These new technologies could transform wildlife conservation
Trang Chu Minh (The Hill)
"Wildbook was started off to improve the tracking of whale sharks which was previously done by attaching plastic tags to the animals that had often never resurfaced. The platform has since grown into a vast database of various different species, including sea turtles, manta rays, sharks, whales, dolphins, big cats, giraffes and zebras."

Wild Me Uses Artificial Intelligence and Flatfile’s Data Importer to Fight Wildlife Extinction
Elizabeth Bukys (Flatfile)
"Wild Me’s Wildbook platform serves more than 200 organizations and nearly a thousand researchers. They are tracking at least 88,000 individual animals across the globe with well north of 438,000 sightings in the database. They have also engaged in data collection with more than 10,000 public citizen scientists."​

The Potential of Citizen Science
Washington Post (Rolex Partnership Content)"According to Norman, a citizen scientist is just a regular person who’s helping to expand knowledge of the natural world; for his purposes, its anyone with a camera and the ability to upload their whale shark photos to the ever-growing database, now known as Wildbook for Whale Sharks and managed through Wild Me."

The Amazing Ways Wild Me Uses Artificial Intelligence And Citizen Scientists To Help With Conservation
Bernard Marr, Forbes"There’s no doubt Wild Me’s innovations have revolutionized animal identification. It’s a spectacular example of what can result when humans and machines combine efforts for the greater good."

When Sharks Turned Up at Their Beach, They Called in Drones
Jackie Snow, The New York Times"Flukebook is a project that tracks individual dolphins and whales by using artificial intelligence to identify them by unique features on their tails and fins, much like facial recognition technology."

'Wildbook' site lets users upload pictures of endangered Grevy's zebras in Kenya to identify and track the animals in a bid to save the dwindling species
Dan Avery, DailyMail.com"Wildbook's algorithms replace tedious manual identification. So far volunteers, known as ‘citizen scientists,’ have helped map out some 2,800 Grevy’s zebras in Kenya"

What do sharks have to do with the Hubble Space Telescope?
@nasahubble, Instagram"Using a modified version of Groth's algorithm, instead of measuring the triangles made by stars, conservationists were able to measure the distance between the Whale Shark's unique spots."

Kenyans go hi-tech to save endangered Grevy's Zebra
Caroline Chebet, The Standard"The technology comprises a database where all photos taken by citizen scientists are loaded. The system compares photos of the zebras to a database of previously recorded animals, thus saving researchers in the field weeks of manual work."

Spots and Stripes
David Robinson, Oceanographic Magazine"The amazing team at Wildbook created a page for leopard sharks, which allows individuals to upload any encounters they have of leopard sharks, not only at Julian Rocks but anywhere in the world."

How a Portland nonprofit is using artificial intelligence to help save whales, giraffes, zebras
Aimee Rawlins, The Seattle Times"The Wildbook for whales, called Flukebook, encourages collaboration, which is particularly useful for whales that travel long distances because it can be difficult for one research group to effectively monitor one area."