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Wildlife crime is a complicated challenge, so it's no wonder that the conservation technology community has explored solutions with every type of technology, all with the aim of predicting, preventing, and stopping crimes like poaching, illegal logging and fishing, and the sale of animal products like ivory. Join our Wildlife Crime group to meet others who are working on potential solutions to this global challenge and to add your own expertise to the conversation! 

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Technical Difficulties: Expect the Unexpected

Eric Becker and 1 more

27 October 2021 12:00am

In their three-part interview from our new series Technical Difficulties, Colby Loucks and Eric Becker share the failures they've encountered and learned from throughout six years of working on the WWF-US Wildlife Crime...

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Technical Difficulties: Cleared for Takeoff

Eric Becker and 1 more

20 October 2021 12:00am

In their three-part interview from our new series Technical Difficulties, Colby Loucks and Eric Becker share the failures they've encountered and learned from throughout six years of working on the WWF-US Wildlife Crime...

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Looking for - Intelligence Database Software

Dexter_Rhino_Force

14 June 2021 11:01am

I work for an anti-poaching organization (https://rhino-force.org/) with a reasonably successful intelligence arm that makes around ~70 wildlife-related arrests each year. We are...

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Dexter_Rhino_Force

22 June 2021 1:48am

Hi Phil,

Thank you very much! I had not considered them but they are a viable option for sure! The biggest concern would be the security of storing sensitive information online via AWS (or alternative) but lets see if there is a solution. 

I'll dig around and come back to you on it! Have a great day

olivier rovellotti

8 July 2021 8:31am

Hi Dexter 

We have a bunch of tools for you guys at Natual-solutions.eu  ...

Ave a look at https://geonature.fr/ its alll open source, we can translate it all for you if needed ...

Please fell free to email us at 

contact@natural-solutions.eu

 

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It Takes a #Tech4Wildlife Community

Ellie Warren

17 May 2021 12:00am

Check out WILDLABS' feature about the importance of building a community in the conservation technology world, shared on the IUCN World Conservation Congress blog to celebrate their upcoming event. Read an excerpt by...

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Ecognize: A platform for environmental and conservation issue reporting

ecognize

8 April 2021 11:47pm

(I crossposted this thread from the "Software and Mobile Apps" subforum, original here, because it fits into this subforum too - if a moderator disagrees, feel free to...

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ecognize

16 April 2021 10:52pm

Update (April 16): I just open-sourced the code at https://github.com/ecognize-hub/ecognize. I released it under the Apache 2.0 license so it can be used for pretty much anything, including commercial use.

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How do I strategically allocate drones for conservation?

WILDLABS Team

8 February 2021 12:00am

Our tenth and final Tech Tutor of Season 2 is Harvard University PhD candidate, Elizabeth Bondi, who tackled the question, "How do I strategically allocate drones for conservation?". Watch it on the WILDLABS Youtube...

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Protecting Wildlife with Machine Learning

Ellie Warren

29 January 2021 12:00am

Last year, Tim van Deursen and Thijs Suijten shared their new "Hack the Poacher" system with us, presenting a unique way to detect poachers in real-time within protected national parks. Read on to learn about their...

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Webinar: Getting Started With SMART

The SMART Partnership

11 November 2020 12:00am

Want to learn more about how SMART conservation tools help with protected area management around the world? Check out this free webinar from SMART on Wednesday, 18th November at 9 AM GMT to learn about their...

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Hackathon Opportunity: Vaquita Hacks

WILDLABS Team

10 November 2020 12:00am

Do you have innovative #tech4wildlife ideas that could save one of the most endangered species on earth from extinction? Apply now to join Vaquita Hack, a hackathon for students and early career conservationists!  This...

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Designing a Camera Mount with FLIR and WWF

ARosen

24 August 2020 12:00am

Today, WWF conservation engineering intern Ashley Rosen shares insight into the process of redesigning a camera mount for FLIR thermal cameras used by rangers in the fight against poaching. Ashley's design will become a...

