Hostile Activity Watch Kernel

Combating the Forest and Wildlife Crime is one of the major tasks the state forest departments undertake as part of conservation efforts. Across the states, thousands of incidents of crimes, information related to suspects, and court procedure details are stored in paper-based files. Such information is very valuable to develop preventive measures and intelligence or ensuring justice is rightly delivered.

Hostile Activity Watch Kernel (HAWK) is a cloud-based information Management System designed to manage interlinked databases of wildlife crime, wildlife criminals, and wildlife mortality, and help officials analyse the information and develop actionable intelligence to prevent wildlife crimes. and curb Illegal Wildlife Trade (IWT). The system also has dedicated modules to manage entire documentation procedures regarding these cases. The system connect the entire state forest department in real-time and the access is restricted through access levels.

The HAWK system is a large ERP model cloud-based system which uses mobile and desktop interfaces to manage data. The entire HAWK system is divided into various modules which are interconnected with individual stand-alone functions. This enables the system to be scaled up or down as per the need of the state forest department and ensures customization opportunities for each state to accommodate the changes in procedures and also to accommodate the interface in regional language.  All the data managed by the HAWK system is secured with the government and industry-standard security measures are applied to ensure data security.

A dedicated development and training team at WTI takes care of the system development and staff training across the target state to support the smooth implementation of the system.

The development of HAWK started in 2017 in the state of Kerala by a joint team of the Kerala Forest Department & Wildlife Trust of India. The system was officially launched in 2019 in Kerala and since then it has been the official system of the state forest department.  The implementation of a customized version of HAWK was initiated in 2022 in Karnataka in partnership with the ICT cell of the Karnataka Forest Department and the system is being implemented across the state.

PARTNERS: NTT Data, Fondation Segré, IFAW

For more information about the project: debobroto@wti.org.in