Earth League International
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Tracking and exposing the criminal networks behind wildlife trafficking and environmental crime worldwide.
About Earth League International
Earth League International is an investigative non-profit that brings intelligence tradecraft to the fight against wildlife and environmental crime.
Environmental crime is rarely an isolated problem. The trafficking of wildlife and natural resources routinely overlaps with money laundering, corruption, drug and arms smuggling and other serious organised crime. Earth League International treats this convergence as the heart of the issue, going after the transnational networks behind it rather than the symptoms alone.
What sets the organisation apart is its method. It approaches environmental crime the way security services approach any serious threat, as an intelligence problem first. Its team is drawn from careers in intelligence, law enforcement and security, and it applies that professional tradecraft to undercover work, source networks and the analysis of criminal operations.
Investigators work in the field across trafficking hotspots, documenting how these networks function, who profits and how illicit money moves. The intelligence they gather is turned into confidential briefs and target profiles and shared with the law enforcement and government agencies able to act on it. The organisation also runs WildLeaks, a whistleblowing platform for reporting environmental crime, and its work has featured in documentaries including The Ivory Game and Sea of Shadows.
Supporting this work helps expose the high-level traffickers who would otherwise operate in the shadows, strengthening the intelligence that enables authorities to disrupt environmental crime at its source.
Field Investigations and Intelligence
Undercover work to map and disrupt transnational networks trafficking wildlife and other natural resources.
WildLeaks
A secure whistleblowing channel where insiders can safely report wildlife and forest crime.
Environmental Crime Convergence
Tracing how wildlife crime overlaps with money laundering, drugs, arms and human smuggling.
Media and Public Outreach
Turning investigations into documentaries and stories that expose environmental crime to the world.
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