Using data to conserve nature and stop wildlife crime

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How can data and data technologies and methods be used to fight wildlife crime and support nature conservation? We talk about this question with three organizations (see below) from The Netherlands that operate internationally to preserve nature and biodiversity, fight poaching and trafficking and prevent human-wildlife conflicts. They will provide a 10-15 minute presentation each talking about how data is benefiting their work, but also what the unique challenges are in working in remote areas, with high stakes, and many involved stakeholders.

After the presentations there will be ample time for questions from the audience, so we invite you to release your curiosity!

The event is in English.

SPEAKERS

Tim van Deursen
Co-founder at Hack the Poacher

Hack the Poacher is a non-profit organization looking for ways to help prevent poaching of rhinos and elephants in national parks using smart technology. Their current projects focus on cell phone detection and smart camera traps.

Tim van Deursen is an engineer on a mission to make a positive contribution to the world. Tim wants to supercharge high-tech efforts needed to solve big global challenges. He believes many such challenges we nowadays have can benefit from smart easy to deploy technology. Technology can and needs to be part of solving global challenges and therefore Tim created the team “Hack The Planet” that aims to do exactly this.

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Rob van Grieken
Board member at Sensing Clues

Sensing Clues develops methods and technologies for nature conservation and wildlife protection. These methods and technologies enable wildlife protection organizations to get the right people, at the right time, in the right place. Using data from open sources and rangers in the field, their tools predict where poachers are most active or where human-wildlife conflicts (HWC) are most likely to happen, allowing for early intervention. Sensing Clues is a Dutch ANBI holding not-for-profit foundation that operates in Africa, Asia, Latin-America and Europe.

Rob van Grieken has had a successful career of 43 years in the world of ICT services, where he served as senior manager, CEO, COO and Executive Board member for a variety of companies, including CMG (now CGI) and Atos. He also ran his own business for 5 years and worked at several smaller ICT companies (a.o. DIKW Intelligence). When Rob took early retirement in 2017, he decided to dedicate his time to two of his passions: nature conservation/wildlife protection and sailing. Rob joined the Sensing Clues Supervisory Board in 2018 and focuses, among other things, on Sensing Clues’ external contacts and partners. Since retiring, he also works as a canal boat skipper in Amsterdam, sailing on luxury sloops and salon boats.

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Timo Roeke,
Project Leader at waarneming.nl

Waarneming.nl / Observation.org is the largest nature platform in the Netherlands and part of the Observation International Foundation, a non-profit organization on a mission to collect, build and share a multilingual observational data collection system focused on global biodiversity. To do so, they host a multilingual platform where users from all over the world can register the birds, plants, insects and all other flora and fauna they observe; and they facilitate the validation of this field data by professionals. Open data and citizen science is at the center of what they do.

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PROGRAMME

19:30 - 19:35 Welcome
19:35 - 20:35 Keynotes
20:35 - 20:55 Discussion / Q&A
20:55 - 21:00 Closing remarks

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