$10M XPRIZE Rainforest Launched

XPRIZE

We are excited to announce the $10M XPRIZE Rainforest has launched!

You can visit the official page for the prize here and read the press release here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEYHUEGNgXk

Thank you so much to everyone in the community for all your contributions. You helped make this XPRIZE possible and we can't thank you enough! We're looking forward to seeing the impact this competition will have on rainforests around the world.

Registration for XPRIZE Rainforest is now open, if you would like to form a team!

Let us know if you have any questions (you can also find the prize FAQ here), and follow the competition's progress with #RainforestXPRIZE on social media.

mghadaffi_mnor

Good effort to catalogue biodiversity in the rain forest before its all gone due to climate change. But there is more imminent threat to the biodiversity that the ever-changing climate poses - illegal poaching of flora and fauna. In Malaysia, our Malayan tigers are in the brink of extinction and some wild cats in Cambodia had totally been wiped out in just a few years all due to illegal poaching activities. Forest rangers are usually ill equipped to fight poaching and can only cover cover limited expanse of the forest. XPRIZE should also in the future promote competition that develops technology for the preservation of biodiversity and to stamp wild life poaching. Smart system to detect unwarranted human activities, traps and snare that hurts and kills endangered animals - and possibly disarm the trap or snare once detected.