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…
As we emerge, slowly and unsteadily, from the thunderbolt of the first Pandemic, with more almost certain to come, it seems a good time to look at the path ahead. Do we want to return to the consumptive, exploitative, financial-growth-fixated world that we left? The experience of being rendered close…
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…
