{"id":380521,"date":"2020-11-02T06:54:38","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T14:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=380521"},"modified":"2023-12-07T09:39:32","modified_gmt":"2023-12-07T17:39:32","slug":"chengeta-wildlife-location-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/chengeta-wildlife-location-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"Chengeta Wildlife Wields Location Intelligence to Fight Poachers"},"author":871,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[422802],"tags":[472141,1291,430511,279602],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[478412],"esri_blog_department":[478222],"class_list":["post-380521","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","tag-conflict","tag-conservation","tag-poaching","tag-wildlife","esri-blog-category-wildlife","esri_blog_department-conservation-and-environment"],"acf":{"video_source":"","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"Chengeta Wildlife trains rangers to use field tools and spatial analysis to disrupt poaching and protect wildlife.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"<em>The Esri Conservation Team was saddened to learn of the death of Rory Young, Founder and CEO of Chengeta Wildlife, who was killed along with two journalists from Spain (David Beriain and Roberto Fraile) while on anti-poaching patrol in Arly National Park, Burkina Faso on April 26, 2021. This tragic loss highlights the incredible risks facing the wildlife protection community in their efforts to combat wildlife trafficking. This senseless violence furthers our resolve to support these organizations in their important work to protect wildlife and strengthen the resilience of local communities.<\/em>\r\n\r\nChengeta Wildlife finds motivation from tackling incredibly hard wildlife conservation problems in conflict zones, making a measurable difference despite challenging conditions.\r\n\r\nKey Takeaways\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Organization uses location technology to help protect wildlife from dangers of poaching and habitat loss.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Climate change and COVID-19 add challenges for people and animals as rangers work to promote harmony.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Data collection apps and smart maps enable analysis, situational awareness, and planning for local rangers and international supporters.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Climate change and the novel coronavirus are adding to already difficult wildlife conservation challenges and harsh human conditions across conflict zones in Africa. In response, local ranger teams with Chengeta Wildlife are finding new ways to approach threats to human and wildlife sustainability.\r\n\r\n\u201cIn places like the Central African Republic, the people literally live hand to mouth,\u201d said Rory Young, president and cofounder of Chengeta Wildlife, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting and promoting harmony between humans and nature. \u201cThe work you do feeds you tonight or tomorrow. If they are in lockdown and can\u2019t work, they are literally starving.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe nexus between poverty, poaching, and wildlife trafficking causes ongoing problems across Africa and around the world. According to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/documents\/data-and-analysis\/wildlife\/2020\/World_Wildlife_Report_2020_9July.pdf\">report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime<\/a>, the annual illicit income generated by elephant ivory is estimated at US$400 million. Poachers get just a small fraction of that take, but in places of high poverty the income and the meat provide motivation for opportunistic killing. Often this takes place outside parks where there\u2019s less risk of detection and a dire need for food.\r\n\r\n\u201cI go into dead forests where there isn\u2019t a living thing,\u201d Young said. \u201cPeople have eaten the birds, the insects, all the termites. I remember seeing these places thriving with wildlife. There is mass slaughter on the ground, and I don\u2019t think that gets conveyed.\u201d\r\n\r\nDesperation is a major reason people poach. Networks of criminals are also taking advantage of COVID-19 restrictions that make it difficult for rangers to go on patrol.\r\n<h2><strong>Organized with Information<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nChengeta Wildlife maintains a permanent presence in the Central African Republic, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, Mali, and Burkina Faso\u2014all countries currently experiencing some level of violence.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe don\u2019t specifically seek out conflict zones,\u201d Young said. \u201cWe go where the need is greatest.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":380091,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The organization takes an\u00a0intelligence-driven\u00a0approach to thwart poaching, training rangers to track and apprehend poachers by anticipating their movements."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":381011,"image_position":"right","orientation":"vertical","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cWhen we deal with a problem in a given area, analytics and actionable intelligence inform our planning, coordination, and execution of missions,\u201d Young said. \u201cImproving the technology allows for improved command and control.\u201d\r\n\r\nChengeta Wildlife uses smart maps and apps based on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/what-is-gis\/overview\">geographic information system (GIS)<\/a> to aid rangers and park managers.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe teach rangers to use GPS and put information on a map to visualize the situation\u2014situational awareness is critical,\u201d Young said. \u201cThe rangers are either collecting data or absorbing the analysis, and they pick it up incredibly fast. They have a keen understanding of geography and appreciate the importance of improving that understanding all the time.\u201d\r\n\r\nRangers collect data and share it with the Countering Wildlife Trafficking Institute in Saint Louis, Missouri (see sidebar). There, geospatial intelligence experts combine all the collected information to target poachers, prioritize missions, and provide tactical support."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":379931,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"\u201cThese situations are too complex to be understood in any way other than by visualizing via mapping,\u201d Young said. \u201cThe better rangers understand their environment, the more they are able to ensure their own safety and succeed in their mission.\u201d\r\n<h3><strong>Perfect Storm in the Sahel<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nChengeta Wildlife works in places where there\u2019s fierce competition between humans and wildlife for resources, space, and habitat.