Comunicato Stampa Prima distruzione pubblica di avorio in Italia Roma come New York, Parigi e Nairobi: il 31 marzo, al Circo Massimo, Roma Roma, 3 Marzo 2016. In occasione del World Wildlife Day, la Elephant Action League, insieme al Ministero dell’Ambiente e al Corpo Forestale dello Stato, annunciano la propria attiva partecipazione alla lotta contro […]
PRESS RELEASE Italy joins the fight against elephant poaching, ivory trafficking and transnational criminal organizations profiting from wildlife crime. Rome, 3 March, 2016. To celebrate World Wildlife Day the American nonprofit Elephant Action League, together with the Italian Ministry of Environment and the Italian Forest Police, is proud to announce the first Italian Ivory Crush to […]
PRESS RELEASE February 8, 2016. Washington DC. Elephant Action League (EAL) is pleased to announce that we are a newly appointed Associate Member of the US Wildlife Trafficking Alliance (USWTA). The USWTA is a voluntary coalition of non-profit organizations, companies, foundations and media interests that will be working closely with the U.S. government in a […]
Elephant Action League’s partner Wildlife Justice Commission (WJC), in The Hague, has engaged the government of Vietnam on a large ivory & rhino horn trafficking network The Wildlife Justice Commission has presented the authorities of Viet Nam with a Map of Facts regarding a large organized criminal network trading in endangered wildlife species. This criminal network, based […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE An undercover investigation by the Elephant Action League (EAL) – (now Earth League International) on China’s ivory trade, including rhino horn trade and the role of trophy hunting. Washington, DC, December 30, 2015. EAL publishes today a report on its undercover investigation in mainland China and Hong Kong in an effort to expose the areas […]
Four Chinese Nationals Arrested in Possession of 11 Rhino Horns Sentenced to 20 years in Prison Mbeya, Tanzania, December 18, 2015. The four Chinese nationals – Song Lei (33), Xiao Shaodan (29), Chen Jianlin (34) and Hu Liang (30) – arrested in Tanzania’s Mbeya Region in November while in possession of 11 rhino horns were […]
Elephant Action League’s Founder Mr. Andrea Crosta Awarded Prestigious Italian Scanno Prize Rome, December 15, 2015. The co-founder of the US-based Elephant Action League (EAL), Mr. Andrea Crosta, was awarded Italy’s prestigious Scanno Prize in the beautiful medieval village of Scanno, two hours from Rome. Mr. Crosta was awarded the prize in the “Values” category for […]
PRESS RELEASE BREAKING NEWS “Shetani,” Tanzania’s Most Wanted Elephant Poacher and Ivory Trafficker, Arrested by Elite Task Force Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, October 29, 2015. The law enforcement body responsible for the arrest of the “Queen of Ivory” earlier this month has officially arrested notorious elephant poacher Boniface Matthew Mariango, referred to by law enforcement […]
PRESS RELEASE Breaking News “The Queen of Ivory”, a Chinese national, arrested by a specialized Task Force in Tanzania. To date, she is the most important ivory trafficker ever arrested in the country. Dar-es-Salaam, 8 October 2015 – A specialized wildlife trafficking unit under Tanzania’s National and Transnational Serious Crimes Investigation Unit (NTSCIU) arrested a […]
A Criminal Intelligence Analysis of Elephant Poaching and Ivory Trafficking in East Africa This case study takes data directly from the field collected by Global Eye and Elephant Action League assets who infiltrated four elephant poaching and ivory trafficking networks in East Africa. What we found is in some respects at odds with the accepted […]
