Wildlife Whistleblowers

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) 17th Conference of the Parties (CoP17) began this past week in Johannesburg, South Africa. Yury Fedotov, executive director of the UN Office on Drug and Crime,...

Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced that Dewey W. Willis Jr. pleaded guilty to federal charges for illegally harvesting Atlantic striped bass from federal waters in 2010. It has been illegal to harvest the Atlantic striped bass, also referred to...

On September 21, 2016, The House of Representatives voted by unanimous consent to pass H.R. 2494, the Eliminate, Neutralize and Disrupt (END) Wildlife Trafficking Act. The bipartisan legislation, designed to combat the growing wildlife trafficking crisis, passed the Senate unanimously...

Today marks the start of the third Our Ocean conference hosted by Secretary of State John F. Kerry.  The conference, which is being held in Washington, DC from September 15-16, 2016, will focus on marine protected areas, sustainable fisheries, and...

Washington, D.C. September 1, 2016. Today, the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge announced the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) as a Grand Prize Winner. The Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge, an initiative of USAID in partnership with the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, and TRAFFIC, is finding new,...

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Washington, D.C. August 29, 2016. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently approved the National Whistleblower Center's application for membership. The IUCN is the world's largest and most diverse environmental network. Membership in the IUCN will facilitate the...

Washington, DC - July 21, 2016 -- The  (ELI) and the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) have announced an upcoming seminar series on Global Wildlife Whistleblowers, scheduled for early 2017.  The first seminar in the series will explore enabling whistleblowers around...

Last week, Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto Partner and Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center Stephen Kohn visited the World Bank to discuss the NWC's Global Wildlife Whistleblower Program with members of the Bank's environmental protection program. Mr. Kohn's presentation...

Last week, the National Whistleblower Center's Executive Director Stephen Kohn visited the World Bank to discuss the NWC's Global Wildlife Whistleblower Program with members of the Bank's environmental protection program. Mr. Kohn's presentation covered the background and specifics of the Program, which aims to...