE BY
TIBETANS
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