Sep 17, 2021
CombSGPO: A new algorithm to protect wildlife
Aravind Venugopal , Elizabeth Bondi , Harshavardhan Kamarthi , Keval Dholakia , Balaraman Ravindran , Milind Tambe
Poaching and illegal smuggling of wildlife have remained a cause of concern for wildlife authorities. As per the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Wildlife trade poses the second-biggest direct threat to the survival of species after habitat destruction. As per the study conducted by TRAFFIC, a leading wildlife trade monitoring networking of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), around 1,11,312 individual tortoises or freshwater turtles (11,000 a year) have been illegally traded across India since 2009.

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