\r\n\r\n\u201cThat\u2019s where the real battle\u2019s being fought,\u201d Young said. \u201cThe solution is not just less people or to create more parks. It\u2019s really about understanding the conflict generators.\u201d\r\n\r\nIn the Sahel region of Africa, desertification is shrinking arable land. The Fulani nomadic herders have moved south as the desert has grown, putting their cattle in competition with wildlife as well as sedentary ethnic groups that grow crops. Often, these groups have different religions, beliefs, and nationalities."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":380081,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The Sahel is ground zero for climate change because two completely different environments\u2014rain-free desert and low-rainfall savanna\u2014meet here. The area has seen extreme temperatures, fluctuating rainfall, and decades of drought. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that 80 percent of the land in the region has been degraded, causing more than 30 million people to suffer from severe food insecurity.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt should be seen as a prophecy,\u201d Young said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to happen on a larger scale in more places in the world. When the environment is destroyed, people go hungry and they\u2019re forced to move, putting pressure on someone else.\u201d\r\n\r\nChengeta Wildlife works to understand what\u2019s needed. If the problem is hunger, the answer isn\u2019t necessarily more arable land. The solution might be to teach new farming practices. If the problem is a lack of water, drilling for water or managing the environment to capture runoff during the rainy season may be the answer.\r\n\r\n\u201cOur community experts point out that the problem is often not a lack of money, it\u2019s how to manage money and having a place to put it,\u201d Young said. \u201cWe try to figure out how to help people so that we can help the wildlife.\u201d\r\n<h3><strong>Progress on the Problems<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nDespite overwhelming challenges, Chengeta Wildlife has had success. It takes a pragmatic approach\u2014determining where there\u2019s need, where people want help, and where the group\u2019s solutions will improve the situation.\r\n\r\n\u201cWhen we take on a project, we really believe we can make a difference, and then we go for it,\u201d Young said."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":380101,"image_position":"left","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"On one project in the Sahel, Chengeta Wildlife staff are busy training 900 rangers to protect an area of a quarter-million square kilometers. In Mali, staff curtailed the poaching of desert elephants\u2014which had seen a loss of 45 percent of the population from 2015 to 2016\u2014and achieved a zero percent loss by 2019. Now, that region\u2019s elephant population is growing, despite escalating security problems.\r\n\r\nYoung and others at Chengeta Wildlife are working hard to repeat a pattern of success. They forge partnerships with like-minded organizations and use GIS to understand the movement of elephants and poachers to predict activity at a particular time and place.\r\n\r\n\u201cThe geospatial analytics is very important to determine where, when, and how we should move to avoid confrontation or conflict,\u201d Young said. \u201cIt allows us to disrupt the opportunity\u2014getting there, stopping the poaching, and exfiltrating safely to keep our rangers alive.\u201d\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nLearn more about how location technology is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/industries\/conservation\">contributing to conservation efforts<\/a>."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Center","content":"<h3><strong>Analyzing All Inputs to Arrive at Geospatial Intelligence<\/strong><\/h3>\r\nDr. Odean Serrano, founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtinstitute.org\/\">Countering Wildlife Trafficking Institute<\/a>\u00a0(CWTI), approaches the problem of wildlife trafficking by applying knowledge from decades of geospatial work for both the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Serrano managed NGA\u2019s environmental geography program before joining academia at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slu.edu\/geoslu\/index.php\">Saint Louis University Geospatial Institute<\/a>.\r\n\r\n\u201cAt NGA, I\u00a0analyzed and promoted critical environmental challenges like climate, food, water, biodiversity, and ecosystem health with respect to security,\u201d Serrano said. \u201cGIS is the glue that brings together various missions and themes of environmental security to understand who\u2019s doing what, when, and where.\u201d\r\n\r\nSerrano provides the geospatial analytics arm of Chengeta Wildlife\u2019s evidence-based intelligence unit alongside an organization called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sensingclues.nl\/\">Sensing Clues<\/a>, which applies investigative analysis.\r\n\r\nCWTI and Sensing Clues work together to combine antipoaching operational analytics with conservation research to provide an understanding of the issues affecting protected wildlife areas. Each conservation operation is informed by a plan with plots on a map of ranger patrols, weather data from satellites, data from GPS collars placed on elephants and gorillas, and specifics about the local population.\r\n\r\nRangers in the field use the Cluey Data Collector and Tracking app, developed by Sensing Clues, which is seamlessly integrated with ArcGIS Online. These tools allow rangers to record details about what they observe on patrol. The data then gets integrated with historical data to reveal hot spots of illegal activity as well as trends. This gives the rangers a better sense of what their mission is and where to carry out patrols.\r\n\r\n\u201cWhen you connect an advanced tracker with a skilled geospatial analyst, magic happens,\u201d said Rory Young, president and cofounder of Chengeta Wildlife. \u201cThe ranger knows he can collect information about a group\u2019s movements, its composition, and even its weaponry\u2014reading impressions, including every butt of a rifle that\u2019s put on the ground. We\u2019re linking the ancient skills of trackers with advanced technology and analytics to truly make a difference.\u201d","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":380351,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chengeta Wildlife Wields Location Intelligence to Fight Poachers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Chengeta Wildlife trains rangers to use location intelligence\u2014field tools and spatial analysis\u2014to disrupt poaching and protect wildlife.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/chengeta-wildlife-location-intelligence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta 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