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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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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 | 1 year 3 months ago | |
Dear Members of Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Greetings from India! Hope you are well and taking good care of yourself. :-) Dear Members, If you are a... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 1 year 5 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 | 1 year 5 months ago | |
Thanks for sharing |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 1 year 6 months ago | |
Since 2018, Biologists without Borders has been gathering data on illegal ivory sales in the U.S. via internet searches and our free mobile app (i of the Elephant; that... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 2 years 2 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 | 2 years 4 months ago | |
Hi all! This is a great article summarizing Google's latest AI project: Wildlife Insights! https://artificialintelligence-news.com/2019/12/18/google-ai-project-... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 2 years 4 months ago | |
Hi all! Cross-posting a great opportunity to discuss animal re-identification at the upcoming Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV ’20) in... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 2 years 4 months ago | |
Hi everybody! A cool event coming up is the First Americas Regional Conference on the Illegal Trade in Wildlife, which will be hosted by the Government of Peru ... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 2 years 8 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 used by customs officials to better... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 2 years 8 months ago | |
Hi all, WILDLABS will be holding a virtual meet up next Wed. 6/19. Speakers include: - Jason Pearson, Founder of TRUTH Studio - Camellia Williams, Lead Writer at... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 2 years 11 months ago | |
Hi everybody! On 6 September 2019, the Bat Conservation Trust will be hosting a Conservation and Technology Conference... |
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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online | 2 years 11 months ago |
Survey for Wildlife Conservation: Do We Need Hand of Technology?
27th December 2020 at 03:44pm
2nd Anniversary of the Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online
23rd March 2020 at 06:17pm
Illegal Ivory Sales on the Internet App
22nd March 2020 at 10:52pm
Wildlife Insights - Google's latest AI project!
10th January 2020 at 09:57pm
[ARCHIVED] Workshop on Deep Learning Methods and Applications for Animal Re-Identification at WACV2020 Conference!
9th January 2020 at 07:48pm
ImageNet?
31st October 2019 at 06:36pm
9th November 2019 at 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!
9th January 2020 at 07:44pm
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?
13th January 2020 at 04:31am
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).
[ARCHIVED] Upcoming Event: First Americas Regional Conference on the Illegal Trade in Wildlife
5th September 2019 at 07:56pm
Question: applicable AI / ML technologies for customs officials!
5th September 2019 at 07:41pm
WILDLABS Virtual Meet up 6/19: Creative Approaches to Data-Driven Storytelling
13th June 2019 at 03:57pm
[ARCHIVED] Upcoming Event: Conservation & Technology Conference
28th May 2019 at 07:28pm
Call for papers for Data Mining and AI For Conservation Workshop at KDD2019
1st May 2019 at 02:28pm
Machine learning to help fight illegal wildlife trade on social media
25th April 2019 at 07:21pm
10th September 2019 at 02:27pm
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.
21st November 2020 at 02:21pm
@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!
12th December 2020 at 05:29pm
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.
New projects and publications: Discussion
20th March 2019 at 07:35pm
20th March 2019 at 07:50pm
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!
20th March 2019 at 07:58pm
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?
1st April 2019 at 08:09pm
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.
New trends and behaviors: Discussion
10th December 2018 at 02:22pm
Upcoming events
10th December 2018 at 02:21pm
Who’s who - Introduce yourself!
7th December 2018 at 04:42pm
5th September 2019 at 07:54pm
Welcome to the group, @divyar ! Can you please tell us a little more about yourself and your interests in this thread? Thanks!
9th January 2020 at 07:41pm
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?
9th February 2021 at 01:57am
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.
14th November 2020 at 01:19am
Thanks for sharing