New Vaquita Report: Unraveling the Criminal Processes Behind the Illicit Totoaba Trade through Crime Script Analysis -November 2024: Earth League International (ELI), the City University of New York – John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and the State University of New York – Farmingdale, are excited to collaborate on the launch of the “Trafficking Diaries” [...]
Earth League International unveils most comprehensive investigative report to date on Shark Fin Trafficking from Latin America to Asia, and Environmental Crime Convergence April 22, 2024. Earth League International (ELI) is proud to announce the release of a groundbreaking report titled Operation STELLA MARIS: Investigating Shark Fin Trafficking Networks in Latin America and East Asia Through the [...]
Earth League International and John Jay College of Criminal Justice unveil ground-breaking Report on Environmental Crime Convergence June 6, 2023. Earth League International (ELI) and John Jay College of Criminal Justice are proud to announce the release of a grounded-breaking report titled Environmental Crime Convergence: Launching an Environmental Crime Convergence Paradigm Through Investigation of Transnational Organized Crime Operations. [...]
ELI featured in The New Yorker as the cover story Earth League International Hunts the Hunters A conservation N.G.O. infiltrates wildlife-trafficking rings to bring them down. By Tad Friend - May 15, 2023 After nearly a year of work with a reporter embedded in our team, The New Yorker magazine published a long feature article about [...]
Operation JAGUAR Unveiling the Criminal Networks Behind Jaguar Trafficking in Suriname In 2019 Earth League International (ELI), in partnership with IUCN NL, launched Operation JAGUAR, generously funded by the Dutch Postcode Lottery. Poaching sites and routes identified by ELI The primary objective of this project was to combat jaguar trafficking across Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and [...]
Operation JAGUAR: Final Report Los Angeles, March 2023. In 2019 Earth League International (ELI), in partnership with IUCN NL, launched 'Operation JAGUAR', generously funded by the Dutch Postcode Lottery. The primary objective of this program was to combat jaguar trafficking across Bolivia, Peru, Guyana, and Suriname, guided by four strategic avenues: Systematically comprehend the scale, [...]
Operation JAGUAR: Summary Report: Researching Crime Convergence to better understand and combat jaguar trafficking Los Angeles, 14 November 2022. Earth League International began investigating the trafficking of jaguar parts in 2017. Operation JAGUAR was launched in 2019, in collaboration with IUCN Netherlands and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and funded by the Dutch [...]
Explaining Environmental and Organized Crime Convergence Through a Systematic Analysis of the Operational Dynamics of Transnational Criminal Groups: a new research paradigm by ELI Los Angeles, November 12, 2022 / Earth League International (ELI) has partnered with John Jay College of Criminal Justice to produce a ground-breaking summary report on Environmental Crime Convergence. As one [...]
THE FIRST REPORT OF WILDLEAKS THE WORLD’S FIRST WHISTLEBLOWER INITIATIVE DEDICATED TO ENVIRONMENTAL/WILDLIFE CRIME September 8, 2020: Six years after the launch of the WildLeaks Project, Earth League International (ELI) is thrilled to release its first comprehensive report on this ground-breaking initiative. ELI realized, years ago, that the most crucial information about environmental/wildlife crime, and [...]
Earth League International investigated the sale of illegal ivory in Europe, in partnership with Avaaz and Oxford University July 2018: A New Investigative Report Illegal Ivory Trade in Europe - the report European officials have purported that there is no evidence that the legal ivory trade in the EU is providing cover for illegal ivory. [...]
In response to the dire circumstances facing the vaquita as by-catch of the illegal totoaba trade, in 2017 Earth League International (ELI) commenced an intelligence gathering operation called Operation FAKE GOLD. Since then, ELI has been discreetly investigating totoaba trafficking and the Vaquita situation, mapping and researching the entire illicit totoaba maw (swim bladder) supply chain, from the Baja California [...]
GRINDING RHINO An Investigative Report on the First Undercover Operation into Rhino Horn Trafficking from Africa to China Los Angeles, July 18, 2017. Earth League International - ELI (formerly Elephant Action League) is releasing today an investigative report on Operation RED CLOUD, a groundbreaking undercover investigation conducted in Vietnam and China on rhino horn trafficking. In [...]
BLENDING IVORY OLD LOOPHOLES, NEW HOPES AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT ON CHINA’S IVORY TRADE Los Angeles, January 10, 2016. Earth League International - ELI (formerly Elephant Action League) is releasing today an investigative report on Operation GAME OVER, a groundbreaking undercover investigation conducted in mainland China and Hong Kong. The report aims to expose how illegal [...]
Based on these investigative efforts, we estimated that in that period up to 3 tons of ivory was smuggled from Kenya
Upon the conclusion of our investigations, ELI prepares a Confidential Intelligence Brief (CIB) to share with relevant law enforcement bodies at national, regional, and international levels, depending on the nature of intelligence and which agencies are well-positioned to take effective action. The CIB is arguably the most important piece of output from our intelligence and investigative activities. [...]
