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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| Dear Members of Wildlife Crime Group, Greetings from India! Hope you are well and taking good care of yourself. :-) ... |
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| A panel of 25 speakers from multiple disciplines will offer collective insight and highlight why there is a need to look through numerous... |
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Wildlife Crime | 4 years 7 months ago | |
| I am really curious! I will ask my old manager and get back to you. |
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Wildlife Crime | 4 years 9 months ago | |
| Hi Wildlife Crime comm, Just wanted to share this really interesting conversation happening over in the FIT group: Thinking Outside... |
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Wildlife Crime | 4 years 10 months ago | |
| 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... |
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Wildlife Crime | 4 years 11 months ago | |
| The Global Wildlife Program (GWP) is a partnership on Wildlife Conservation and Crime Prevention for Sustainable Development led by the... |
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Wildlife Crime | 4 years 11 months ago | |
| I am writing a series of articles for Utrecht University (NL) about how synthetic biology, cloning, genetic modification and habitat... |
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Wildlife Crime | 5 years 2 months ago | |
| 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... |
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Wildlife Crime | 5 years 6 months ago | |
| 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 7 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 9 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 | 5 years 11 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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