Conservationists now have a new prototype AI tool to help prevent rhinoceros poaching. This Summer, over a time span of just 6 weeks and 3 different time zones, a diverse team of graduate students from UC Berkeley School of Information in collaboration with WildTrack created an end-to-end application that uses…
WildTrack’s 2020 report is available here We report on the challenges we faced during an extraordinary year, and share our successes. We’re so grateful for all the wonderful people who help us with our Mission. Thank you everyone.
Kate Gilman-Williams is driven by a passion to protect animals. What marks her apart from most other 11 yr olds is her determination to communicate this, and to act for change! Remarkably, she wrote to Microsoft to ask them if they would help her. Thanks to Sarah Maston and her…
The United Nations Day for Biological Diversity 2021 is an opportunity to celebrate the work being done around the world to protect our fast-disappearing biodiversity. Our WildTrack Specialist Group members are doing wonderful ‘Conservation from the Ground Up’ using non-invasive and community-based monitoring of endangered species. Our award-winning combination of…
The new WildTrack Specialist Group is an innovative global network of conservation biologists using only animal-friendly and community-accessible techniques to protect endangered species. This short interactive video gives an overview and an interactive map of where our members work. The four…
The theme of the 2021 Women in Science Day is ‘Women Scientists at the forefront of the fight against COVID-19. Our majority-women WildTrack Core Group is made up of independent scientists working to protect wildlife around the world and prevent human:wildlife conflict. As such, our work is of fundamental importance…
All over the world, bats – yes those same bats that pollinate our food, disperse seeds, eat bugs that annoy us – are in deep trouble. A fungal disease, white-nose syndrome, is decimating hibernating bat species in the West. Often the first contact we have with bats is when we…
Nature tourism and wildlife conservation often work hand in hand to support each other. COVID-19 has hit tourism very hard, creating major challenges in both sectors. Our colleagues in Iran have been working hard to monitor wild cats, and are also offering an opportunity to contribute to Iran’s conservation work…
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 collaboration with the UC Berkeley I School, has won the coveted Hal R. Varian Capstone award for the WildTrackAI Computer Vision application! WildTrack was voted by the judges as the best project out of 22 competitors showcasing AI applications in a wide range of fields. The WildTrackAI system…
