Patrolling

Using a smart phone for patrolling takes a bit of practice
Regular patrolling helps to detect illegal forest clearing

Having ‘boots on the ground’ in the form of patrolling wildlife wardens in vulnerable forest areas often already reduces poaching threats to wildlife. As in the Philippine Cockatoo Conservation Program, efforts will be made to convert former poachers into wardens. KFI employs a smartphone-based patrol and monitoring system that allows quick mapping of threats and wildlife observations in the field, and prepares reports and maps that make rapid response for law-enforcement bodies possible. Since these systems are quite new (and KFI was one of the first organizations to use them in the field in Palawan), they are constantly improved.