Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring http://direct.wems-initiative.org text/html http://direct.wems-initiative.org/p1#a_88 United Nations University-Institute for Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) in partnership with Lusaka Agreement Task Force, ASEAN-Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN) and ITC-University of Twente, presented the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) initiative on 6th March 2013 during the sidelines of the 16th Conference of Parties of the CITES Convention held in Bangkok. The event was presided by the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism of the United Republic of Tanzania Hon. Ambass ... text/html http://direct.wems-initiative.org/p48#a_87 United Nations University-Institute for Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) in partnership with Lusaka Agreement Task Force, ASEAN-Wildlife Enforcement Network (ASEAN-WEN) and ITC-University of Twente, presented the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) initiative on 6th March 2013 during the sidelines of the 16th Conference of Parties of the CITES Convention held in Bangkok. The event was presided by the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism of the United Republic of Tanzania Hon. Ambass ... text/html http://direct.wems-initiative.org/p1#a_85 Bytes beyond Borders: Strengthening Transboundary Information Sharing on Wildlife Crime through the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) initiative Scholars, practitioners, government officials and UN agencies will convene at a CITES COP16 side event to address the problem of transboundary wildlife crime, and ways of combating such crimes with advanced technology. In particular, the event will highlight the WEMS initiative, a collaborative project based at UNU with the objectiv ... text/html http://direct.wems-initiative.org/p1#a_84 Download a summary of the project activities carried out in Africa from inception to present. text/html http://direct.wems-initiative.org/p47#a_83 REGIONAL TRAINING/REVIEW WORKSHOP ON WILDLIFE ENFORCEMENT MONITORING SYSTEM – WEMS (NAIROBI, 13th - 14th OCTOBER 2011) Introduction LATF in collaboration with UNU-Japan and the ITC – University – Twente (the Netherlands) held the first training workshop on WEMS in May 2011 as a first step in implementation of the WEMS at the Lusaka Agreement Task Force and the L ... text/html http://direct.wems-initiative.org/p47#a_82 WEMS Training Workshop Nairobi, May 23 - May 25, 2011 The Lusaka Agreement Task Force (LATF) in collaboration with the United Nations University and the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) of the University of Twente organized a regional training on Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS). The training drew participants from Parties to the Lusaka Agreement at the headquarters of Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) in Nairobi, Kenya from May 23 to May 25, 2011. ... text/html http://direct.wems-initiative.org/p1#a_81 Read how UNU-IAS's Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) will be enhanced through its partnership with Harvard University's open-source online application, WorldMap, in the Harvard Gazette. WEMS is an environmental governance and policy tool that aims to monitor and protect wild fauna and flora from illegal wildlife trade. The project began in 2011 as a joint effort carried out by UNU, the Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC) at the University of T ... text/html http://direct.wems-initiative.org/p1#a_80 Date: 13th -17th February 2012 Venue: Dusit Thani Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand Title Enhancement of wildlife-enforcement information sharing, governance and policy research through the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System – WEMS-Africa: A case study. PresentersMr. Karl Karugaba (Lusaka Agreement Task Force, Nairobi, Kenya) Mr. Remi Chandran (Visiting Research Fellow (UNU-IAS) & PhD Researcher, ITC-University of Twente, Netherlands) Abstract On 18th July 2011, Dr. Noah Wekesa, the M ... text/html http://direct.wems-initiative.org/p42#a_77 Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis and UNU-IAS collaborate to enhance spatial dimensions of Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) and the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at cooperation and collaboration on advancing technologies for online spatial data sharing and web mapping services regarding the Wildlife Enforcement Monitor ... text/html http://direct.wems-initiative.org/p1#a_76 The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) and the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA) at Harvard University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding aimed at cooperation and collaboration on advancing technologies for online spatial data sharing and web mapping services regarding the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS). WEMS, a database of wildlife crime developed by UNU, is now being used to support the Lusaka Agreement on Cooperative Enforcement operat ...