Sarah GLUSZEK

Sarah Gluszek is a wildlife crime specialist, and the co-founder and coordinator of the WCPA Wildlife Crime Prevention Specialist Group in collaboration with Re:wild. She has an LLB in Law with Criminology from the University of Manchester and an MSc Master of Conservation Science from Imperial College London. She has worked for over a decade on global wildlife crime and illegal wildlife trade (IWT) programmes with Fauna & Flora, WCS, WWF, UNODC, Cheetah Conservation Fund, Michigan State University, Endangered Species International and BirdLife Malta. While working as a Senior Technical Specialist in Wildlife Trade with Fauna & Flora, she collaboratively developed the Situational Crime Prevention Toolkit (link), with an updated monitoring, learning and evaluation section in version 2, translated into four additional languages and tested at different stages across Fauna & Flora sites, including in Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Tajikistan and Vietnam. In this role, she also shared technical advice and learning from and between teams and partners based in Africa, Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia. This included contributing to developing a regional wildlife crime strategy in the Mano River Union, and facilitating learning exchanges between criminal justice system actors under the EU SWiPE project (link).

Sarah values collaborating across sectors and with interest holders to find solutions to wildlife crime problems that minimise harm to wildlife and communities. She believes in helping protected area teams apply evidence-based approaches and streamlining them into existing management structures.