Side Event

The TEAM Network and Wildlife Insights: Providing new tools and solutions to enhance data-driven decisions for biodiversity management.

Organizer
Conservation International

Date and Time
3 November 2015 13:15 - 14:45

Meeting
Nineteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice

The Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network (TEAM) is the first global monitoring network using camera traps to monitor birds and mammals in tropical forests. The TEAM Network is building standardized wildlife monitoring solutions applicable to an individual protected area and to sub-national, national and regional levels. Wildlife Insights: The Camera Trap Data Network (WI) is an offshoot of TEAM. WI is an integrated platform to collect, process, and analyze camera trap data to facilitate and inform decisions on wildlife management to track progress towards Aichi Targets 11 and 12. WI is a cloud-based system that will allow users to share, access, and analyze millions of camera trap images and related data including a variety of other environmental and climate data sources. The TEAM Network and WI provide analytical tools that range from simple data summaries to more complex analytics, such as the Wildlife Picture Index (WPI), that will enable land use managers insight in the status of terrestrial vertebrate wildlife populations. We will demonstrate WPI (and other tools provided by the TEAM Network and Wildlife Insights) in a series of case studies. Partners: Conservation International, Wildlife Conservation Society, The Smithsonian Institution, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.