Scott Hajost

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Scott Hajost is the Managing Director of the Global Wildlife Whistleblower Program at the National Whistleblower Center in Washington, D.C. – an IUCN Member organisation. He is an international lawyer and environmental policy and law expert with over 37 years’ experience working with the US government, NGOs, multilateral institutions and leading global environment and development projects. Mr. Hajost was formerly Executive Director of the IUCN USA Multilateral Office. He is an elected member of the Executive Committee of the IUCN US National Committee, Vice-Chair of the Board of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition, and a member of several IUCN commissions including the World Commission on Environmental Law.

The wildlife trade involves hundreds of millions of individual plants and animals from tens of thousands of species The wildlife trade involves hundreds of millions of individual plants and animals from tens of thousands of species. Photo: Dan Challender/Save Vietnam's Wildlife

Whistleblowers against wildlife crime

Empowering whistleblowers is the key to combating wildlife crime
Updated: 21.02.2020

Scott Hajost

Whistleblowers have been effective at combatting financial and corporate crime, but are sorely lacking in the sphere of wildlife crime. If empowered to combat it, whistleblowers could be...

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