We have provided legal advice to a civil society organisation in the Republic of Georgia on whether approval for a Hydropower plant displacing a number of villages has breached EU environmental regulations and conventions the government is bound by.

We support local farming communities in Western Kenya to legally challenge a sugar company involved in polluting the River Kibos and the neighbouring farmlands that the community rely on. This project seeks justice on behalf of these communities and emphasises the impact of water pollution on people and their livelihoods, and the need for better implementation of environmental safeguards.

ILP has entered into a partnership with TRAFFIC, one of the world’s leading anti-wildlife trafficking organisations.  

We have been asked to provide legal assistance on matters such as analysis of marine and wildlife trade legislation and capacity building for forest enforcement officials in various countries around the world, including China, Indonesia, Tanzania and sub-Saharan Africa, among others.

ILP’s lawyers partnered with local community groups and local law enforcement networks in Indonesia to strengthen Indonesia’s enforcement regime.

We were able to support them to better map illicit networks, strengthen their working relationship with government ministries and enforcement agencies to make technical recommendations on how to prioritise resources, improve prosecutor training, levels of enforcement and legislation to reduce illegal wildlife trafficking.

In Tanzania, ILP’s lawyers supported environmental NGOs by identifying discrepancies in fishing legislation that provided a loophole to fishermen and criminal networks to label the harvesting of threatened marine life as legal. Shark fins and sea cucumbers are highly prized commodities on the Asian markets.

As a result of this loophole, more than 300 shark and ray species and 15 sea cucumber species are threatened with extinction.

Bugoma is sanctuary to more than 34 species mammals, 550 highly endangered chimpanzees and hundreds of rare bird species. Under the 1998 Land Act, such forest reserves are held in trust for the “common good of the citizens of Uganda” and be leased out or sold by the government.

However, Ugandan authorities have made a series of seemingly unlawful approvals authorising sugarcane cultivation by a corporation with close connections to the ruling party. ILP’s lawyers filed a claim with the East African Court of Justice for an emergency injunction to prevent the rapid deforestation in Bugoma.