Andrea Crosta: Defender of Wildlife

Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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With as many as a million plant and animal species expected to vanish by 2050, the time is now to intervene and reverse the tide…before it is too late. Andrea Crosta is the founder of the non-profit Earth League International, an “Intelligence agency for Earth,” which protects wildlife, oceans, and forests through intelligence-gathering, research and investigative operations. ELI collaborates with governmental agencies and helps bring down illegal wildlife traffickers, their networks, and those engaged in the “criminal exploitation of nature.” Their work has resulted in the arrest of a jaguar-fang ring in Bolivia and helping the Mexican government pursue the “Cartel of the Sea,” which trafficks sea cucumbers and totoaba. Alec Baldwin speaks with Andrea Crosta about the experiences that led him to this work, what it’s like meeting wildlife traffickers face to face, and why we are in a “now or never” moment for our ecosystem.

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0:00.0	I'm Mooraka, and I'm excited to announce season 4 of my podcast, Mobituaries.
0:07.0	I've got a whole new bunch of stories to share with you about the most fascinating people
0:12.2	and things who are no longer with us.
0:15.0	From famous figures who died on the very same day, to the things I wish would die, like
0:22.0	buffets.
0:23.0	Listen to Mobituaries with Mooraka on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
0:28.9	you get your podcasts.
0:33.4	This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing from iHeartRadio.
0:39.7	The statistics are staggering.
0:42.4	Up to a million plant and animal species are expected to vanish by the year 2050, and
0:49.2	we've experienced an almost 70% decline in wildlife since 1970 alone.
0:55.9	My guest today, Andrea Crosta, is the founder of Earth League International, a non-profit
1:02.6	organization whose objective is to protect our oceans, forests, and wildlife through
1:08.7	research and investigation.
1:10.8	It's an intelligence agency, like the CIA, but for Earth.
1:16.6	The organization has helped crack down on wildlife trafficking, from a cartel moving
1:22.5	sea cucumbers in Mexico to a Jaguar Fang ring in Bolivia.
1:28.4	The dangerous work of infiltrating these organized crime units was recently profiled in the New
1:35.0	Yorker article entitled Earth League International Hunts the Hunters.
1:40.6	The path to Andrea Crosta's calling has been a long and winding road.
1:46.4	Prior to his work as head of EIL, he held various positions in security and animal activism
1:53.8	before starting the online shopping company Think Italy in his native country.
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