Launch of the Canadian Environmental Crime Research Network (CECRN), Lancement du Réseau canadien de recherche sur le crime environnemental (RCRCE)

Thursday, May 8: 9am to 5:30 pm (EDT)
Friday, May 9: 9am to 12pm (EDT)

Join us in-person or online Thursday May 8th for the first-ever Canadian Environmental Crime Symposium hosted by Ontario Tech University. Global research and practitioner experts will present on transnational environmental crime, organized crime and environmental crime convergences, ecoviolence and people, species justice, poaching, trafficking, and environmental crime journalism. The event will also serve to kickoff the new Canadian Environmental Crime Research Network. There will also be two book launches with co-authors present - Ecoviolence Studies - Human Exploitation and Environmental Crime and the Canadian debut of the Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Crime.

This event is open to the public and may be of particular interest to researchers and students, policy experts, environmental enforcement practitioners, journalists, compliance specialists as well as civil society organizations.

Registration for in-person at Ontario Tech University's Downtown Oshawa Campus is limited, so please register early.

Online attendance is open in Canada and abroad. Registration is free.

Please find our list of speakers, here.