Revolutionising indicators of (un)sustainable wildlife use and trade by harnessing social media big data

To create and provide standardized online monitoring frameworks and indicators for wildlife use and trade to enable near real-time tracking and analysis of wildlife trade patterns and empower policymakers and stakeholders to make informed and sustainable wildlife management decisions.

Financial mechanism
GEF
Date of approval
Status
Project approved
URL
https://www.thegef.org/projects-operations/projects/11854
Implementing organisations
IUCN
Project ID
11854
GEF project type
Medium size
GEF project phase
GEF - 8
GEF Cofinancing
$3.726.888
GEF project grant
$1.743.120
Executing Agencies
IUCNUniversity of Helsinki  ; People for Wildlife representing IUCN Species Survival Committee Sustainable Use and Livelihoods (SULi) Specialist Group; University of Cambridge; TRAFFIC; UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC); Zoological Society of London (ZSL); United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC); University of Oxford