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Wildlife crime is a complicated challenge, so it's no wonder that the conservation technology community has explored solutions with every type of technology, all with the aim of predicting, preventing, and stopping crimes like poaching, illegal logging and fishing, and the sale of animal products like ivory. Join our Wildlife Crime group to meet others who are working on potential solutions to this global challenge and to add your own expertise to the conversation! 

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Southeast Asia Counter Wildlife Crime Program Coordinator

Panthera

31 May 2023 1:00pm

Panthera’s Counter Wildlife Crime (CWC) program is one of five thematic, cross-regional programs that sit within its Conservation Science (CS) division. This role acts as a ‘force multiplier’ for the global experts,...

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EarthRanger User Conference

Jordan Steward

27 April 2023 5:52am

Back for its 8th year, don't miss this year's premier global annual event where conservation practitioners from around the world convene to discuss important challenges and solutions

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Artificial Intelligence and Conservation with Lily Xu

Ellie Warren

26 April 2023 8:41pm

WWF's recent Fuller Seminar Series on Artificial Intelligence and Conservation featured some familiar faces from the WILDLABS community, including our past Tech Tutor Lily Xu! Check out her presentation talking about AI-based causal reasoning and how it can be applied to conservation challenges.

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Anti-poaching tech vulnerable to cyber attacks, study finds | ITWeb

Stephanie O'Donnell

26 April 2023 2:48pm

While tech deployment has often been hailed for playing a critical role in the fight against poaching, these technologies bring with them the risk of cyber attacks. This is based on a study conducted by Orange Cyberdefense Academy’s Christelle Steyn, as part of her thesis titled: “Towards a Critical Review of Cybersecurity Risks in Anti-Poaching Systems in South Africa”.

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Congo Basin activity?

Chris Nicholas

30 March 2023 9:14pm

greetings - I am helping coordinate a visit by the incoming director of national parks for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in mid-late June. He is very interested to...

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chris anderson

25 April 2023 5:08pm

greetings!

 

i sent you a PM regarding this, feel free to contact me however is most convenient for you -

 

regards,

chris 

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Drones for IUU (illegal fishing activities & vessel monitoring)

Adam Roberts

20 March 2023 6:00am

Hi, new to Wildlabs and happy to have found itI am currently working on drone design (fixed wing), for the purpose of monitoring illegal fishing vessels. This will be done via...

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Adam Roberts

11 April 2023 5:48am

Hi Frank! Thanks so much for your reply. Yes I have been looking into the same sort of workflow as with camera traps etc and seem to be getting somewhere (although am yet to have my own data set with which to check!). 

Yes, with the transponder issue, actually NONE of the boats here have them! There has been a push to get boats to install them further down the coast, but it was marred by the usual corruption and forceless enforcement. So everything will be visual, rather than working on any signal given out by the boats themselves. I am looking into ai programs that can analyse footage and as you say, it can be done with species so I see no reason it cannot be done with vessels given the parameters to look for

 

Frank van der Most

14 April 2023 12:57am

Seeing the pictures that @lmccaskill uploaded got my brain storming, so to say. Are you working with similar small boats? I was assuming bigger fishing ships that are registered somewhere. If the boats are not registered and there are no existing photos of them, and you want to identify the individual boats, you'll need to build your own catalogue to train an AI.

However / in addition, if the boats have written text on them with a name or a code or number, like in the pictures, then it should be ridiculously easy to identify boats. No AI needed. I discovered recently that my laptop has started showing find results based on text in photos. If different boats are of the same model, again like in the pictures, then there is nothing else left than what is written on them ... well, perhaps the color scheme.

... or perhaps face recognition if the image quality allows it. But then you'll be at square 1 again with training an AI.

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Rhino horns in medicine 

matilde stella

2 April 2023 2:22pm

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 about Lab data of the inefficiency of the...

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Operation Pangolin launches to save world's most trafficked wild mammal

Alasdair Davies

16 February 2023 7:51pm

Researchers and conservationists are embarking on a bold initiative to save the world's most trafficked wild mammal — the pangolin

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Lilian Musembei

17 February 2023 1:50am

This is an amazing project. I'm eager to learn the conservation solutions from the projects that can be transferred to other species. We need this in Kenya, our biodiversity is...
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Ceres Wild Rhino application 

Kim Lane

22 August 2022 1:29am

An update on Ceres Tags products that are being used in conservation 

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Kim Lane

29 September 2022 4:05am

Some updates and a news report on the Malilangwe Trust application of devices; Ceres Trace and Ceres Wild
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A Triphibian Surveillance Vehicle

Ayush Jamdar

9 July 2022 2:23pm

Hey all!I am Ayush, a core team member of my school's Robotics Club (Center For Innovation, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras). There is one project - The Triphibian - we are...

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Hello there

Dannii

1 July 2022 5:00pm

Hi everyone, I'm new here! I'm a UX designer and researcher, and an animal lover. Excited to be part of Conservation Tech here at WildLabs! Feel free to reach out to me for...

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Solar-powered anti-poaching motorbikes

Sarah Gluszek

15 February 2021 12:55pm

CAKE (a Swedish off-road motorbike company) have just launched a...

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Harold Tay

5 October 2021 5:05am

Electric motorcycles definitely have advantages in the bush, and I would like to see more of that!   Apart from the advantages mentioned by that site, the low speed torque and clutchless nature of electric drives make it a natural for rough terrain.

The bikes you linked to show their purebred sports/competition pedigree.  Workhorse motorcycles for the rough look very different, for instance the German and Russian sidecar bikes of WW2, and the scooters used in farms today in SE Asia (especially Vietnam) often tow trailers or have sidecars and they handle offroad conditions well enough.  Interdiction in flagrante delecti is where speed and agility are paramount, but I don't know how often that occurs, or if it is desireable.

They sure do look like fun though.

Antoine Ede

11 October 2021 11:17am

That an additional tool but I imagine that it will be only efficient in open terrain and mostly in southern African rainforest protected area. Not sure that it will be a game changer but might bring new ideas, let see how it goes.

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Survey for Doctoral Research on Poaching in Protected Areas

Wendy L. Zeller Zigaitis

11 March 2022 8:05pm

Hello. I am a third year PhD candidate at Penn State University.  I am currently working on my doctoral research on geospatial data synthesis in protected areas for...

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Carly Batist

26 March 2022 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

Wendy L. Zeller Zigaitis

28 March 2022 7:14pm

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 wlz101@psu.edu 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

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Anti-poaching CCTV and boat sensor

Juliana Masseloux

21 February 2022 2:02am

Hi all,  I work for Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in Thailand. We work closely with several wildlife sanctuaries and national parcs in the southern Western Forest...

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Harold Tay

5 March 2022 6:06am

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

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Download Now: The Technical Difficulties Editorial Series

WILDLABS Team

19 January 2022 12:00am

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....

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