Events

#SaveTheDate 📅 🌱 Tune in online to watch the hashtag#WorldWildlifeDay 2024 UN Celebration!

When: 4 March (10AM-1PM EST)
Where: webtv.un.org

This year, we are exploring digital innovation and highlighting how digital conservation technologies and services can drive wildlife conservation, sustainable and legal wildlife trade and human-wildlife coexistence, now and for future generations in an increasingly connected world. 📱💻🐟🐯🌳

Meet our organizing partners: UNDP, ifaw, Jackson Wild, and WILDLABS Community

hashtag#WWD2024 hashtag#ConnectingPeopleAndPlanet hashtag#DigitalInnovation hashtag#TechForWildlife

Join us for an engaging Instagram Live session on March 4th, 2024, at 10 AM GMT, hosted by A Rocha India and Editage. We'll delve into the realm of Digital Conservation: Harnessing Innovation for Wildlife Protection, in celebration of World Wildlife Day.

Our distinguished speakers, Nicholas Warren, Senior Conservation Manager at A Rocha International, and Avinash Krishnan, National Director and CEO of A Rocha India, will lead the discussion. With over 20 years of experience, Nicholas brings a wealth of knowledge, having worked across diverse ecosystems from the Antarctic to the Tropics. Avinash, a renowned large mammal ecologist, has been pivotal in establishing conservation practices in southern India, focusing on human-animal interactions and elephant management.

Join us for an insightful conversation on Instagram Live, as we explore the intersection of technology and conservation.

You're invited to join Wildlife Jewels® on March 3rd to celebrate the United Nations World Wildlife Day in the charming coastal town of Corona Del Mar for our Marine Debris Removal Initiative Sweep and Learn for Wildlife: Digital Innovation and Wildlife Rescue walk!

Join us in this FREE guided beach clean-up as we clean the beach of plastic debris! Discover the wildlife you are helping to protect, learn about the human-induced threats they are facing, and learn about ways digital innovation can assist in rescuing injured seabirds and marine life!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Berea Earth Warriors is hosting a hike and cleanup to celebrate World Wildlife Day!
There's hardly a better way to observe this special day than to clean up and preserve local wildlife habitat! We will be covering the accessible areas of the creek and the hiking trails. Trash bags and gloves will be provided, bring a grabber if you have one!

In celebration of World Wildlife Day 2024, Wildlife Jewels® is delighted to host an informative Webinar, where we explore the crucial role of digital innovation and cutting-edge technologies for the protection and conservation of our precious Wildlife. Our aim is to spark synergies to inspire cross-sector collaborations, fostering the re-application of novel technologies to enhance and expedite Wildlife protection efforts.

We will explore cutting-edge technologies and innovations, including novel tech capable of rapidly capturing 3D models of living organisms. Additionally, we will discuss innovative technologies that empower the public to save wildlife during emergencies, as well as solutions to ocean challenges utilizing underwater robotic technology for remote monitoring, sensing, and ocean exploration, and more!


Participation is complimentary, inviting you to join us, get inspired and gain valuable insights from experts and innovators across Wildlife conservation and digital innovation domains.

The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, Office of Conservation and Water, cordially invites you to attend a virtual event focused on the intersection between conservation and technology, what experts within each field can learn from one another, and how they can together break bottlenecks and surmount current obstacles to better combat wildlife trafficking. Following a keynote address by Peter Houlihan, Executive VP of Biodiversity & Conservation at XPRIZE Foundation, a first panel will discuss the general use, advancements, and limitations of technology in conservation efforts. Panelists will assess the application of artificial intelligence to camera trap and bio-acoustic data to more quickly isolate threats or identify wildlife. A second panel will explore how to better thwart the online trade of endangered and protected wildlife and wildlife products. The Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online will provide an update on its efforts, and eBay will explain how its AI tools help keep trafficked wildlife products off their platform.

AGENDA:

Introduction by Official, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Keynote by Peter Houlihan, Visiting Assistant Professor at UCLA’s Institute for the Environment and Sustainability in the Center for Tropical Research and Congo Basin Institute, and Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University in Environmental Science & Policy.

Panel 1: Technology in the field

· Dr. Jorge Ahumada, Wildlife Insights · Representative of the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico

· Nathan Garcia, former Governor of the Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico (Tamaya)

· Moderator: Whitney Wiedeman, Acting Wildlife Division Chief, OES/ECW, U.S. Department of State

Panel 2: Online Sales

· Crawford Allan, Senior Director, Wildlife Crime at World Wildlife Fund

· Traci Andrighetti, Global Regulatory Specialist at eBay

· Lori Choquette, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife Intelligence Unit

· Moderator: Whitney Wiedeman, Acting Wildlife Division Chief, OES/ECW, U.S. Department of State

Please RSVP to WorldWildlifeDay2024@state.gov.