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discussion / Wildlife Crime  / 23 January 2025

Poaching data request

Martina Fernando

Martina Fernando

I'm a PhD student and my research focuses on analyzing patterns in mammals poaching occurrences.
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Hi everyone!

My name is Martina Fernando, and I am a PhD student in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology at Sapienza University of Rome. For my PhD project I aim to identify poaching hotspots and analyze the impact of these activities on mammal populations; but to achieve this, I need access to high-quality, spatially explicit data on poaching events (i.e., with geographic coordinates, species involved, and other relevant details).
I am reaching out to you all to ask collaboration in accessing such data. If you or your organization collects data on poaching events, I would be immensely grateful if you would consider sharing it for academic research purposes. I will treat all data with utmost confidentiality and adhere to any data-sharing agreements or conditions you might require.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you have data to share or would like more information about my project.

Thank you!!



Georg Strunck
@georg_strunck  | he/him
Delft University of Technology
SPOTS | Strategic Protection Of Threatened Species
MSc Student in Aerospace/Robotics @TU_Delft | Engineer & Project Manager @StrategicProtectionOfThreatenedSpecies (SPOTS) | Robotics Engineer @BiodivX with @ETH Zürich for the xPrize rainforest competition
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7 February 2025 4:00pm

Hi,

I could only look into the poaching events of one specific game reserve in South Africa. If those numbers would be of interest, please let me know.
Another quite accurate spatial map of rhino poaching is provided on the oxpecker website for the southern African countries.

All the best,
Georg

Alex Rood
@alexrood  | she/her
WILDLABS
World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
I'm the WILDLABS Communications and Community Management Associate Specialist at WWF-US
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10 February 2025 5:26pm

@Marti09 might be worth reaching out to the organization listed here? 

https://wildlabs.net/discussion/rhino-poaching-statistics-south-africa
Sarah Stoner
@Sarah_Stoner  | She/her
Intelligence Lead @Go Insight. Intelligence professional, advocating for the use of intelligence and analysis to combat international wildlife trafficking. 

12 February 2025 12:37pm

Hi Martina, I am sure you are aware but if not both EIA and TRAFFIC have poaching data that can be downloaded - which might be of use to you.