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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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WILDLABS Tech Hub: Poreprint

WILDLABS Team

26 March 2020 12:00am

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

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Online Workshop: Conservation Technology

Hack the Poacher

23 March 2020 12:00am

On Friday, March 27th, meet the Hack the Poacher team in this free online webinar to discuss the latest innovations in conservation technology. This interactive event offers the opportunity to make connections in the...

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Call for Nominations: Tusk Conservation Awards

Tusk

3 March 2020 12:00am

The 2020 Tusk Awards are now accepting nominations of outstanding individuals who have made a significant impact on conservation in Africa. These nominations offer the rare and exciting opportunity to honor your peers...

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12 Nov: Tech-crime workshops

Sarah Gluszek

4 September 2019 12:08pm

The American Society of Criminology (ASC) is hosting it's next annual conference in San Francisco this November. Just before the conference, there will be 3 tech-related...

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sjc07

19 November 2019 1:05pm

Hi - how can I find out about future meetups please?

Sarah Gluszek

22 November 2019 3:14pm

The ASC conference happens annually, the next one will be in Washington DC over the 18-21 November 2020. Details for the pre-conference workshops are only e-mailed a few months in advance to conference participants. I won't be attending next year, otherwise I would post any opportunities that come up on here. You could e-mail the organiser (Susan Case; asc@asc41.com) next September 2020 to see if there are any tech-related workshops planned.

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Lion Relocation Projects

Natalie Coles

17 October 2019 11:13am

Hi All,  I am a natural history producer and I am looking for current lion relocation projects. If anyone knows of anyone working within this area please do let me know....

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Instant Detect 2.0 emerges

Sam Seccombe

3 September 2019 12:00am

In the past six months Instant Detect 2.0 has physically emerged, with the first prototype systems built and ready for testing at the start of April. The ZSL team is now well into their optimisation and hardening phase...

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Kaarthika Chandran

16 November 2023 1:11am

I am doing a research project on rhino poaching at Kruger National Park. I was impressed with the idea of Instant Detect 2.0. I do not know the cost involved with installing that...
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Which NGOs are keeping detailed track of the forest-product supply chain?

Lev Birman

11 July 2019 8:21pm

Hi folks, I'm interested in developing tools to combat deforestation (to address biodiversity loss) and am trying to understand the forest-product supply chain, as well as...

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Tom Walker

22 August 2019 5:06pm

Hi Liev,

I'm not an expert on this stuff, but from the sound of it, your answer will depend on what you're looking to focus on.

By 'illegal', do you mean 'obtained a contract through corrupt means', 'failing to adhere to an existing contract in terms of engagement with a community' or 'linked to human rights allegations in terms of treating workers'?

By 'unsustainable', do you mean 'responsible for polluting the local area', 'involved in activities like palm oil production that might be globally unsustainable', or 'failing to provide employment opportunities to local residents'?

Or is the answer 'all of the above'?

I've added a few tools below that I've come across, all of which have a lot of information about various aspects of the questions you mentioned. Hope it helps!

  • https://ejatlas.org/
  • https://landmatrix.org/
  • https://resourcecontracts.org/ and https://resourceprojects.org/
  • https://openlandcontracts.org/
  • https://opendevelopmentmekong.net/search/data/
  • https://rspo.org/certification/search-for-certified-growers
  • https://open.sourcemap.com/
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Tech In the Wild: Where technology meets conservation

Fauna & Flora

22 August 2019 12:00am

Join FFI on Wednesday 25 September for our AGM and a special presentation aiming to explore the range of tech projects we currently engage in, and a look to the future to see what technological advances could mean for...

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AI for Earth Innovation Grant (extended)

Microsoft

4 June 2019 12:00am

To further their missions, LDF and Microsoft are collaborating on the AI for Earth innovation grant to support applicants in creating and deploying open source machine learning models, algorithms, and data sets that...

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WILDLABS TECH HUB Showcase

WILDLABS Team

17 May 2019 12:00am

Join us at the Tech Hub Showcase event ot hear how our winners are using technology to scale their solutions to the illegal wildlife trade. The event will take place at Digital Catapult, 101 Euston Road, London, on the...

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Meet the WILDLABS TECH HUB Winners

WILDLABS Team

13 May 2019 12:00am

In February, we released an open call for the WILDLABS TECH HUB, offering 3 months of support for solutions using technolgy to tackle the illegal wildlife trade. We were overwhelmed by an incredible 37 submissions,...

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Tech Hub open call: Tech to end wildlife crime

Joe Nash

7 February 2019 2:53pm

Hey all, We're very excited today to open applications for the WILDLABS Tech Hub. The Tech Hub will offer a 3 month programme to support tech for wildlife...

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Joachim Neff

11 February 2019 9:30am

Hello Nik
I am still very much learning about startups and building a business but the bottom line is: whatever your product or service, there need to be customers for it who are happy to pay the price you ask for. This is one of the details you have to think about thoroughly when writing a business plan. This in turn forces you to really understand your customer and their particular needs so that you can make sure your product or service is meeting these - not just your own ideas of what a great product should look like.
It does not matter whether you are selling to the public, private or third sector, whether it is a luxury item or something to "improve the public good". Your product/service needs to be affordable by the user and do the job they require it to do. The business plan forces you to work out these details.

To many engineers like myself this kind of work compares poorly to working on the tech side of a soution. But it is a VERY useful exercise and it can actually be fun once you get into it. Having said that, the infamous business plan is also often a document that is created at great effort for someone else (like a funding provider) and then filed, forgotten and never updated. A wasted effort really.
To get started try something much more visual like drawing up a 'Business Model Canvas' and 'Value Proposition Canvas' (see https://www.strategyzer.com/ ). Consider it a precursor to the business plan and "something you can pin on your office wall" to keep it updated more easily. There are plenty of useful short tutorials on the above website (just need to register for free) to explain the concept. It is making a lot of sense and I found it very useful in getting the business basics sorted out.

Good luck,
Joachim

Joe Nash

15 February 2019 12:48pm

Thanks for the wonderful answer to Nik's query, Joachim! I think you covered everything, but to put a cap on it: for our good to make a long term impact, it has to survive the long term. That means we'll have to have a plan for long-term sustainability. That doesn't necessarily mean selling expensive licenses, but it does mean knowing your costs, and having an idea of how you'll offset them. Hence a business plan.

 

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News from around the world

Sarah Gluszek

21 December 2018 9:28am

In positive news from China, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA) has teamed up with Tencent to combat IWT online, by introducing crime reporting tools...

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WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Big Data in Conservation

WILDLABS Team

27 November 2018 12:00am

The third and final event in Season One of the WILDLABS Virtual Meetup Series was on Big Data in Conservation. The recording is now available to watch, along with notes that highlight the key takeaways from the talks...

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