Wildlife crime is one of the greatest challenges facing conservation, and one of the conservation tech world's biggest areas of innovation. With new ideas and solutions constantly being put forth to track and protect species targeted by poachers, manage protected areas and support rangers, and combat the growing online market for illegal wildlife products, the engineers and conservationists working to solve wildlife crime's many challenges rely on tools like machine learning, biologging, camera traps, acoustic monitoring, drones, mobile apps, and more.
This wide variety of overlapping technology makes our Wildlife Crime group a potential melting pot for many of our other communities, and makes it an especially exciting place to find collaborators working in different tech spheres to meet a common goal. Whether you're a camera trap expert looking for information on thermal vision to spot potential poachers, a machine learning expert with the skills to analyze acoustic data for gunshots, or a protected area manager seeking the latest integrated mobile tools, this group can connect you with the right members of our community!
Below, you'll find WILDLABS resources and conversations to help you understand how different technologies are being put to work in the fight against wildlife crime, and what conservation tech practitioners need for these tools to be effective.
Three Tutorials and Videos for Beginners:
- How do I use AI to fight wildlife crime? | Lily Xu, Tech Tutors
- WWF Wildlife Crime Technology Project | Eric Becker, Virtual Meetups
- SmartParks | Laurens de Groot, Virtual Meetups
Three Forum Threads for Beginners:
- Snare detection technologies | Rachel Kramer
- Tools for conservation management | Chris Muashekele
- Looking for Intelligence Database Software | Dexter Oelrichs
Three Articles for Beginners:
- Using AIS data to investigate the world's fishing ports, Max Schofield
- How do Wildlife Crime Experts view Remote Sensing Technologies used to Combat Illegal Wildlife Crime?, Isla Duporge
- Metal Detecting Sensors for Anti-Poaching, Sam Seccombe
Join this group now to get to know our community and start discussing solutions and ideas together!
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I am a forensic geneticist with a long term interest in developing and applying DNA markers to combat wildlife crime. Currently developing and validating STRs for raptors and rapid on-site species ID using the ONT MinION portable sequencer.
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Godfrey Nyangaresi, a dedicated Protection Manager with 12+ years of wildlife conservation experience. Skilled in technologies, administration, and law enforcement, he leads protection efforts at STEP, ensuring the sustainable conservation of elephants in southern Tanzania.
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Dr. Kadambari Devarajan is an engineer-turned-ecologist working on biodiversity monitoring. (Website - http://kadambarid.in/)
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| Poacher alert dataset https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9qkd5vrU3_fUXJTNk1wM2tpSGs/view?usp=sharing This dataset... |
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Wildlife Crime | 7 years 7 months ago | |
| Is anyone else thinking of putting in a proposal, I'm looking for collaborators? Doug |
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Wildlife Crime | 7 years 7 months ago | |
| If you know you want to attend and just want to get straight to getting your tickets, here are some easy links for registration: Chicago San Diego London New Delhi... |
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Wildlife Crime | 7 years 8 months ago | |
| Friends and fellow researchers in the WILDLABS community I would like to hear your valuable opinions on the doctoral research project I am... |
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Wildlife Crime | 7 years 10 months ago | |
| @victoria from Global Trees Campaign just flagged an event for us over on twitter that might be of interest to this thread in particular. Starting in jus ta few hours, the... |
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Wildlife Crime | 7 years 11 months ago | |
| Hi Anthony, Isla's list is very comprehensive. The Vulcan Domain Awareness System (DAS) started at LEWA in Kenya where our own JIGZAW web based intelligence database and... |
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Wildlife Crime | 7 years 11 months ago | |
| Hi dave FLIR is the leading US company in thermal industry, most of their product is for industry and Militry. The price is from $6000+. When i check... |
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Wildlife Crime | 7 years 11 months ago | |
| The Wildlife Consumer Behaviour Change Community of Practice has a new newsletter that is packed with the latest behaviour change... |
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Wildlife Crime | 8 years ago | |
| Thanks very much for cross-posting this update, @Jan+Kees - where are you field testing the SERVAL-sensor? |
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Wildlife Crime | 8 years ago | |
| Just to clarify, you mean illegal owners of exotic animals or legal owners? I'm assuming illegal because you reference wildlife crime, but in a lot of countries there are... |
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Wildlife Crime | 8 years ago | |
| Post-doctoral Researcher or PhD student with a background in data/computer science to work with me on issues around illegal... |
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Wildlife Crime | 8 years 1 month ago | |
| Thanks, @Drue+Freeman . You raise excellent points, here. In my experience with projects that use protected area monitoring and management software such as the... |
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Wildlife Crime | 8 years 1 month ago |
