Launch of the Canadian Environmental Crime Research Network (CECRN), Lancement du Réseau canadien de recherche sur le crime environnemental (RCRCE)
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.
Speakers
As a Research Consultant and Project Lead with World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and a Banting Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, Dr. Michelle Anagnostou carries out research on illegal wildlife trade and its connection to organized crime, the implementation of equitable and collaborative wildlife enforcement, and the development of a framework to tackle illicit strategies employed by wildlife traffickers such as sophisticated money laundering tactics. With over 25 years of experience as a practitioner combatting international environmental crime, Sheldon Jordan has served as Director General of Wildlife Enforcement for Environment and Climate Change Canada, as an Analysis Coordinator for INTERPOL's Illicit Goods Programme, as the Chair of INTERPOL's Wildlife Crime Working Group, and as a member of the UK Government's Illegal Wildlife Trade Advisory Board.
An accomplished academic and musician, Dr. Délon Alain Omrow is a Professor and Sessional Instructor at Centennial College and Ontario Tech University. His research and teaching focus on eco-violence, green criminology, racialized ecologies, debt-for-nature swaps, and the androcentric and anthropocentric symbiosis of trauma on Indigenous bodies and land. Dr. Omrow is also a three-time Canadian Latin Grammy nominee, a two-time Oshawa Music Award winner and has been featured on CBC Music’s SearchLight 2023 Top 100 List for his single “Peace & Love”, produced by Grammy-nominated producer StoneBridge.Having co-chaired the 2023 Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in addition to working with the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) as a Coordinating Lead Author on the sixth flagship Global Environmental Outlook report, Dr. Peter Stoett is a renowned environmentalist, scholar of global governance, and human rights advocate who also serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University.
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