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EIA’s Forests team has been working on the ground in Myanmar since the country began to emerge from under the shadow of brutal military dictatorship in 2011, exposing illegal timber trade and helping to provide the tools for meaningful reform of its natural resources sector.

EIA has a deserved global reputation for our undercover investigations into environmental crime but less well known is the painstaking work done behind the scenes by our Intelligence Team.

The findings of our recent survey of UK supermarkets use of single-use plastics, what’s been achieve and what more needs to be done.

James Toone, a Senior Campaigner who works across our Wildlife and Forests projects, talks about how timber and wildlife crimes actually have much in common.

A toxic combination of widespread corruption, weak or absent rule of law, low levels of development and hotspots of armed conflict have left several African countries wide open to exploitation by well-organised transnational criminal gangs.

Wildlife crime has continued throughout the COVID-19 crisis, our latest research shows that many of them have adapted swiftly to changing circumstances