John M. Sellar

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…

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George Schaller

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 —…

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Book Review by Mother Nature Network April 2009

Animal Investigators By Laurel A Neme Ph.D. A new book explores how the world’s first wildlife forensics lab is solving crimes and saving endangered species. By Jessica Knoblauch Mother Nature Network (MNN.COM) Not long ago, illegal wildlife smugglers could pretty much get away with murder. From selling polar bear rugs to crocodile-face ashtrays, these smugglers…

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New Scientist reviews Animal Investigtors

NewScientist.com Review: Animal Investigators by Laurel A. Neme 25 March 2009 by Henry Nicholls Magazine issue 2701. ILLEGAL wildlife trafficking is worth an estimated $20 billion a year. That makes it the third most lucrative criminal activity, coming in just behind drug and human trafficking and, incredibly, ahead of arms smuggling. This is a stark…

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