In response to President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s call to action, the Stimson Center has initiated a project on technology and innovation against poaching and wildlife trafficking. During the development and executio …
This week, the White House released its National Strategy for Combating Wildlife Trafficking. The strategy hones in on three key priorities, including strengthening enforcement mechanisms, reducing the demand side of the challenge and strengthening par …
“Late Night Live” on Australia’s ABC Radio recently interviewed Johan Bergenas on the topic of poaching and wildlife crime. To listen to the interview, click here.
There is a new threat in the terrorist hotbed of Africa, and the U.S. military can do much more to combat it. Poaching of endangered elephants and rhinos has become a conservation crisis, and profits from wildlife crimes are filling the coffers of terr …
Stimson hosted an event Jan. 10 with the British Embassy in Washington focusing on major themes of a forthcoming London conference on the illegal wildlife trade. A new Stimson report Killing Animals, Buying Arms examines this issue. Participants includ …
Governments around the world should work with each other, local residents and the private sector to reduce poaching and wildlife crimes that are funneling an estimated $19 billion annually to terrorists and other criminals, a Stimson Center report issu …
“Killing Animals, Buying Arms: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Solutions to Poaching + Wildlife Crime,” outlines a path forward to combat the serious threat posed by poaching and wildlife crime to international security and economic development. …
Globalization is predominantly thought of as a benign force offering greater opportunities for trade, communication and technological innovation. Yet globalization has developed a dark side, exploited by malicious actors like drug and human traffickers …
On 23 May 2013, poachers brutally killed a rhinoceros in Lake Nakuru National park, Kenya. Three days later, poachers attacked and killed two rhinoceroses in two separate incidents: at Solio Ranch near Nyeri in central Kenya, and at Ngulia Rhino Sanctu …
The Stimson Center presents: 2013 Environment and Security Discussion Series The series brings together the Washington, D.C. area’s leading thinkers for an open exchange of ideas and views on the deepening links between environmental and secu …
Johan Bergenas discusses poaching on WPFW 89.3 FM’s “Community Watch & Comment-Wednesdays” program (beginning at 16:47). To hear the full interview, click here.
President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recently stepped up the fight against poachers, who kill tens of thousands of animals worldwide every year, selling their body parts for enormous profits. As well as bringing much nee …
Speakers:Jeffrey Colgan, Assistant Professor, American University School of International Service; author of “Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War” (Cambridge University Press, 2013) David Michel, Director, Environmental Security P …
At the end of last year, visiting Kenya under the auspices of a Stimson Center development and transnational security project in East Africa, I met Baraka, a 2.5-ton black rhinoceros that, despite being completely blind, is truly lucky. Baraka, whose n …
Stimson’s Environmental Security Program launch of: Connecting the Drops: An Indus Basin Roadmap for Cross-Border Water Research, Data Sharing, and Policy Coordination featuring David Michel Director, Environmental Security Program, Stims …