Two Software Engineers Are Revolutionizing India’s Fight Against Poaching and Wildlife Trafficking

Two Software Engineers Are Revolutionizing India’s Fight Against Poaching and Wildlife Trafficking

Rather than taking their software and programming degrees into the tech sector, two young Kerala men are using them to bring India’s efforts to track, prevent, and punish wildlife crime into the 21st century with a suite of sophisticated apps and tools. They believe they are the first to bring this level of digitization into […]

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In biodiverse Nepal, wildlife crime fighters are underpowered but undeterred

In biodiverse Nepal, wildlife crime fighters are underpowered but undeterred

CHITWAN, Nepal — When Hemanta Malla Thakuri, former deputy inspector-general of the Nepal Police, started training the country’s frontline wildlife crime investigators last year, he realized they operated similarly to how the police did when he joined the force nearly four decades ago. “The situation was such that we were given responsibilities, but not adequate […]

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