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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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Our first WILDLABS Editorial Series is now available for download! Read the full Technical Difficulties collection and explore stories of challenges, failures, and lessons learned from the conservation tech community....
19 January 2022
Article
According to a news article published by Yahoo on September 28th, 2021, all Online technology companies in the Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online reported removing or blocking over 11.6 million listings and...
06 December 2021
Article
Technical Difficulties: The Death of Giants
Christie Sampson
In her contribution to the Technical Difficulties Editorial Series, Christie Sampson shares how the devastating experience of losing collared elephants to an unexpected poaching threat lead to an improved understanding...
03 November 2021
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Technical Difficulties: Expect the Unexpected
Colby Loucks
In their three-part interview from our new series Technical Difficulties, Colby Loucks and Eric Becker share the failures they've encountered and learned from throughout six years of working on the WWF-US Wildlife Crime...
27 October 2021
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Technical Difficulties: Cleared for Takeoff
Eric Becker
In their three-part interview from our new series Technical Difficulties, Colby Loucks and Eric Becker share the failures they've encountered and learned from throughout six years of working on the WWF-US Wildlife Crime...
20 October 2021
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Technical Difficulties: Understanding the Realities
Colby Loucks
In their three-part interview from our new series Technical Difficulties, Colby Loucks and Eric Becker share the failures they've encountered and learned from throughout six years of working on the WWF-US Wildlife Crime...
13 October 2021
Article
NParks opens Singapore’s first Centre for Wildlife Forensics
National Parks Board (NParks) - Singapore
Singapore's National Parks Board (NParks) has now opened the country's first Centre for Wildlife Forensics (CWF), and launched a new K9 unit to help uncover illegal wildlife and wildlife products at Singapore’s borders.
20 September 2021
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It Takes a #Tech4Wildlife Community
Ellie Warren
Check out WILDLABS' feature about the importance of building a community in the conservation technology world, shared on the IUCN World Conservation Congress blog to celebrate their upcoming event. Read an excerpt by...
17 May 2021
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Announcing the 2021 CLP Team Award Winners
Conservation Leadership Programme
Our friends at the Conservation Leadership Programme are proud to announce their 2021 CLP Team Award recipients! We'll be featuring interviews with some CLP winners about their projects, the technology they're using,...
17 May 2021
Article
Today we're talking to Paul Bunker, owner of Chiron K9, a canine consultancy company specializing in detection, author of the workbook Imprint Your Detection Dog in 15 Days, a resource aimed at providing tools to get...
07 May 2021
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Protecting Wildlife with Machine Learning
Hack the Poacher
Last year, Tim van Deursen and Thijs Suijten shared their new "Hack the Poacher" system with us, presenting a unique way to detect poachers in real-time within protected national parks. Read on to learn about their next...
29 January 2021
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This month, WILDLABS member Drew Cronin shared the new paper "Empowering rangers through technology and innovation." This collaborative effort included several members of the WILDLABS community and leadership, and...
