House Foreign Affairs Committee Discusses Wildlife Trafficking

On Tuesday, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs convened a panel discussion to examine the effects of transnational wildlife trafficking on U.S. security. During the hearing, Members of Congress and panelists discussed methods to combat and report cases of illegal ivory trade and wildlife trafficking. Specifically, panelists brought up efforts by the National Whistleblower Center to expose wildlife crime on social media platforms like Facebook. Members of Congress were particularly concerned with Facebook’s response to wildlife trafficking on its platform. Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY) stated, “Facebook has become a major platform for selling illegal wildlife products. Do you think Facebook is taking this problem seriously?” In response, panelist Gretchen Peters, the Executive Director of the Center on Illicit Networks and Transnational Organized Crime, claimed Facebook’s response to these allegations is slow and limited. In fact, Facebook…

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