Wildlife Whistleblowers
Facebook isn’t safe for reptiles. Smugglers busted in Java had five big lizards for sale
Wildlife trafficking on Facebook took a hit last week, with Agence France-Press (AFP) reporting that five men were arrested in Indonesia in connection with selling Komodo dragons and other wild animals through Facebook According to AFP: The vast Southeast Asian...
Coming up: Learning how to use environmental whistleblowers to stop pollution at sea
Whistleblowers play a big role in rooting out corporate crime and government misdeeds that take place behind closed doors. They also have a role in flagging environmental crimes that happen out-of-site on the high seas. On April 16, a panel...
As citizens get more involved in spotting wildlife crime, they could benefit from whistleblower protections
Corrupt government officials and informants who fear retribution. These are some of the challenges faced by citizens who become involved in helping enforce illegal logging regulations. Three panelists discussed these and other forestry crime issues at March 21 webinar on...
Whistleblowers can be part of the solution as the ocean summit targets threats to the sea
By Hollyn Walters This week’s World Ocean Summit in Abu Dhabi will address five major threats to the oceans: overfishing, coastal pollution, habitat destruction, warming, and acidification. The goal of the summit is to build conceptual bridges across governments and...
On World Wildlife Day, a reminder that whistleblowers can help protect turtles, dolphins and other marine species
The United Nations has named March 3, Sunday, as World Wildlife Day.This year's theme is “Life below water,” and events took pace Friday at the United Nations in New York and around the globe. They include shoreline trash collection in British Columbia, a...
Talking about wildlife whistleblowers and how they could save the world’s cutest porpoise
From Terra Verde, a weekly public radio program on environmental news. Has the US government been failing to take advantage of an existing wildlife crime whistleblower program to fight against wildlife crime? Terra Verde host and Earth Island Journal editor Maureen Nandini...
Opinion: Landmark Bill Combating Wildlife Trafficking Reintroduced in the House
By Maya Efrati On January 30, 2019, Reps. Don Young (R-AK) and John Garamendi (D-CA) introduced the Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act of 2019 (H.R. 864). This bipartisan, groundbreaking legislation enhances the ability of informants worldwide to detect and report wildlife...
Wildlife whistleblowers and advocates collaborate to “strengthen capacity to implement and enforce environmental requirements.”
Laws on the books designed to protect wildlife whistleblowers have been underutilized, according to a spring report from the Government Accounting Office. Now, two groups devoted to wildlife protection have joined with the National Whistleblower Center to help ensure that U.S....
Corruption: Planet earth is being sold out
Protecting and incentivizing whistleblowers is essential to combat environmental crimes The world is facing daunting environmental challenges, many exacerbated by corruption. A number of the planet’s protected species are disappearing rapidly, due in part to the illegal trade in flora...
As Anti-Corruption Day Approaches, WJC Report Reminds Us of the Importance of Whistleblower Incentives
A recent investigation of wildlife trafficking highlights the importance of improving whistleblower incentives in the wildlife crimes sphere. Through “Operation Dragon,” the Wildlife Justice Commission (“WJC”) investigated the ties between the trafficking of endangered and CITES-listed freshwater turtles and the...
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