Featured Project: WildTrack's new Community Forum on WildLabs.net: FIT
Footprints are being adopted everywhere! WildTrack now has a new project on the Conservation Techology Forum WildLabs.net. Our WildTrackFIT community is composed of users in >20 countries and we have FIT species algorithms developed for a range of species from big cats to Pachyderms, bears, mustelids, and even small mammals. If you see footprints as part of your fieldwork, or in another capacity, we'd love to hear from you! Check out our new Community Forum
Our Mission
WildTrack is a 501(c)3 based at the JMP Division of SAS Software, USA. Our mission is to develop and implement non-invasive, community-friendly approaches to provide more effective monitoring of endangered species, to protect them and to reduce human:wildlife conflict.
Media
WildTrack has developed a footprint identification technique (FIT) that enables wildlife conservationists to identify endangered species from their unique footprints. This allows them to monitor the animals closely without disturbing them.
This short documentary video shows WildTrack’s Drs Sky Alibhai and Zoe Jewell tracking cheetah with the San people on the Central Namibian Plateau.
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Blog
TerraX documentary about WildTrack’s rhino work in Namibia, now in English
July 7th, 2020
Now you can view WildTrack’s TerraX documentary as a stand-alone sequence with English subtitles (Credit: Alexander Beck, JMP Germany)
WildTrack in Numbers 2020
WildTrack works to deliver non-invasive monitoring for endangered species. Our footprint identification technique (FIT) is customized for each species in our many different species project partners around the world
Field projects send us footprints, and together with our students in universities around the world we develop species algorithms and help field projects apply the technique.
Thanks to generous support from JMP (in which FIT sits) we are also able to help field scientists use JMP data visualization software without additional cost.