Scienze – Specie Poco Protette

Chi indaga sui traffici criminali di cistifellea d’orso e denti di ghepardo Pellicce, organi, corni: é un giro di affari (illeciti) per venti miliardi di dollari, Ora un libro racconta come, nei laboratori dell’Oregon, sono stati risolti i casi piü difficili.

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As seen on the Sierra Club – The Green Life

The Green Life—Wednesday Book Roundup: Books By and About Eco-Heroes such as Jeff Corwin and Laurel Neme   Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species (by Laurel A. Neme, $25, Simon and Schuster, Apr. 2009): This book offers a fascinating glimpse into the animal kingdom’s CSI equivalent:…

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Laurel Neme: Wildlife Crime Documentation

By Rebekah K. Murray They were dead: dozens of elephants with missing tusks. It was 1992, and Tanzania’s chief wildlife officer, Musa Mohammed Lyimo, suspected that the elephants had been killed for their ivory tusks. But how could he prove it? Eight years later, Laurel Neme (’85, M.P.P. ’86) sat in Lyimo’s office and heard…

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C-SPAN Book TV – air dates for May and June 2009

About the Program: The author presents an inside look at the world’s first forensic lab for crimes against wildlife, including wildlife trafficking and killing members of endangered species. the lab is housed at the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Saturday, May 30, 7PM Sunday, May 31, 2AM Monday, June 1, 6AM View Video on CSPAN Book…

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NPR’s Science Friday

Wildlife CSI (broadcast Friday, May 1st, 2009; 3:20-4:00 PM EST) Host Ira Flatow www.sciencefriday.com/feeds/radio/ CSI: Animal Kingdom Can DNA evidence prove that a walrus was poached? Who is responsible for taking down illegal caviar traffickers? A scientist from an animal forensics lab in the U.S. and a National Fish and Wildlife special agent talk about busting…

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Vermont Edition VPR – Wildlife CSI

Vermont Public Radio – http://www.vpr.net/episode/45886/ Wildlife CSI Investigating illegal wildlife trafficking By Jane Lindholm Wildlife smuggling is a $20 billion-a-year business and the third-largest illegal trade worldwide. Dr. Laurel Neme is an international resource management consultant who lives in Huntington, Vermont. She’s just written a book about the world’s first and only CSI lab for wildlife, the…

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