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!
Header photo: © Frank af Petersens/Save the Elephants
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| Hi All, I am a natural history producer and I am looking for current lion relocation projects. If anyone knows of anyone working... |
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Wildlife Crime | 5 years 10 months ago | |
| 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... |
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Wildlife Crime | 5 years 11 months ago | |
| Hey everyone, Thanks for your interest in our virtual meetup special, Scaling technology solutions to tackle the illegal wildlife trade... |
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Wildlife Crime | 6 years 2 months ago | |
| 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... |
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Wildlife Crime | 6 years 6 months ago | |
| In positive news from China, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA) has teamed up with Tencent to combat IWT online... |
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Wildlife Crime | 6 years 7 months ago | |
| Hi, I went to this workshop, led by Sonia O'Connor and James Barrett, and I would recommend it. Both Sonia and James have many years of experience... |
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Wildlife Crime | 6 years 9 months ago | |
| Upcoming webinar session on Pangolin Trade in China will be delivered TOMORROW at 9 AM BST/ 3 PM ICT by Yifu Wang from the University of... |
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Wildlife Crime | 6 years 11 months ago | |
| Interested in learning about conservation criminology? See the attached details on a fall 2018 3-credit graduate-level online course and... |
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Wildlife Crime | 6 years 11 months ago | |
| Hi Maike! I used ORA Pro which was developed by Carnegie Mellon University. The 'lite' version is free to use and similar to IBM - http://www.casos.cs.... |
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Wildlife Crime | 6 years 11 months ago | |
| Hello, Does anyone have contact information for SMART trainers that would be itnerested in a short term consultancy for the FFI Liberia... |
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Wildlife Crime | 7 years ago | |
| On Wednesday (25th July) the Director of Forensic Services at the City of London Police, Tracy Alexander, will be giving a talk titled... |
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Wildlife Crime | 7 years ago | |
| Due to the magnitude and complexity of the Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT), conservationists are often only able to fight crises on the ground... |
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Wildlife Crime | 7 years 4 months ago |
