Wildlife Alliance

Combating Global Wildlife Trafficking

The global illegal wildlife trade is an organized crime estimated at $10 to $20 billion per year that is driving many of the world's species toward extinction. Steve Galster of Wildlife Alliance will talk about his decades-long struggle to expose and combat wildlife crime in an effort to save tigers, clouded leopards, elephants, and other endangered species, especially in Asia. Galster, who directs Wildlife Alliance's Thailand program, works to help Southeast Asian governments enforce wildlife protection laws by training police, border guards, forest rangers, and other law-enforcement agencies to detect and prevent poaching and wildlife trafficking. He has conducted undercover wildlife crime investigations around the world  to bust poachers and smugglers. Along with his talk, Galster will show excerpts from a recent Discovery Channel Europe documentary series, Crime Scene Wild, which has not yet been screened in the U.S. Please join us for light refreshments at 6:30 p.m.; the screening and presentation begin at 7 p.m. FREE. RSVP