Inspiration
At the core of the illegal wildlife trafficking is a strong and rapidly expanding demand for a variety of products, especially ingredients for medicine. Much of demand for pangolin scales, rhinoceros horns, tiger bones, and other animal products arises out of the practice of traditional medicine, which uses these ingredients to treat fevers, gout, and other illnesses. Traditional medicines that made from wildlife are taken by hundreds of millions of people. Because of huge demand for wildlife medicinal products in Vietnam and in the world, we want to stop this status by changing the perception of buyers so we can protect the wildlife in the most effective way.
What it does
Anishifter is a solution to detects consumers' searches on wildlife products as medicines on Search Engine and feed them with the search results that provide scientifically proven facts, information on legality, health risks etc… to make these potential buyers change their mind and drive them away from actual purchasing
How we built it
HTML to add the elements to the website, CSS to customize the theme, JavaScript to modify the features.
Challenges we ran into
One of the main difficulties faced by our team was the database. Few of our proposals were not implemented successfully due to data acquisition problems and the time constraint of the hackathon
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Our extension can be added in search engines as it can impact many more users and help to raise public awareness about wildlife conservation.
What we learned
We have learned a lot of wildlife purchasing facts. Besides, through the process of the hackathon, we have also received a lot of useful advises and meaningful knowledge about both wildlife and technology from our mentors.
What's next for Ani-Shifter
In further future, we are planning to get permission from big search engine such as Google, Bing, etc… to add our extension as their tool
