Nature's Secret Service

A Special Agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for over 20 years, Ed worked in Los Angeles and a variety of international posts before retiring in 2022. During his career, he conducted many high-profile international wildlife trafficking investigations involving every continent, including Antarctica, and is known for bringing down some of our planet's most notorious wildlife criminals. He is a recipient of the Humane Law Enforcement Award from the Humane Society of the United States and a record six Law Enforcement Awards from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. You can see him talk about his work on a number of televised documentaries about wildlife crime including, Prime's Bug Out, A&E's Undercover: Caught on Tape, and Animal Planet's Animal Black Ops. Before joining the Service as a special agent, Ed served as an assistant attorney general prosecutor for the State of Washington and as a hearing officer for the State of Colorado. He currently serves as the international law enforcement advisor for the Wildlife Investigators' Training Alliance (WITA) and is a member of the faculty at California State University, Dominguez Hills, where he teaches courses in criminal justice and administrative law.