Podcasts about elephant action league

It Doesn’t Challenge You, It Can’t Change You. This fast-paced and richly stitched documentary, employing mesmerizing visuals driven by Keith David’s commanding narration, and fueled by dozens of engaging experts. Five years in the making and filmed across 9 countries, the feature-length documentary depicts the dire threats facing African wildlife. Survival hangs in the balance. This powerful cinematic call to action demonstrates the dire challenges facing species who depend on biodiversity, including our own. Through interviews with dozens of conservation experts ranging from Dr. Jane Goodall, to wildlife trophy hunters, filmmaker and director Phyllis Stuart, Co-Produced by Eli Weiss, Wild DaZe explores the relationship between international crime cartels, colluding government officials, animal poaching, the illegal ivory trade, cattle barons and human beings, as she examines how rampant corruption complicates the fight to save species nearing extinction. Tickets on sale Now!

It Doesn't Challenge You, It Can't Change You. This fast-paced and richly stitched documentary, employing mesmerizing visuals driven by Keith David's commanding narration, and fueled by dozens of engaging experts. Five years in the making and filmed across 9 countries, the feature-length documentary depicts the dire threats facing African wildlife. Survival hangs in the balance. This powerful cinematic call to action demonstrates the dire challenges facing species who depend on biodiversity, including our own. Through interviews with dozens of conservation experts ranging from Dr. Jane Goodall, to wildlife trophy hunters, filmmaker and director Phyllis Stuart, Co-Produced by Eli Weiss, Wild DaZe explores the relationship between international crime cartels, colluding government officials, animal poaching, the illegal ivory trade, cattle barons and human beings, as she examines how rampant corruption complicates the fight to save species nearing extinction. Tickets on sale Now!

The topic of wildlife crime is inherently complex, and more often than not, dominant narratives fail to draw out the ever-present nuances regarding poaching and illegal trafficking. Regardless, we cannot ignore the fact that wildlife crime is the world’s fourth largest criminal enterprise. Over a century ago, the world’s tiger population exceeded one hundred thousand. Today, there are less than four thousand, meaning that we have lost ninety-seven percent of the world’s tiger population in just one century. Yet again we are reminded of the atrocities unfolding under a supremacist, capitalist, global market that supports the rapid and senseless killing of living beings for the mere commodification of their “parts.” This week on the program Andrea Crosta joins Ayana in a conversation around wildlife crime. Andrea is all too familiar with dominant narratives that misplace fixation, assume guilt incorrectly, or aid in sweeping generalization that disregard cultural sensitivity and further western imposition associated with wildlife crime. Ayana and Andrea discuss a myriad of topics ranging from the importance of an intelligence-led approach to combating wildlife crime, how wildlife crime impacts local and global economies, the geography of trafficking, the socio-political realities that necessitate poaching and trafficking, and the grave danger posed by an increased militarization of conservation. Andrea Crosta has over 30 years of experience in conservation projects around the world and in a parallel professional career, has been working for over 18 years as an international consultant to companies and governmental agencies on high-end security technologies and services, homeland security, anti-piracy, and risk management. Andrea now applies this unique knowledge to conservation and wildlife protection as the Executive Director and co-founder of Elephant Action League, an intelligence-led non-profit organization focused on fighting wildlife crime. Andrea is also the creator and project manager of WildLeaks, the first whistleblower initiative dedicated to wildlife crime. Andrea is among the main protagonists of the documentaries ‘The Ivory Game’ and ‘Sea of Shadows,’ which recently won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival 2019. Music by Y La Bamba http://www.ylabamba.com/

We all know that the Vaquita, a small porpoise endemic to the Sea of Cortez, is nearly extinct; however, there are many organizations that are still fighting to keep the Vaquita from going extinct.  The Vaquita population is in trouble because they keep getting killed from illegal fishing practices in the Sea of Cortez by fishers who are trying to catch another endangered species called Totoaba. Asian countries are seeking out these fish for their swim bladders in which they think has healing properties (it has never been medically proven).  The people working to protect the Totoaba and the Vaquita are having a hard time stopping the fishers from catching an illegal, but high priced fish. Some organizations have moved to stop the middle people from arranging the shipments of Totoaba swim bladders to China from Mexico. And it's working! A new commentary on Mongabay news by Andrea Crosta, Executive Director and Co-Founder of the international illegal trade watchdog group, Elephant Action League, describes how her organization and partners have infiltrated some operations that conduct illegal operations to provide information to the proper authorities to make arrests.  Check out the rest of the details by listening to the podcast.  Do you think organizations should help provide intelligence on illegal operations that could lead to an arrest? Share your thoughts in the Facebook Group: http://www.speakupforblue.com/group. Want to get started on living for a better Ocean? Sign up for the Grove Collaborative and get a free gift: http://www.speakupforblue.com/goocean. 

