Behind those cute videos of monkeys and apes hides a shadowy world of cruel and often illegal activity. In this webinar, Daniel Stiles and Brooke Aldrich discuss the role of social media in primate trafficking, and look at the astonishing findings from a new report detailing the vast scope of animal cruelty online. They'll also outline ways to fight back and protect these animals.

Speakers

Daniel Stiles, Ph.D., Senior Consultant at Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

ACCO expert Daniel Stiles has been an independent illegal wildlife trade investigator since 1999, specializing in market studies of endangered live wildlife and their derivative products. His research has provided key price data on ivory and other products that has been used by UN agencies, the World Bank, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and TRAFFIC. Prior to that, he worked in academia and the UN in the field of past and present natural resource use and management. He has written or contributed to reports by the UN Environment Programme, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, IUCN, TRAFFIC and a number of conservation NGOs.

Brooke Aldrich, M.Sc., Animal Welfare Coalition Coordinator at Asia for Animals

Brooke Aldrich is a coordinator of the Asia for Animals Social Media Animal Cruelty Coalition (SMACC). She also works for the Animals Asia Foundation and is a trustee and director for Neotropical Primate Conservation. She began working on behalf of primates in 1999 as a volunteer at a monkey sanctuary in the UK, and has since worked with, studied, and advocated for primates on four continents. Her work includes a focus on the use of primates as “entertainers”, both in social media and in other contexts.

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