The Environmental Investigation Agency ( EIA ) is an international NGO founded in 1984 in the United Kingdom by environmental activists Dave Currey , Jennifer Lonsdale and Allan Thornton. At present, it has offices in London and Washington, D.C. The EIA covertly investigates and campaigns against environmental crime and abuse.
8-413: Its undercover investigations expose transnational wildlife crime , with a focus on elephants and tigers , and forest crimes such as illegal logging and deforestation for cash crops such as palm oil . It works to safeguard global marine ecosystems by addressing the threats posed by plastic pollution , by-catch and commercial exploitation of whales , dolphins and porpoises . It seeks to reduce
16-431: A company owned by directors of EIA. The series, based on EIA's undercover investigation work into the trade in endangered species, showed footage from EIA's undercover filming. The series had seven episodes, each covering a different group of animals like BEARS (01/06/1995), WHALES (25/05/1995), PARROTS (18/05/1995), WALRUS (11/05/1995), RHINOS (04/05/1995), TURTLES (30/03/1995) and MONKEYS (23/02/1995). The series won
24-538: The impact of climate change by campaigning to eliminate refrigerant greenhouse gases , exposing related illicit trade and improving energy efficiency in the cooling sector. The EIA uses its findings in reports to campaign for new legislation, improved governance and more effective enforcement. In addition, its field experience is used to provide guidance to enforcement agencies and it also forms partnerships with local groups and activists, support their work through hands-on training. The EIA's Climate work aims to tackle
32-848: The Media Natura award for best film, the Brigitte Bardot International Genesis Award (Los Angeles), and the Gold Plaque at the Chicago Documentary Film Festival. In 2007, The US Environmental Protection Agency called the EIA's "investigative work, scientific documentation, and representation at international conventions ...highly effective and successful". In 2008, BBC Wildlife Magazine called EIA "a highly-respected, hard-hitting, dirt-digging organization". Earth Touch called
40-600: The mid 1980’s and aims to reduce wildlife crime around the world, advocating the dismantling of transnational criminal networks involved in illegal trade, pressing for better legislation and the closure of key markets, advocating improved enforcement techniques and exposing transnational organized criminal networks. Key campaign areas include: As of 2020, EIA UK had 45 employees. EIA UK´s board of Trustees included James Arrandale, Pesh Framjee,Jennifer Lonsdale (founder), Alice Railton, John Stephenson (Chair), Kit Stoner, Paul Townley and Allan Thornton (founder). In 2013, Stichting EIA
48-453: The negative impacts of cash crops such as palm oil and exposing key criminal players in the transnational illegal trade in stolen timber . Key campaign areas include: The EIA's Ocean work aims to improve the status of marine wildlife and ecosystems by reducing threats posed by marine plastic pollution , bycatch and commercial exploitation of whales , dolphins and porpoises . Key campaign areas include: EIA's Wildlife work started in
56-424: The pressing threat of climate change by eliminating powerful greenhouse gases used widely in the cooling sector, improving energy efficiency of replacement technologies and investigating the illicit trade in refrigerant greenhouse gases. Key campaign areas include: The EIA's Forests work started in the late 1990´s and aims to reduce global deforestation by advocating improved governance and trade laws, revealing
64-597: Was incorporated in The Netherlands but remained dormant. In 2019 EIA UK decided as a consequence of Brexit , to develop Stichting EIA as an office in the Hague focusing on EU and Dutch environmental policy issues. In 1995, Independent Television Network ( ITV ) broadcast a TV series called The Animal Detectives in the UK. The series commissioned by Carlton Television was produced by Goldhawk together with Eco detectives,
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