discussion / Emerging Tech  / 14 July 2016

Pokemon Go concepts for wildlife conservation

We've been thinking this way for a while, but nice to see someone else write about it with some great ideas:

https://medium.com/@jordan.shapiro/real-life-pok%C3%A9mon-8273b27cd03c#.v7zbdsak2




Hi Gautam, 

Really interesting idea, thanks for sharing the post. Although this isn't quite the expansive action plan identified in the piece, it reminded me of the #pokeblitz hashtag that's sprung up in parallel with the Pokemon Go frenzy. If you find an actual creature while playing #PokemonGO, you can tweet pic with #PokeBlitz & experts will help you identify it! It seems to me to be a nice first step for 'making pokemon go real'. 

Cheers, 

Steph

 

'Pokémon-Go players could capture 400 years of wildlife sightings in 6 days' - what an incredible figure! Like you, @mygshah , and Jordan, Dr Tom August has also been thinking about how Pokemon go could be applied to conservation:

http://www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-media/blogs/pok%C3%A9mon-go-players-could-capture-400-years-wildlife-sightings-6-days