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<div>Whale Guardians is an NGO that combines whale sighting data with shipping data (AIS) to help reduce whale-ship strikes, particularly in areas near ports.
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<div>Over the past year, we have mapped 27 whale-sensitive areas and translated the underlying data into usable coordinates, which are now available through an API.
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<div>We are working with ports, shipowners, voyage optimisation software providers and weather-routing solutions to integrate this data into existing shipping workflows.
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<div>We use AIS data to
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<div>1) analyse vessel traffic in whale sensitive port regions and
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<div>2) to give feedback to our shipowners how their fleet is performing in whale sensitive areas
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<div>We have an annual cost of over €30k to run our application (AIS, API, platform cost,...). This is one of the less "sexy" parts of our NGO to invest in but very much needed.
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<div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brnCealGvk0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Nature Integrated Routing for Whales</a>
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