How has species survival become about law enforcement? With my guests today, filmmaker Phyllis Stuart, and Elephant Action League Founder and Director Andrea Crosta, we talk about a groundbreaking and compelling new documentary wildlife film, Wild Daze, directed and produced by Stuart, that unveils what is really happening in the world of illegal trafficking in wildlife and the complexity of the models in place to protect nature. Wild Daze leads audiences through Africa’s complex and murky complicity and corruption, to understand the toll human activity has on the wild. Crosta, Elephant Action League, and creator of WildLeaks, shares how conservationists alone cannot succeed as law enforcement against illegal trafficking without the political will and support of the countries involved. Today’s forces make it critical to shift conservation models to supports local people living with wildlife – as we keep saying on this show, Conservation IS about People.

How has species survival become about law enforcement? With my guests today, filmmaker Phyllis Stuart, and Elephant Action League Founder and Director Andrea Crosta, we talk about a groundbreaking and compelling new documentary wildlife film, Wild Daze, directed and produced by Stuart, that unveils what is really happening in the world of illegal trafficking in wildlife and the complexity of the models in place to protect nature. Wild Daze leads audiences through Africa's complex and murky complicity and corruption, to understand the toll human activity has on the wild. Crosta, Elephant Action League, and creator of WildLeaks, shares how conservationists alone cannot succeed as law enforcement against illegal trafficking without the political will and support of the countries involved. Today's forces make it critical to shift conservation models to supports local people living with wildlife – as we keep saying on this show, Conservation IS about People.

Andrea Crosta of the Elephant Action League (EAL), one of the stars of the new Netflix documentary The Ivory Game, discusses how Chinese demand is driving the multi-billion dollar trade in ivory, as well as EAL’s project WildLeaks and the undercover investigations in mainland China and Hong Kong that have helped expose the illegal ivory being laundered through legal ivory markets. The Ivory Game premieres on Netflix on November 4. We also speak with Borneo Futures founder Erik Meijaard about his new feature for Mongabay entitled "Company poised to destroy critical orangutan habitat in breach of Indonesia’s moratorium." The article details the plans of an Indonesian company to cut down a forest that is home to between 750 and 1750 orangutans, the third-largest population in the province of West Kalimantan. The forest is slated for conversion to an industrial tree plantation. And as usual we'll round up some of the top environmental news from around the world.

Dove si parla della Giornata della Memoria e dell'Accoglienza perchè tutti noi Animali ci spostiamo, della vittoria su Horlan, di Freccia45, di Macachi, con ANDREA CROSTA, direttore e cofondatore di Elephant Action League, membro di Wildlife Justice Commission, di Cop17, di Cites, di Elefanti, di Rinoceronti, di Campagna Join the Herd Unisciti alla Mandria, di avorio, di criminalità, di Asini, di rangers, di Sudafrica, si ringrazia Valentina Sargenti e si scopre che Andrea avrebbe voluto essere un Lupo

Dove si parla della Giornata della Memoria e dell'Accoglienza perchè tutti noi Animali ci spostiamo, della vittoria su Horlan, di Freccia45, di Macachi, con ANDREA CROSTA, direttore e cofondatore di Elephant Action League, membro di Wildlife Justice Commission, di Cop17, di Cites, di Elefanti, di Rinoceronti, di Campagna Join the Herd Unisciti alla Mandria, di avorio, di criminalità, di Asini, di rangers, di Sudafrica, si ringrazia Valentina Sargenti e si scopre che Andrea avrebbe voluto essere un Lupo

Dove si parla della Giornata della Memoria e dell'Accoglienza perchè tutti noi Animali ci spostiamo, della vittoria su Horlan, di Freccia45, di Macachi, con ANDREA CROSTA, direttore e cofondatore di Elephant Action League, membro di Wildlife Justice Commission, di Cop17, di Cites, di Elefanti, di Rinoceronti, di Campagna Join the Herd Unisciti alla Mandria, di avorio, di criminalità, di Asini, di rangers, di Sudafrica, si ringrazia Valentina Sargenti e si scopre che Andrea avrebbe voluto essere un Lupo

