Wildlife Resources

U.S. citizens, foreign nationals, and NGOs can report wildlife crimes that occur outside of the U.S. and be eligible for rewards under U.S. whistleblower law provisions. Learn about how NWC can help.

Watch NWC Executive Director John Kostyack and NWC Board Chair Stephen M. Kohn present on wildlife whistleblower protections and strategies on WWF's Targeting Natural Resource Corruption project's webinar, "Whistleblower protection: A tool for stopping corruption that threatens the world’s forests, fisheries and wildlife."

Read the special report on the crucial need for whistleblowers in reporting illegal wildlife trafficking and trade. The report was released during NWC board chairman, Stephen Kohn's appearance at the 2019 Thinking Animals Summit.

Watch NWC Executive Director, John Kostyack, present on how citizens can engage in everyday whistleblowing to protect the environment as part of the Environmental Law Institute's (ELI) webinar "Collecting and Reporting Evidence of Environmental Law Violations: Tools That Work for Citizens" from June 13, 2019.

Read the National Whistleblower Center's analysis on the Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act.

Read the report on how the Wildlife Conservation and Anti-Trafficking Act will incentivize wildlife whistleblowers & can halt wildlife traffickers.

Watch the National Whistleblower Center's presentation on how the False Claims Act (FCA) and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) can be used to assist and protect wildlife whistleblowers.

Watch the National Whistleblower Center's guide for attorneys seeking to represent a wildlife whistleblower. U.S. attorneys can join the Wildlife Whistleblower Attorney Referral Service to be at the forefront of a new legal approach to combat global threats like wildlife trafficking.

Whistleblowers worldwide can qualify for monetary rewards when reporting wildlife trafficking, illegal logging, illegal poaching, and illegal fishing when the information results in a successful enforcement action.