#TEAMWILDLIFE

#TEAMWILDLIFE - 6NDPs

Inspiration

The illegal wildlife trade is currently a hot topic around the world. Vietnam is one of the countries with an alarming rate of illegal wildlife trade in cyberspace. Therefore, wildlife is in dire need of help from people who love technology and care about nature. And we believe that only technological solutions can prevent this situation. ZooHackathon Vietnam 2021 - a programming competition for wildlife - where we have the opportunity to realize our technology ideas, as well as the opportunity to present the solution to this problem to the public in order to improve public awareness of wildlife protection issues. In addition, participating in the contest is also an opportunity to improve knowledge, experience, assert yourself, bring breakthrough ideas to solve practical and urgent problems today.

What it does

This website application not only provides us an easily accessible interface for everyone to report wildlife trading activities in thier social life safely and for the authorities to connect quickly to the reported cases; but also bring us helpful, essential knowledge about wild animals and their habitat.

How we built it

After discussing about the potential of each of us, we decided to built it through website application using HTML, CSS3, React for Frontend development; NodeJS for Backend Scripting Language and MongoDB for storing users' report. About frontend, we first started design prototype in Figma then we transformed it into React component and composed everything. About backend, we decided to use NodeJS because it share the same language as frontend, which made it easier for our team to work closely with each other.

Challenges we ran into

We lack of experience to build such system just in a short amount of time. In the COVID-19 situation, one of us have to work remotely, which create many communication and cordination difficulties.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Although we have been through many ups and downs, we still managed to bring our website application to the world for combating wildlife trading activities and raising awareness about the wild animals.

What we learned

We learned a lot about the illegal wildlife trading and we could improve our awareness of wildlife protection issues. Moreover, we also acquired many tech-knowledge and soft skills through this project

What's next for #TEAMWILDLIFE

We will still research on the wildlife issues and provides improvement for preventing everchanging wildlife trading activities in the future. For instance, we may create a Chrome extension for auto reporting trading post on social media. We will consider the need of conservatives organizations to improve management and analysis dashboard.