Solution

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Working alongside Dr. Doughty and Ms. Keany, we have envisioned a cross-platform application that can be used as an educational tool in African forest elephant conservation. Our application, which will be available on Android, iOS, and Web, will provide Dr. Doughty and Ms. Keany the platform that they need to share educational information about the elephants, elephant poaching incidents, and their environmental impact, as well as providing a way for the public to take action.

Poaching Numbers

Our application will show current and historical elephant poaching incidents in the central African rainforest via an interactive map.

Environmental Impact

Every time an elephant is poached, its beneficial effects on the forest are lost. This results in a less healthy rainforest which cannot absorb as much CO₂ from the atmosphere. To illustrate this, our application will include a carbon emissions calculator that will relate the rainforests CO₂ absorption capacity through saved elephant lives to the carbon output by an airplane flight.

Public Action

Our app will at all times have easily accessible donation links to established anti-poaching organizations so that our users can get involved. The app can suggest donation amounts in order to save elephants.

System Architecture

Displayed above is a diagram showing the architecture of our solution. We have separated our application into the two main parts: the backend and the frontend. The backend will be the immediate data source for the application. It will retrieve forest elephant poaching data from the MIKE database, an established database tracking illegal elephant killings around the world. The frontend will query the backend for that data and use it to create the tools described above.

Web Demo

Mobile Demo

Our Code

Here is a link to our Git repositories: https://github.com/All-Ears