As Secretariat for Wildlife Insights, WildMon strengths its approach to integrated biodiversity monitoring
Since November 2025, WildMon has officially taken on the role of Secretariat for Wildlife Insights, the leading global platform for managing and analyzing camera trap data.
Wildlife Insights is a consortium partnership between World Wildlife Fund-US, Wildlife Conservation Society, the Smithsonian Institution, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, Conservation International, Map of Life at Yale University, the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, WildMon, and Google. Using AI-powered tools, the global platform helps conservationists, researchers, and communities identify species faster, improve data sharing, and turn wildlife images into actionable conservation insights.
As Secretariat, WildMon provides operational, governance, financial, and strategic leadership to support the platform’s continued growth and long-term sustainability. With camera traps already playing a critical role in biodiversity data collection and management, this role enables Wildlife Insights’ global camera trap data platform into closer alignment with WildMon’s multi-modal monitoring approach, creating stronger connections between data, technology, and local communities.
“Wildlife Insights was built to help the global conservation community turn camera trap data into actionable conservation insights. With WildMon serving as Secretariat, the platform is well positioned to continue growing as a trusted, collaborative resource for the people and organizations working to protect nature.” — Dr. Jorge Ahumada, Executive Director, Wildlife Insights
This partnership will deepen our engagement with a global community of front-line conservationists, help shape the future of a platform already used by hundreds of organizations and built on millions of species observations, and strengthen our commitment to equitable, field-ready tools.
Wildlife Insights Impact
Bear and Tapir monitoring in the Tabaconas-Namballe National Sanctuary, Peru
In Peru’s Tabaconas-Namballe National Sanctuary, Wildlife Insights supports monitoring of emblematic species such as the Andean bear and mountain tapir, helping local teams turn camera trap images into conservation action. Through a collaboration with WWF Peru, sanctuary staff, and SERNANP, the platform has streamlined data processing, accelerated species identification, and strengthened the ability to track wildlife patterns, assess threats, and inform conservation decisions in a critical montane forest ecosystem.
Establishing an ecological corridor for the conservation and management of the Jaguar in Colombia
In Guaviare, Colombia, Wildlife Insights has helped WWF Colombia, local partners, and communities validate a proposed 75,000-hectare jaguar corridor by streamlining camera trap data processing and analysis. The platform confirmed the presence of jaguars and other key species, while also making biodiversity data easier to share and use across teams and with local communities—supporting community-led monitoring, ecological restoration, and efforts to reduce human-jaguar conflict.