Humanity has the opportunity to alter conservation strategies thanks to modern technology. Create the tools required to contribute to conservation efforts with cameras and drones that observe the environment, analytics that process data and conservative policies, and cloud technology that eliminates geographical and physical boundaries.
1. Conservation Data Analysis
The Conservation Analysis Unit (CAU) manages a trustworthy database of wildlife, vegetation, and habitat; it researches to provide information on conservation issues and shares this data with various parties involved in environmental preservation. With your help, we create and maintain several tools that assist decision-making.
2. Mobile Game With Augmented Reality
Internet of Elephants, a Kenyan firm, creates narrative-based strategies for involving the public in animal conservation. The startup’s augmented reality mobile game, Wildeverse, aims to get players closer to nature. Additionally, the business develops fitness apps that match users’ strengths with wild animals using actual conservation data. The firm wants to make animal conservation more visible to the broader public by turning it from a niche issue to a hot topic of conversation.
3. Drone Monitoring
In national parks and game reserves, certain nations have set aside particular areas where harsh regulations for criminal prosecution are in effect. However, it is challenging to prosecute illicit acts due to a lack of resources. Since national parks can cover thousands of square kilometers, it is challenging to monitor every area effectively.
4. Turtle Tracking
Commercial fishermen now have access to information about turtles’ tagging, including their feeding grounds and migration routes. Fishermen are urged to avoid fishing in certain vulnerable regions, especially during turtle mating season, or to lift their nets every 40 minutes. In-depth information about the number of adult males and females’ nesting intervals and post-reproductive migration paths can be obtained using satellite tagging.
5. Camera Traps
Over the past few years, the forest department, researchers, and other NGOs have used approximately 600 video traps that the IISc has built and deployed in the field. Nearly every state with large carnivores uses camera trapping. This method determines the population’s size and identifies demographic trends.
6. Acoustic Monitoring
It is now possible to automatically extract relevant ecological information from hours of recordings because of recent advancements in machine learning and computer vision. Animals use sound for echolocation, sex display, territorial defense, and communication. Bioacoustic monitoring monitors these noises to determine an animal’s distribution, physiological state, frequency, and behavior.
7. Sharing And Collaboration Over The Cloud
You can swiftly scale your technology with cloud-based technology without setting up, managing, and maintaining expensive physical infrastructure. Additionally, cloud technology allows global accessibility, enabling geographically dispersed businesses to swiftly and easily share information. Combining resources and talents to advance wildlife conservation initiatives and produce more significant outcomes will be simpler.
8. Radar Technology
It is challenging to trace the movement and position of some species with several wings since they fly thousands of kilometers. The use of radar technology can provide details regarding the timing, direction, and even wing-flapping patterns of mobile flight. As a result, biologists can better study and observe some migratory species.
9. PIT Tags
PIT tags, also known as passive integrated transponders, aid in tracking numerous terrestrial, aquatic, and even avian species. The tag, which functions like a pet’s microchip, is implanted inside the animal. In addition to establishing the success of fishway restoration using PIT tags, CWF is now developing recommendations for the PIT tagging of eels.
10. GAP Analysis
It finds gaps in conservation lands. The gap analysis tool is employed in wildlife conservation. It can serve as a foundation for recommendations from conservation managers or scientists to enhance the representativeness of nature reserves or the efficacy of protected areas so that these areas offer the best value for preserving biological diversity.
