Creating a New Nonprofit Outlet to Investigate Wildlife Crime

Rachael Bale is co-founder of Wildlife Investigative Reporters & Editors (WIRE) WIRE is a nonprofit investigative journalism outlet focused on wildlife crime and environmental exploitation.

Bale's reporting has earned her two Livingston Award nominations and a reputation for shedding light on some of the most pressing and underreported environmental crimes of our time.

WIRE aims to produce two major investigations per year, partnering with media outlets like Rolling Stone .

WIRE is a nonprofit that focuses on in-depth investigative journalism.

WIRE has one investigation underway, which is partially funded, and has several proposals for its next investigations.

The nonprofit is trying to find a way to pay freelancers an actual living wage for the work they do.

Maurice Oniang’o is a freelance multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker based in Nairobi , Kenya .

He is a National Geographic Explorer recipient, and has won awards from the Media Council of Kenya , a Spotlight Documentary Film Award, and a Thomson Foundation Young Journalist of the Year award.

He says he wants to live in a world where people report on wildlife because they care about wildlife in and of itself.