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Ernie Cooper
Ernie Cooper
Director, TRAFFIC and Wildlife Trade.
Ernie leads the wildlife trade team for WWF-Canada and is the National Representative of the TRAFFIC Network—the wildlife trade monitoring program of WWF and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. He is responsible for monitoring Canadian wildlife trade and its impact on Canadian and international conservation, liaising with Canadian authorities, and assisting the TRAFFIC network’s global efforts.
Ernie has worked in the field of international wildlife conservation for more than 25 years and is a leading Canadian authority on wildlife trade, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), the identification of wildlife products, and enforcement of Canada’s wildlife trade legislation. Prior to joining WWF-Canada in 2001, Ernie was a Canadian federal game officer and was Environment Canada’s first wildlife inspector.
Ernie is an Associate of the Simon Fraser University (SFU) Centre for Forensic Research, an adjunct professor to the SFU School of Criminology, and a member of the Society for Wildlife Forensic Science. He is also a contributing editor for the CITES Secretariat’s online Wiki Species Identification Manual.
 
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