Featured Project: Leopard Ecology and Conservation project, Botswana
At Leopard Ecology & Conservation, Field Research Coordinator Rosie Miles and her colleagues Alessandro Araldi and Pogiso ‘Africa’ Ithuteng are seeking to promote the long-term survival of leopard and lion populations in Botswana by integrating conservation and community education. WildTrack's FIT fits the bill!
OUR MISSION
WildTrack’s Mission is to protect endangered species using a unique combination of advanced data analytics, artificial intelligence, and traditional ecological knowledge.
WildTrack has developed an innovative new model to tackle the global decline in species – using footprints.
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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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WildTrack wins 2020 AUVSI XCELLENCE award!
October 9th, 2020
We’re truly honoured to be recipients of the 2020 Association for Unmanned Vehicle Services International (AUVSI) XCELLENCE award in the Humanitarian category, for our work using UAVs to monitor the cryptic ground evidence left by endangered species (in our case, trails and footprints). Our special thanks to our partners at…
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.