wildlife trafficking

Three high ranking leaders of a wildlife trafficking gang have been convicted in Nigeria. It's estimated that they were responsible for half the illegal trade in pangolin scales.

Former Australian police officer, Steve Carmody led the investigation in partnership with the Nigerian Customs Service.

Strong international wildlife laws are critical to cracking down on poaching and protecting endangered species. We've all seen the caches of seized elephant tusks or rhino horns, but what happens when live animals are intercepted while being transported by black markets? 

This is a story of a large group of Indian star tortoises seized in Singapore and repatriated to their native home on the Deccan Plateau in India.

Wildlife SOS Director of Marketing and Communications, Dana Wilson chats with Thomas Sharp about the great lengths governments and animal welfare organizations went to help these little victims of the exotic pet trade. 

Tom is a Director of Conservation and Research for Wildlife SOS and Co-Chair IUCN Sloth Bear Expert Team specializing in sloth bears, Asian elephants, reptiles and leopards in India. With 25 years of experience studying wildlife around the globe, Tom has worked with many species from turtles, snakes and crocodiles, nesting birds and raptors, small mammals, blue bull deer, and of course bears, leopards and elephants. He received his Master’s in biology from Northeastern University in Chicago.

Learn more about Wildlife SOS at wildlifesos.org 

The substantial experience of Stephen Scott in financial crime and money laundering investigations is so captivating. In this episode he shares with us his experience and many cases. We are talking about drug trafficking, PEPs, and wildlife trafficking. You can hear about so many red flags as part of the investigation of such money laundering schemes. 
Further, we talk about Stephen's recommendations for books and movies about financial crimes, and his perspective on future trends in AML and compliance. 

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Guest Bio

Stephen is currently the sole proprietor of S SCOTT (AML) and Security Consulting. In his role as consultant he works with the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network of Southern Africa (ARINSA), also working with Alberta Credit Unions and the Royal Cayman Islands Police Service. He retired from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) after 31 years. Stephen specialized in managing and investigating money laundering, organized crime, financial crime and terrorist financing investigations for approximately 24 years. In 2016, he served as a Project Manager in Tanzania as part of a team that provided police training to officers with what is now referred to as the Drug Control Enforcement Authority (DCEA).

Stephen is a public speaker at many AML events in Canada, as well as a designer and facilitator of courses. As an example, at the Canadian Police College he facilitates courses on “Drafting Information to Obtain Search Warrants” and on the “Expert Witness Course”. He served as the Southern Alberta Liaison to the CBSA, FINTRAC and as the Alberta Civil Forfeiture “gatekeeper.” and he is also a member of the RCMP National Expert Witness Program. 

You can connect with Stephen in LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-scott-58473848/

In this conservation podcast Misa Winters and I explore a range of topics including:

• What is the illegal ivory trade and why is it a problem?
• What are the underlying drivers of the illegal ivory trade?
• What is it important to conserve elephants?
• Where are the major elephant poaching hotspots?
• How can we use DNA to combat the illegal ivory trade?
• Why is optimism important for conservation?
• Plus more!

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