If there’s snow outside, and you’re wondering what to do, try some snow tracking! We’re excited to feature two expert trackers and colleagues: Jon Poppele from the Minnesota Wildlife Tracking Project, and Kim Cabrera from BearTracker, for interviewing with us on snow tracking. Jon Poppele, Minnesota Wildlife Tracking Project . …
A few weeks ago we published an article in Peer J – ‘Protecting endangered megafauna through AI analysis of drone images in a low-connectivity setting: a case study from Namibia’ with colleagues Alice Hua, Kevin Martin, Yuzeng Chen, Catherine Mou, Maximilian Sterk, Friedrich Reinhard, Berend Reinhard and Stephen Lee. We…
In our last blog post, we showcased our most recent publication on otter monitoring. We just found out that this publication has won our research team an Otter Oscar! No red carpets for us, just a muddy riverbank and a chance to help protect these gorgeous animals in their natural…
Southeast Asia is home to several different species of endangered otter, but they are elusive – hard to find and harder to count. BUT… their footprints are packed full of data on who is who, just waiting to be decoded. With insights provided by JMP statistical software, we have managed…
How can we count rhinos quickly over large areas to protect them? I recently recorded a podcast for NVIDIA with colleague Alice Hua, a software engineer and former student from UC Berkeley, on our recently published work using drones equipped with AI to take images of rhino from the air,…
Back before we founded WildTrack, we lived in Zimbabwe for 10 years tracking black rhino, and worked closely every day with expert indigenous trackers. Slowly we translated elements of their incredible skills into the footprint identification technology (FIT) that now allows us to identify endangered species from images of their…
WildTrack Specialist Group members Amy Fitzmaurice and Asaf Ben-David are presenting a unique art exhibition for our workshop in Portugal, October 30th – November 6th 2022. Our Footprint Identification Technology (FIT) emerged from the art and science of tracking. Asaf’s anatomically precise and beautiful track drawings will be complemented by…
This week, in his excellent blog series, ConservationBytes, Australian Ecologist Corey Bradshaw discusses new attempts to resurrect the extinct Tasmanian tiger, or Thylacine, which was hunted to extinction in Tasmania in the early years of the 20th Century. The blog publishes the opinions of 5 experts on the subject. Of…
Our latest publication in the journal PeerJ describes how we’ve developed a model to protect rhino using drones. The drones fly overhead and collect video of rhino. An AI algorithm is trained to identify rhino in the video frames and then reports back via a text message to wildlife managers…
We were honoured to present WildTrack’s work to a wide-ranging audience from wildlife conservationists to government officials from around the world at this IUCN event that works to identify new technologies that can help us deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). WildTrack’s primary focus is SDG #15, Life on…