For the first time in years, there is positive news to report in the fight to save Africa's elephants from extinction. A new study by the Save the Elephants revealed that the price of ivory in China has halved over the past 18 months, indicating that heightened social awareness on the Mainland combined with a series of new policy initiatives by the government are beginning to impact demand in the world's largest ivory market. The Chinese government appears to be following up on president Xi Jinping's October 2015 announcement that Beijing will eventually phase out the country's ivory trade. Although specific details about the proposed ban have not been revealed and the new law has yet to go into effect, the market for this once prized precious resource is changing. Conservationists had hoped that president Xi would use the recent China-Africa summit in Johannesburg as a forum to announce the implementation of the ban, or at least provide some information on what the government plans to do. That did not happen. Instead, wildlife conservation and other environmental issues were largely sidelined as both Chinese and African leaders focused on infrastructure, security and other economic development issues. Andrea Crosta, co-founder and Executive Director of the Elephant Action League, said he wasn't surprised or event disappointed that the ivory issue did not figure prominently at FOCAC. Rather, he's been encouraged recently by trends in China where he sees a growing number of consumers shunning ivory products combined with a series of new legal measures by the government to crack down on illegal trading activity. "China is doing more to protect elephants than Africa," said Crosta, highlighting what is no doubt an extremely sensitive issue in the global conservation community where China has been understandably been vilified as enemy #1 of Africa's embattled elephants. Crosta joins Eric & Cobus to discuss why the ivory issue is far more complicated than simply shutting down demand in China. Reforming conservation laws, customs enforcement and eliminating corruption in Africa are equally important in the fight to save these beautiful animals.

On Wednesday October 7, 2015, Yang Feng Glan, a 66-year-old Chinese restaurant owner in Dar es Salaam station and vice-president and secretary-general of the Tanzania China-Africa business council, appeared in a Tanzanian court to be charged with smuggling ivory between 2000 and 2014. Media reports have dubbed her the "Ivory Queen" and the Elephant Action League, an American NGO, described her as “the most important ivory trafficker ever arrested in the country.” Host Winslow Robertson and new cohost Lina Benabdallah are joined by Hongxiang Huang, owner and manager of the China-Africa social enterprise China House and expert on China-Africa ivory smuggling issues, to look closer at this story. Did Yang Feng Glan fit the proverbial profile of a Chinese ivory smuggler in Africa?

全文请参阅微信周六第三条。This is NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Mark Griffiths in Beijing. Here is the news. A Chinese woman who's become known as the Queen of Ivory has been charged with smuggling ivory worth millions of dollars by a court in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Associated Press cited a conservation group, Elephant Action League, as saying that Yang Feng-lan is the most prominent ivory trafficker as so far to be charged so far in the war against elephant poaching. She is believed to be behind the trafficking of a huge quantity of ivory over several years. Yang was reported to have smuggled almost 2 tons of ivory worth 2.7 million U.S. dollars between 2000 and 2014. She has been charged along with two Tanzanian men, who were allegedly connected with international poachers, traders and buyers. In January, China destroyed 6 metric tons of illegal ivory seized over the years in Dongguan, Guangdong province. In May, the government destroyed 660 kilograms of confiscated ivory, the second such action against wildlife crime this year. The illegal ivory was dumped into crushers in Beijing and ground down by the State Forestry Administration and the General Administration of Customs. Combating wildlife trafficking is one of the major outcomes of President Xi Jinping's recently state visit to the United States.

Intelligence means different things to different people. To an anthrozoologist or biologist, it can be the measurement of intellect or sentience in a living being. To someone in law enforcement, it’s the product of analyzed data. And both versions are what we’re discussing on this week’s episode. Andrea Crosta, a security expert who has worked with the likes of Homeland Security, has taken his experience and changed his focus to the illegal wildlife trade. Head of the Elephant Action League, Crosta recently opened the floodgates on WildLeaks – a crime fighting tool to protect the people and animals involved in the illegal trade worldwide. Our good friend and internationally-renowned animal expert Dr. Marc Bekoff says that all animals live emotional lives – even crayfish. A recent study shows that crayfish, a low-order invertebrate, has the same chemical reaction to stimuli and serotonin as humans. The implications of this are profound – and Marc will share his thoughts.