Meet the Finalists in Asia & the Pacific
Australia
Rapid chemical odor profiling for frontline identification of illegal wildlife
The University of Technology Sydney seeks to develop a portable electronic nose that can be used by frontline personnel to rapidly identify species-specific wildlife parts and confirm whether they are illegal on-site without the need for laboratory analysis. Rapid identification can greatly assist law enforcement to prosecute offenders, thus preventing future wildlife crimes, and determination of the species' geographic origin will assist customs to track current trafficking routes.
Problem Area: Strengthen Forensic Evidence: Collection of Forensic Evidence / Data
Stage of Innovation: Proof of Concept
China
A Project of Baidu Technology Laboratory for Public Welfare
In Baidu’s program, the concept of wildlife protection will be presented on 404 pages to users by means of multimedia, by virtue of Baidu's core capabilities in cloud services and its platform advantages. As Baidu boasts 700 million internet users and responds to 13.8 billion search requests every day, this solution has the potential to strongly promote the concept of wildlife protection in users' daily life.
Problem Area: Reduce Consumer Demand: Raising Consumer Awareness
Stage of Innovation: Product Development
India
e-Eye®(Electronic Eye):Real-time Anti‐Poaching,Surveillance & Wildlife Tracking System
e-Eye® is an innovative technology that seeks to convert wildlife crime data into information and generate an alert before a crime takes place. This solution serves a number of functions: wildlife surveillance by securing parks; anti-poaching by controlling inaccessible areas; analysis of trends; intrusion detection; fire alerts; patrol management, and; corruption monitoring, a 24x7 vigil.
Problem Area: Strengthen Forensic Evidence: Collection of Forensic Evidence / Data
Stage of Innovation: Scaling
Indonesia
Conservation of threatened Indonesian slow lorises using DNA-based forensic methods to tackle trade
YIARI aims to employ genetic methods to create a database which can be used identify the correct species and origins of confiscated slow lorises; map trade and poaching hotspot areas to encourage law enforcement action; provide evidence in prosecution cases: and provide recommendations to the Indonesian government to update certain laws pertaining to the protection of this Genus.
Problem Area: Strengthen Forensic Evidence: Collection of Forensic Evidence / Data
Stage of Innovation: Proof of Concept
Nepal
Building wildlife genetic (DNA) database to assist in the fight against wildlife crime in South Asia
The Center for Molecular Dynamics Nepal has built Nepal’s first wildlife genetic database on wild Bengal tigers, and now has the genetic fingerprints of 125 tigers with corresponding geo-spatial location (out of a total estimated population of 200). The Center seeks to expand on this technology and develop a mobile phone based application to capture field data and transfer it real-time to a central searchable database.
Problem Area: Strengthen Forensic Evidence: Collection of Forensic Evidence / Data
Stage of Innovation: Product Development
Thailand
iTHINK- an animal selfie app to create awareness
Freeland Foundation proposes to enhance its ongoing iTHINK campaign by developing a phone app that allows users to share their opinions about ending wildlife consumption in a fun and colorful way. iTHINK is a unique campaign that was developed as an interactive web-based platform designed to raise awareness about wildlife trafficking, engage youth in wildlife protection, and educate the public.
Problem Area: Reduce Consumer Demand: Raising Consumer Awareness
Stage of Innovation: Proof of Concept
Digitizing ASEAN legal Handbook on Wildlife Crime
Freeland is developing an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Legal Handbook on Wildlife Crime as a toolkit for law enforcers to access wildlife laws, including international cooperation, mutual legal assistance, anti-money laundering, corruption, and extradition laws within ASEAN. Freeland shall collaborate with Legal Atlas to digitize the Handbook on an online, legal intelligence platform which turns legal texts into structured data.
Problem Area: Strengthen Forensic Evidence: Management and Sharing of Data
Stage of Innovation: Scaling