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Challenge: ElephantEdge

Smart Parks

11 August 2020 12:00am

Protecting elephants from conservation's most pressing issues like poaching and human-wildlife conflict requires big, bold, and innovative solutions. Hackster.io, Smart Parks, Edge Impulse, Microsoft, and several other...

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Metal Detecting Sensors for Anti-Poaching

Sam Seccombe

10 August 2020 12:00am

Since 2016, ZSL’s Instant Detect team have been working on improving metal detecting sensors for anti-poaching. The team believe that using metal detecting sensors will provide a highly targeted detection of potential...

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Recognising illegally-traded animal body parts

Debbie Martyr

18 June 2020 7:32pm

Greetings all, after working for many years in Sumatra, I know that tackling the illegal wildlife trade is hugely complicated and is made more given that items in trade may...

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Maia Adar

31 July 2020 2:30pm

Hi Sara and Debbie,

Just wanted to chime in here since I actually worked on this exact project several years ago when I was an intern at WWF.

We used scans from a near infrared spectrometer to classify ivory. The model was able to distinguish between fake and real ivory, including even distinguishing between elephant ivory and mammoth ivory. My manager for the internship, Rachel Kramer, had done all the hard work of collecting hundreds of scans of ivory samples from various museum collections and ivory that had been seized.

I am happy to share more details about the project if you are interested. Unfortunately I did not get to see it through because I was only working there for one summer three years ago, but I now work as a data scientist and so I have a lot more experience with this type of modeling. 

Maia Adar

31 July 2020 5:28pm

I am really curious! I will ask my old manager and get back to you.

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Tech4Wildlife News: SMART Mobile

SMART

23 June 2020 12:00am

SMART is excited to showcase the features of their new data collection solution, SMART Mobile! Built around the specific needs of the SMART user community, this streamlined mobile tool allows staff in protected areas to...

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We want to provide tracking and surveillance tech FOC to catch poachers.

Richard

14 October 2019 3:22pm

I work for a UK company that makes (amongst other things) tracking and surveillance technology. Usually we sell this technology to law enforcement and other agencies that...

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Saverio Di Sensi

14 October 2019 11:57pm


I RUN THE GLOBAL WILDLIFE WARRIORS NETWORK COMPRISED OF 30 ONLINE LOCATIONS IN 30 COUNTRIES WITH A LARGE TEAM OF ADMINISTRATORS. WE ALSO HAVE ADMINS THAT ARE ANTI-POACHING RANGERS IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF AFRICA. LAST YEAR GWW REACHED OVER 5,000,000 PEOPLE. THAT IS ALWAYS GWW'S MAIN GOAL, OUTREACH! AS WE BELIEVE THAT THIS WAR TO PROTECT WILDLIFE WILL BE WON ONCE THE CREED OF CONSERVATION REACHES CRITICAL MASS GLOBALLY 

WolfStinnes

21 April 2020 11:11am

Hello MH, can we get into contact what edge devices (camera traps, CCTV or other sensing) you might have? we are working on the frontline of technology as a force mutliplier for ant-poaching units mostly in southern africa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOWW0LwKc0g 

thank you and regards

Wolf

Debbie Martyr

17 June 2020 3:55pm

Hi Richard, I've been working with Kerinci Seblat National Park in Sumatra for the  better part of 20 years focusing primarily to countering tiger and other wildlife poaching and IWT in/around one of the largest national parks in Asia, might be good to talk, at very least you would have a better idea of some of the issues our ranger teams face. 

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Innovator Interview: Hack the Poacher

WILDLABS Team

4 June 2020 12:00am

Conservation technology largely consists of two categories: tools to monitor and study wildlife and their habitats, and solutions to mitigate or prevent negative human impacts. The fight against poaching in particular...

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WILDLABS Tech Hub: WWF PandaSat

WILDLABS Team

13 April 2020 12:00am

At the 2018 London Illegal Wildlife Trade Conference, we announced the WILDLABS Tech Hub, an accelerator programme created to support the development and scaling of groundbreaking technological solutions addressing the ...

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