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Participatory monitoring of poaching in the Congo basin

Stevens, MLL; Vitos, M; Lewis, J; Haklay, M; (2013) Participatory monitoring of poaching in the Congo basin. In: (Proceedings) GISRUK 2013, the 21st GIS Research UK conference.

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Abstract

Supporting communities to share and apply their knowledge of local environmental conditions using scientifically accepted methods can lead to improvements in environmental governance and social-environmental justice. In this paper we discuss our project that seeks to enable the Mbendjele hunter-gatherers in the Congo basin rainforests to monitor and map the activities of commercial poachers in their area. The goal is to allow more effective control over poachers, and, moreover, to curb the harassment the Mbendjele suffer at the hands of corrupt “eco-guards”. The fact that the users are non-literate as wells as the harsh rainforest conditions pose significant challenges that we are tackling with our “Anti-Poaching” data collection platform, of which we describe the first prototype.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Participatory monitoring of poaching in the Congo basin
Event: GISRUK 2013, the 21st GIS Research UK conference
Location: Liverpool, England, UK
Dates: 2013-04-02 - 2013-04-05
Keywords: Citizen Science, Mobile Sensing, Conservation, Natural Resource Management, Social-Environmental Justice
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1393554
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