Digital Surveillance: A Novel Approach to Monitoring the Illegal Wildlife Trade

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Sonricker Hansen, Amy L ^a,b,c   Li, Annie ^a,d   Joly, Damien ^e   Mekaru, Sumiko ^a,b,f   Brownstein, John S ^a,b,g,h  

^a HARVARD MIT DIVISION OF HEALTH SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY   (United States)

^d CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e Wildlife Conservation Society   (Canada)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; ELEPHANT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FELIDAE; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PANGOLIN; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOUTH AFRICA; TIGER; UNITED STATES; VIET NAM; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CRIME; DATA COLLECTION; DATA MINING; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; INTERNET;

ELEPHANTIDAE; RHINOCEROS;

EID: 84870952443     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0051156     Document Type: Article

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