The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) is an NGO founded in 1984 by Dave Currey, Jennifer Lonsdale and Allan Thornton, three environmental activists in the United Kingdom. Its stated goal is to investigate and expose crimes against wildlife and the environment. Full-time EIA investigators work undercover gathering film, photos and information from around the world. The evidence they collect is presented to the media, government and policy makers in order to inform and persuade that action must be taken in order to protect the planet's most precious species, habitats and vital ecosystems.
EIA also campaigns to prevent environmental crime. Currently EIA is working to:
- Prevent the illegal trade of ozone depleting substances,
- Reduce and phase out the use of certain climate change gases and various other harmful chemicals (HFCs/F-gases etc.).
- Stop the destruction of rainforests by illegal logging.
- Shut down the market for illegally traded ivory.
- Maintain the ban on commercial whale hunting.
- Halt to the illegal trade in Asian big cats for skins, bones and items such as tiger bone wine.
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