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| Thanks for the sharing the information. In India as well solar-powered e-bike for forest guards was piloted (See https://www.thebetterindia.com/267799/nit-karnataka-electric-bike-... |
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Wildlife Crime | 1 month 3 weeks ago | |
| I am happy to share my co-authored paper titled “CITES enforcement information sharing—if... |
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Wildlife Crime | 1 month 3 weeks ago | |
| Hello. I have reviewed the questions this am and all the questions on the survey that force a response should have a N/A or "I don't know" option. That... |
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Protected Area Management Tools, Wildlife Crime | 1 month 4 weeks ago | |
| Hi, I've been working on a buoy-mounted underwater acoustic recorder, kinda like what you're talking about. I'll send you a concept note. -harold |
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Wildlife Crime | 2 months 3 weeks ago | |
| Hi Wildlabbers, We're getting ready for tomorrow's episode with Tech Tutor Lily Xu, who'll talk to us about how machine learning can help with conservation... |
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AI for Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools, Wildlife Crime | 8 months 3 weeks ago | |
| Thank you very much! I'll email you now. |
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Wildlife Crime | 10 months 2 weeks ago | |
| Update (April 16): I just open-sourced the code at https://github.com/ecognize-hub/ecognize. I released it under the Apache 2.0 license so it can be used for pretty much anything... |
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Wildlife Crime | 1 year 1 month ago | |
| Dear Members of Wildlife Crime Group, Greetings from India! Hope you are well and taking good care of yourself. :-) Dear Members, If you are a biologist,... |
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Wildlife Crime | 1 year 5 months ago | |
| A panel of 25 speakers from multiple disciplines will offer collective insight and highlight why there is a need to look through numerous lenses to find a collective solution to... |
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Wildlife Crime | 1 year 7 months ago | |
| I am really curious! I will ask my old manager and get back to you. |
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Wildlife Crime | 1 year 9 months ago | |
| Hi Wildlife Crime comm, Just wanted to share this really interesting conversation happening over in the... |
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Wildlife Crime | 1 year 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 | 1 year 11 months ago |
Issues in CITES wildlife enforcement information sharing
2nd April 2022 at 10:42am
Survey for Doctoral Research on Poaching in Protected Areas
11th March 2022 at 08:05pm
28th March 2022 at 07:14pm
Hello. I have reviewed the questions this am and all the questions on the survey that force a response should have a N/A or "I don't know" option. That said, there are still some bugs that I have found with the survey. Please email me at [email protected] if you encounter any more issues and I will be happy to address them promptly. Thank you very much for taking the time to complete the survey.
Wendy
Anti-poaching CCTV and boat sensor
21st February 2022 at 02:02am
5th March 2022 at 06:06am
Hi,
I've been working on a buoy-mounted underwater acoustic recorder, kinda like what you're talking about. I'll send you a concept note.
-harold
Download Now: The Technical Difficulties Editorial Series
WILDLABS Team
19th January 2022 at 12:00am
Tech Companies Block More than 11.6 Million Transactions for Endangered Wildlife Online
Yahoo
6th December 2021 at 12:00am
Technical Difficulties: The Death of Giants
Christie Sampson
3rd November 2021 at 12:00am
Technical Difficulties: Expect the Unexpected
Colby Loucks
27th October 2021 at 12:00am
Technical Difficulties: Cleared for Takeoff
Eric Becker
20th October 2021 at 12:00am
Technical Difficulties: Understanding the Realities
Colby Loucks
13th October 2021 at 12:00am
NParks opens Singapore’s first Centre for Wildlife Forensics
National Parks Board (NParks) - Singapore
20th September 2021 at 12:00am
Tech Tutors: How do I use AI to fight wildlife crime?
1st September 2021 at 10:59pm
Looking for - Intelligence Database Software
14th June 2021 at 11:01am
22nd June 2021 at 01:48am
Hi Phil,
Thank you very much! I had not considered them but they are a viable option for sure! The biggest concern would be the security of storing sensitive information online via AWS (or alternative) but lets see if there is a solution.
I'll dig around and come back to you on it! Have a great day
8th July 2021 at 08:31am
Hi Dexter
We have a bunch of tools for you guys at Natual-solutions.eu ...
Ave a look at https://geonature.fr/ its alll open source, we can translate it all for you if needed ...
Please fell free to email us at
9th July 2021 at 12:56am
Thank you very much! I'll email you now.
Announcing the 2021 CLP Team Award Winners
Conservation Leadership Programme
17th May 2021 at 12:00am
It Takes a #Tech4Wildlife Community
Ellie Warren
17th May 2021 at 12:00am
Getting Started with Conservation Dogs: An Interview with Paul Bunker
Paul Bunker
7th May 2021 at 12:00am
26th March 2022 at 10:57am
I tried to fill it out but it's not letting me finish because all the questions are set to be required? Some of them are not relevant or the info is unknown to me, but not all the questions have this as an answer option. Just something to consider FYI