CSI WILDLIFE

CSI Wildlife is a personal and inspiring story about personal leadership, responsibility, and how a single idea can create global impact.

Andro Vos takes readers into the closed world behind wildlife crime and shows how following traces -both literally and strategically - can lead to real impact. From the field to the boardroom. From observation to action.

In this book, Andro Vos recounts how a childhood in Suriname and a lifetime of observing, searching, and persisting led him to the heart of a hidden war: wildlife crime. It is a multi-billion-dollar industry that destroys nature, undermines security, and costs human lives-largely invisible and poorly understood.

What begins with a single decision, without a Plan B, grows into a global mission.

As a forensic specialist, Vos comes face-to-face with the consequences of poaching, including the killing of a rhino in Kruger National Park. There he sees not only a crime, but a systemic failure: a lack of knowledge, structure, and forensic expertise in the fight against organized wildlife crime.

This book shows what becomes possible when science, law enforcement, and idealism come together-and why persistence may be the most radical act of all.


"The Wildlife Forensic Academy trains rangers and law-enforcement officers to turn poaching into prosecutions. Here, science gives a voice to justice for endangered species."
- CNN

"When Andro Vos saw a dead rhino, he did not see only tragedy-he saw overlooked evidence. He turns theory into action and gives every trace a voice, speaking for nature''s voiceless victims."
- TEDx

"Wildlife crime takes place in remote areas. There are no witnesses-often forensic evidence is all you have."
- Andro Vos, Founder of the Wildlife Forensic Academy, quoted in The Guardian