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 short documentary video by Ray and Susan Ellis of Footpath Pictures (https://footpathpictures.com/filmmakers/) 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
And now for something completely different!
May 8th, 2019
WildTrack has recorded prints in almost every kind of substrate you can imagine – sand, snow, mud, gravel, charcoal etc) but yesterday we received something completely new! Every year in North Carolina, the pine trees shed a huge load of pollen. For a few days each Spring all outdoor surfaces (and sometimes indoors too) are covered with a fine layer of yellow pollen dust. A friend recently captured this wonderful image of racoon prints in the pollen dust on a sidewalk . Racoon front feet (in the right of the image) have a characteristic ‘human hand’ shape.
WildTrack in Numbers 2018
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.