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Perimeter Defense: Innovative Technologies for Detecting and Preventing Illegal Logging Wednesday, September 16, 2015 Location: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 8:00-9:00 Breakfast (East Garden) 9:00-9:30 Welcome remarks Aaron Steele, World Resources Institute Meg Lowman, California Academy of Sciences 9:30-10:00 Session 1: State of illegal logging detection and prevention What are the current barriers to effective detection and prevention of illegal logging? Scott Landis, Greenwood Fermin Chimatani, ECA- Amarakaeri Communal Reserve Adalberto Lopez, Guatemala Agency for Protected Areas (CONAP) Roger Ngoufo, Cameroon Environmental Watch 10:00-10:30 Coffee break 10:30-noon Session 2: State of perimeter defense technology How relevant is perimeter defense technology to illegal logging? What technologies are currently available and being used in the field for forest monitoring and detection of unwanted activities? What technologies are currently not being used but can be applied for these purposes? Nir Tenenbaum, Wildeas, Perimeter Defense Technology 101 Gregor MacLennan, Digital Democracy Nathan Hahn, RESOLVE, Trailguard Dan Lopez, Urthecast Topher White, Rainforest Connection Anjali Nayar, TIMBY Noon-1:00 Lunch (East Garden) 1:00-2:30 Session 3: Applying technology to a demo site Demo site: Maya Biosphere Reserve Representatives from the Guatemala Agency for Protected Areas (CONAP) will describe the location, land use, physical conditions, and the threats of illegal activities in the reserve. Group discussion on how technology can help address these issues will follow. Please refer to ‘demo site description’ for background information. Demo site presenter: Adalberto Lopez, Victor Ramos, Guatemala Agency for Protected Areas (CONAP)
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Perimeter Defense: Innovative Technologies for Detecting and Preventing Illegal Logging Wednesday, September 16, 2015 Location: California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 8:00-9:00 Breakfast (East Garden) 9:00-9:30 Welcome remarks
Aaron Steele, World Resources Institute Meg Lowman, California Academy of Sciences
9:30-10:00 Session 1: State of illegal logging detection and prevention
What are the current barriers to effective detection and prevention of illegal logging?
Scott Landis, Greenwood
Fermin Chimatani, ECA- Amarakaeri Communal Reserve
Adalberto Lopez, Guatemala Agency for Protected Areas (CONAP)
Roger Ngoufo, Cameroon Environmental Watch 10:00-10:30 Coffee break 10:30-noon Session 2: State of perimeter defense technology
How relevant is perimeter defense technology to illegal logging? What technologies are currently available and being used in the field for forest monitoring and detection of unwanted activities? What technologies are currently not being used but can be applied for these purposes?
Nir Tenenbaum, Wildeas, Perimeter Defense Technology 101
Gregor MacLennan, Digital Democracy
Nathan Hahn, RESOLVE, Trailguard
Dan Lopez, Urthecast
Topher White, Rainforest Connection
Anjali Nayar, TIMBY Noon-1:00 Lunch (East Garden) 1:00-2:30 Session 3: Applying technology to a demo site
Demo site: Maya Biosphere Reserve Representatives from the Guatemala Agency for Protected Areas (CONAP) will describe the location, land use, physical conditions, and the threats of illegal activities in the reserve. Group discussion on how technology can help address these issues will follow. Please refer to ‘demo site description’ for background information.
Demo site presenter: Adalberto Lopez, Victor Ramos, Guatemala Agency for Protected Areas (CONAP)
2:30-3:00 Coffee break 3:00-4:30 Session 4: Information platforms
What platforms have been developed for aggregating and sharing information? How can data be made more accessible for better monitoring of forests and decision-making?
Alyssa Barrett, World Resources Institute, Global Forest Watch
Rolando Navarro, Peru Agency for Supervision of Forest Resources and Wildlife (OSINFOR)
Thomas Snitch, University of Maryland
Leo Bottrill, Moabi 4:30-6:30 Networking reception
Un-Conference Day Friday, September 18, 2015, 9am-2pm Location: California Academy of Sciences Co-hosted with Pivot Point This half-day gathering will facilitate knowledge exchange through group discussions and interactive exercises. Topics will include challenges and barriers to applying tech to forest defense, how to identify and evaluate applicability of various tech solutions, lessons learned from past experiences of tech deployment, as well as topics raised during the main Wednesday event. Aspiration Tech will lead discussion and activities. Breakfast and lunch with be served.
