We interviewed Keith of Wildlife Works during our trip to Kenia. Learn how the Cluey app changed the way they operate and is making their work a lot easier and safer, check out the video.
Update from Rewilding Apennines!
Living with tigers - part II
Last November we were happy to announce that PhD-researcher D.P Srivastava started using the Sensing Clues Wildlife Intelligence Tools Suite to collect and analyse data of tigers in and around the Bhopal city in India. The study aims to understand the situation of tiger presence and survival near the urban landscape of Bhopal City. With the research a few months underway we spoke with D.P for an update.
Living with tigers
India is home to circa 2967 Bengal tigers, which accounts for 70% of the worlds wild tigers population (AITE, 2019). More than 1000 of these tigers live in human-dominated landscapes, outside protected nature reserves. PhD-researcher D.P Srivastava is using a bio-social approach to investigate the prospects of tiger survival in and around Bhopal city. Learn more about D.P Srivastava’s research.
Cluey helps increasing bear population!
Marsican Brown Bear
Data Scientists saving rhinos!
On Friday 7th July 2017 JADS will host the first-ever Wildlife Hackathon. During a full day of data- and brain-crunching activity, no less than 50 students and two data science teams of KPN and DIKW will dedicate themselves to find ways in which data can save some of the most threatened species in Africa.
The competing teams will be presented with two challenges. One presented by the Resource Ecology Group of Wageningen University. The other by Sensing Clues.
The challenge presented by Wageningen University is aimed at the preservation of rhino’s, by finding correlations between the time-spatial distribution and movement of zebra herds versus the presence of poachers wandering through the park. The brilliance of this approach is that the rhino’s do not have to be equipped with radio-beacons, which are easy to detect by professional poachers.
The challenge presented by Sensing Clues is aimed at reducing the conflict between humans and elephants. By accurately recognising the sounds of approaching elephants, villagers can be warned in time, thus preventing deadly confrontations (see also: SERVAL sensor). In this hackathon the students will be challenged to outperform the classifier created by Hugo, our most experienced data scientist.
This unique event is the result of a close collaboration between JADS and a Game Reserve in South Africa. Journalists interested in joining the event may contact Patricia Beks (p.beks at tue.nl / tel. + 31 (0) 6 31 242 757).
Detecting poachers through Sound Event Recognition
Anti-poaching
In 90 seconds this video shows you how the SERVAL can be used to detect threats, such as poachers or illegal loggers.
Human-Wildlife Conflict
Another promising application of SERVAL is the mitigation of the human-wildlife conflict. Habitats of elephants shrink, seducing them to roam into the land and villages of farmers living near nature reserves. This is causing serious trouble. Villagers loose their crop, or worse, get killed. In retaliation, elephants get poisoned or shot. By identifying and localising elephants before they enter the human territories, rangers may be in time to keep both the villagers and the elephants safe.
For this project, we are working closely together with:
Karol Piczak of the Warsaw University of Technology,
Angela Stoeger-Horwath of the Dept. Cognitive Biology, Vienna University,
Matthias Zeppelzauer of the St. Pölten University of Applied Science,
Peter Wrege of the Elephant Listening Project at Cornell University, and
Blaise Droz, independent nature journalist and videast.