Webinar | FloraGuard: Tackling the Illegal Trade in Endangered Plants Event
- Time:
- 12:30 - 14:00
- Date:
- 30 October 2020
- Venue:
- Online webinar
For more information regarding this event, please email [email protected] .
Event details
Join a cross-disciplinary team combining Criminology, Computer Science, Law Enforcement and Conservation Science, to discuss the findings of a study harnessing the power of AI tools, to investigate the Internet-facilitated illegal trade in endangered plants.
Led by the University of Southampton and partnered with UK Border Force and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the FloraGuard project is a cross disciplinary study into the illegal online trade of endangered plants.
This online webinar will present the methodology, key findings and recommendations of the three year study as published in the FloraGuard report .
With research indicating that the internet has greatly expanded the possibilities for illegal plant trafficking, posing an increasingly major threat to biodiversity, challenges exist in controlling and preventing this criminal activity.
The webinar will feature as speakers: Dr. Anita Lavorgna, Associate Professor in Criminology and Dr. Stuart E. Middleton, Lecturer in Computer Science, at the University of Southampton, Maurizio Sajeva, Professor of Plant Ecology at the University of Palermo, and Guy Clarke, Higher Officer, UK Border Force CITES Team. Dr Carly Cowell, Senior Policy Advisor (UK CITES Scientific Authority for Flora), at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will serve as moderator and will also join the Q+A Panel at the end of the session.