Mission
Statement
Our mission is to promote
the development of a worldwide environmental monitoring
network.
CyberTracker Conservation
aims to make a fundamental contribution to our
understanding of complex ecosystems by providing innovative solutions to
monitor the environment and manage the utilisation of natural resources.
We seek to enable and further the protection of biodiversity, forestry,
agriculture, sea fisheries and environmental security.
How we will
achieve this:
The CyberTracker is the most
efficient way to gather large quantities of geo-referenced data for
field observations, even by non-literate users. Involving local
communities in key areas of biodiversity, the CyberTracker combines
indigenous knowledge with state-of-the-art computer and satellite
technology.
CyberTracker Conservation is the
non-profit organisation through which our conservation goals and
activities are facilitated.
Objectives
and Activities
1. Implementation
of Field Projects:
- Distribute the
CyberTracker software as Greenware. Greenware is
free software that benefits conservation.
- Provide training and
technical support to CyberTracker field projects.
- Facilitate
communication amongst CyberTracker projects over
the Internet.
- Facilitate funding
for CyberTracker field projects.
- Initiate projects
that range from intensive monitoring of
endangered species to large-scale regional
programmes and long-term monitoring of
ecosystems.
- Initiate examples in
conservation, forestry, farming and sea fisheries
to cover all major forms of utilisation of the
ecosystem.
- Co-ordinate a
worldwide CyberTracker network.
2. Economic,
Social and Cultural Benefits:
- Create employment
opportunities in local communities, thereby
providing social benefits and giving conservation
an economic value.
- Using the
CyberTracker provides prestige to the work of
field rangers, enhancing their motivation and
self-esteem.
- Traditional knowledge
may soon be irretrievably lost. Giving
traditional knowledge a value in a modern context
will help to revitalise aspects of traditional
culture for the future.
- The art of tracking
may well be the origin of science. Using the
CyberTracker to develop tracking into a modern
science may have far-reaching implications for
conservation.
3. Research and
Development:
- Ongoing software
development to stay at the cutting edge of high
technology.
- Develop new
management tools and methods to monitor the
environment.
- Combine CyberTracker
field data with satellite images to monitor
ecosystems at a level of detail not possible
before.
- Develop new methods
to minimise the need for technical support in
remote wilderness areas.
- Ongoing field
research on traditional tracking skills.
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