Andrea Crosta

Andrea has over 30 years of experience in conservation projects around the world and, in a parallel professional career, he has been working for over 17 years as an international consultant to companies and governmental agencies on high-end security technologies & services, homeland security, anti-piracy, investigations and risk management. He now applies this unique knowledge to conservation and environmental protection. He is among the founding members of the Wildlife Justice Commission, in the Hague, The Netherlands, a Member of the Board of The Africa Conservancy Foundation, and the creator and project manager of WildLeaks, the world's first wildlife crime whistleblower initiative. Andrea is among the main protagonists of the Netflix's documentary 'The Ivory Game' and of the NatGeo documentary 'Sea of Shadows', about the international trafficking of Totoaba and the potential extinction of the Vaquita porpoise in the Sea of Cortez, Mexico (premiered at the Sundance Film Festival 2019 - Audience Award Winner). He is the co-author of the first investigation into ivory trafficking and terrorism (2010-2012), which changed forever the narrative around the issue of elephant poaching and ivory trafficking: "Africa's White Gold of Jihad: al-Shabaab and Conflict Ivory". He is a Fellow of The Explorers Club.