Tracking down environmental criminals

Sonja Peteranderl

by BioMat

For Journalist Magazine, Sonja Peteranderl, Researcher & Journalist in Residence in the Biomaterialities research group, analyzes how open source intelligence tools (OSINT) such as satellite imagery can help uncover environmental crimes. Companies and governments around the world are destroying nature, and criminal groups are also committing illegal logging, exploitation of raw materials and illegal wildlife trade. Exposing these crimes is more important than ever – and can be life-threatening for journalists, researchers and environmentalists.

Read the full report here (German):
https://www.journalist.de/werkstatt/werkstatt-detail/jagd-auf-umweltverbrecher/