Rachel Nuwer is an award-winning science journalist who makes prolific contributions to sources like the New York Times, Nat Geo, Audubon, and more. I first met Rachel while she was doing research for an excellent investigative piece called The Strange and Dangerous World of America’s Big Cat People (available on longreads.com), and subsequent chats leading up to her New York Times article, Why Tiger King is Not Blackfish for Cats, and her podcast with Outside Magazine journalist, Peter Frick-Wright called Cat People. Rachel’s book, Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking, is yet another of her contributions to science journalism and she is part of the growing groundswell of reputable journalists who are calling out Tiger King for the lack of apparent integrity with which it was made.