[PCA] Fwd: Wildlife Crime Challenge - Accepting applications starting April 2015

[De Angelis, Patricia]

The focus of this "Wildlife Crime Challenge" appears to be on animals, but
the descriptions suggest that solutions to combat plant trafficking would
also be eligible. The Challenge will begin accepting applications in April
2015 until Summer 2015. You can sign up for email updates about the
application window, at https://wildlifecrimetech.org/about#faq

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Please circulate widely:
To support the development of new and innovative tools to combat wildlife
trafficking, USAID is launching the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge website
today, World Wildlife Day. The Challenge is a competition that aims to
source innovative science and tech-based solutions to combat illegal
trafficking of marine and terrestrial wildlife and is a partnership with
the Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic and TRAFFIC.

The Challenge focuses on four issue areas: understanding and shutting down
transit routes, improving forensic tools and intelligence gathering to
build strong criminal cases, reducing consumer demand for illegal wildlife
products, and fighting corruption. Winners will receive financial,
technical and other assistance to scale their solutions.

http://wildlifecrimetech.org/
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