Advances in technology and connectivity across the world, combined with rising buying power and demand for illegal wildlife products, have increased the ease of exchange from poacher to consumer. As a result, a largely unregulated online market allows criminals to sell illegally obtained wildlife products across the globe. Purchasing elephant ivory, tiger cubs, and pangolin scales is as easy as click, pay, ship.
Fortunately, the world’s biggest e-commerce, technology, and social media companies have joined forces to shut down online marketplaces for wildlife traffickers. The Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online brings together companies from across the world in partnership with wildlife experts at WWF, TRAFFIC, and IFAW for an industry-wide approach.
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ICOTEQ launch TAGRANGER® system of products
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Community Base, Conservation Dogs, Early Career, East Africa Community, Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Wildlife Crime | 1 month ago | |
| Hi everyone,I'm new here :)I'm doing my thesis of biology bachelor about Rhino poaching. I wanted to ask here if yu have some articles... |
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AI for Conservation, Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Wildlife Crime | 8 months ago | |
| Hello All, My name is Karima Cherif and I work for WildAid Marine and our focus is to end wildlife trafficking in our lifetime. I specialize in marine electronics and work in... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 2 years 9 months ago | |
| Dear Members of Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Greetings from India! Hope you are well and taking good care of yourself... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 2 years 11 months ago | |
| If the actual analysis has been performed, is the dataset available? I had some time during the pandemic and wanted to do something very similar. I e-mailed many different people... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 2 years 11 months ago | |
| Thanks for sharing |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 3 years ago | |
| Since 2018, Biologists without Borders has been gathering data on illegal ivory sales in the U.S. via internet searches and our... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 3 years 8 months ago | |
| Google’s Wildlife Insights, mentioned in another thread, can classify 614 different animal species. It uses the Inception-V4 model as a basis, which is similar to... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 3 years 10 months ago | |
| Hi all! This is a great article summarizing Google's latest AI project: Wildlife Insights! https://... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 3 years 10 months ago | |
| Hi all! Cross-posting a great opportunity to discuss animal re-identification at the upcoming Winter Conference on Applications... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 3 years 10 months ago | |
| Hi everybody! A cool event coming up is the First Americas Regional Conference on the Illegal Trade in Wildlife, which will be... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 4 years 3 months ago | |
| Hi all, our team in the EU is interested in putting together a synthesis paper on the availabie technologies that are out there that can be... |
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5 September 2019 7:54pm
Welcome to the group, @divyar ! Can you please tell us a little more about yourself and your interests in this thread? Thanks!
9 January 2020 7:41pm
Hi all! I hope everyon had a restful break. We have a couple new members to the group! @dalenerusso and @ediminin can you please introduce yourselves here?
9 February 2021 1:57am
Hello All,
My name is Karima Cherif and I work for WildAid Marine and our focus is to end wildlife trafficking in our lifetime. I specialize in marine electronics and work in Gabon, Galapagos, Tanzania, and the Bahamas. In Gabon, we have many small scale fishing canoes that transport illegal bush meat such as pangolin and shark fin. Especially, with COVID the trafficking is increasing as people are becoming more despair to feed their families and cover their basic expenses. I append an article from NBC that discussing a new app that we developed in 2020 called O-Fish (Officer's Fisheries Information Sharing Hub). It is free and we invite MPA managers and agencies to try it.
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10 September 2019 2:27pm
Thank you for the question. This is a perspective paper explaining the framework that does not involve analysis. But we will make code from new analyses soon available. I will share it here then too.
21 November 2020 2:21pm
@ediminin, thank you for your reply! Your paper was a great read. It's been a little over a year since I asked this question, but didn't get a chance to log in to the site again or follow-up. As you mentioned, is the code from new analyses available now? Thanks in advance for any pointers!
12 December 2020 5:29pm
If the actual analysis has been performed, is the dataset available? I had some time during the pandemic and wanted to do something very similar. I e-mailed many different people for a workable dataset but had no luck.
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Thanks for sharing
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ImageNet?
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9 November 2019 10:47pm
Hi, deep learning frameworks like Pytorch and Tensorflow come with state-of-the-art image recognition models (VGG, GoogleLeNet, ResNet, Inception etc.) already pre-trained on ImageNet, so one can just download and use them straight away.
This provides a solid starting point as these models have already learnt how to classify objects really well. Transfer learning can then be used to fine-tune them for a specific task like identifying ivory in photos. This just requires that you tweak the existing model a bit and train it on a smaller custom dataset of the image’s/categories you would like to classify.
Hope that helps!
9 January 2020 7:44pm
Really helpful, @adnortje ! And thanks for listing out some of the latest and greatest image recognition models. Do you know of any programs that are using GoogleLeNet for wildlife image recognition, by chance?
13 January 2020 4:31am
Google’s Wildlife Insights, mentioned in another thread, can classify 614 different animal species.
It uses the Inception-V4 model as a basis, which is similar to GoogLeNet, and tunes it on camera trap images (https://www.wildlifeinsights.org/about-wildlife-insights-ai).
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Hi everyone!
Check out this great write up, featuring ChimpFace, one of our community member Alexandra Russo's projects: https://www.wildlabs.net/resources/case-studies/chimpface-facial-recogni...
ChimpFace is a facial recognition software that is developed from publicly available image datasets, research and chimpanzee organizations. The software identifies individual chimpanzees online that are likely to be trafficked, and tags them for review by wildlife experts. You can visit: https://conservationx.com/project/id/8 for more details. Comment below if you have any questions on this project!
20 March 2019 7:58pm
Hi all, there is someone on the WILDLABS community looking for help with developing a cloud based folder for over 700 elephants. Here's his request. Let me know if you'd like me to put you in touch with him:
I am a volunteer at a large Eastern Cape South African Game reserve.
We have in excess of 700 elephants that are presently being photographed and documented by volunteer game rangers and their family.
We are trying to create a cloud based folder where each elephant that has be photographed can be identified at a later date by the next photograph we take of them. Hopefully when we re-photograph them the software will be able to identify the elephant as one we have photographed/documented earlier.
We are trying to document the siblings, the mother’s and fathers if possible. This will be an ongoing identification of these animals.
Hopefully there is some sort of software which has been developed that can measure tusks, ears (size or shapes) and/or size of tusks etc. Face recognition?
1 April 2019 8:09pm
Hi everyone!
Check out the WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Low-Cost, Open-Source Solutions, which is the first webinar of the series this year! Tanya Berger-Wolf (Co-Founder and Director of Wildbook.org), who also attended our AI workshop, will be a speaker at the event as well as Alasdair Davies (Founder of Arribada Initiative) and David Lang (Co-Founder of OpenROV and Open Explorer). Their talks will be followed by open discussion and community exchange. For more information and to RSVP, please click on the following link: https://www.wildlabs.net/resources/community-announcements/wildlabs-virtual-meetup-low-cost-open-source-solutions
Date & Time: Tuesday, April 9th, 2019
Main Talks: 3:00-4:00pm GMT / 10:00-11:00am EDT
Additional half hour for discussion: 4:00-4:30pm GMT / 11:00-11:30 EDT
The WILDLABS Virtual Meetup Series is a program of webinars for community members and wider partners to discuss emerging topics in conservation technology and leverage existing community groups for virtual exchange. The aim of the series is to bring leading engineers in the tech sector together with conservation practitioners to share information, identify obstacles, and discuss how to best move forward.
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