Posts by Laurel Neme

Book explores how the world’s first wildlife forensics lab is solving crimes and saving endangered species April 13, 2009 by MCT  A new book explores how the world’s first wildlife forensics lab is solving crimes and saving endangered species. Not long ago, illegal wildlife smugglers could pretty much get away with murder. From selling polar…

I am so touched by your words about my work. Thanks for the recognition. Your book made my years of devotion worthy. I am impressed with the high level research you did. Congratulations for this outstanding piece of work. I hope thousands of people access your book. Persons like you will surely help saving our…

Animal Investigators is not bad….it is outstanding!! My only complaint is that once I picked it up, I couldn’t put it down. Terry Grosz, former FWS Special Agent and author of Wildlife Wars

I attended a major international workshop in Thailand last weekend, which brought together experts to consider wildlife crime in Asia. I took Laurel’s book with me and read it in the evenings. The workshop participants acknowledged that several areas of wildlife crime are driven by organized and sophisticated criminal groups. In the meantime, Laurel’s account…

Animal Investigators is an excellent book, timely, well-written, and fascinating. And it gives important credit to the USFWS Forensic Lab which has in recent years done outstanding and critical work, as the cases in the book illustrate. I have been a little involved in the shahtoosh wool problem — the wool of Tibetan antelope —…