Jackson Wild announces official selections for 2024 World Wildlife Day film showcase

Jackson Wild has announced the official film selections for the 2024 World Wildlife Day Film Showcase in partnership with the Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

This year’s official Showcase selections were curated from a group of over 75 project entries and nominations from 17 countries around the world. In keeping with this year’s theme, “Digital Innovation for Wildlife Conservation,” the showcase will highlight films, mobile apps, games and VR/360 projects featuring the latest applications of digital technologies in wildlife conservation and trade and the impact on ecosystems and communities around the world of certain digital interventions.

“The films in this year’s showcase are truly inspiring and demonstrate the extraordinary power of technological innovation in service of conservation and impact storytelling,” said Geoff Daniels, Executive

Director of Jackson Wild. “Along with the online games, apps and immersive experiences we’ve selected, I’m certain audiences around the world will be more deeply engaged than ever before and moved to help address the most urgent environmental issues of our day.”

This year, viewers will vote for their favorite project for the Audience Award. The winning filmmaker will be invited to join us at this year’s Jackson Wild Media Awards ceremony later this Fall.

The 2024 World Wildlife Day Showcase is the eighth film competition jointly organized as part of the annual World Wildlife Day celebrations by Jackson Wild, the Secretariat of the Convention on

International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), to inspire personal responsibility and stewardship for endangered creatures across the world.

Official Selections were announced at the UN World Wildlife Day 2024 event at UN Headquarters in New York, NY. The films and other media will be available for free online streaming through the end of the year at watch.eventive.org/2024wwd.

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OFFICIAL SELECTION FILMS

Creating The First 3D Scan of an Endangered Species | Explorers In The Field National Geographic Society’s Impact Story Lab

Eco-Hack!

Speculative Films

Wild Crime: How Old Cell Phones Are Protecting the Rainforest Seeker Media and Vox Media, LLC.

Eyes In The Forest

Produced by Ryan Ffrench, for Google Earth and Wildlife Insights

How New Technology Could Save An Endangered Species

Jeff Corwin, Luke Grossaint, Stephen Lambert, Colin Penny, Dean Fisher, Ophidia Arts and Hearst MPG in partnership with the International Fund for Animal Welfare

I Wonder: Creating Space for Wonder

National Geographic Society’s Impact Story Lab

NASA Joins Jane Goodall to Conserve Chimp Habitats

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the Jane Goodall Institute.

Octopus Odyssey

Schmidt Ocean Institute

Older Than Trees

A Good Story film, presented by Save Our Seas Foundation in collaboration with Sea Change Project.

The Return of Nóouhàh-Toka’na (Swift Fox)

Roshan Patel, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Tracking Black Bears | Exploring with GIS

National Geographic Society’s Impact Story Lab

Wild Crime: This New AI Forensic Tool is Fighting Illegal Logging Seeker Media and Vox Media, LLC.

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OFFICIAL SELECTION MEDIA — APPS, GAMES, VR/360

BeastBox

Ben Mirin, Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Conservation International VR Experiences Conservation International

Expedition Everest: The Science – 360

National Geographic Society’s Impact Story Lab

NeMO-Net

NASA with companion film Explorer Mindset: Citizen Science, courtesy of National Geographic Society’s Impact Story Lab

Merlin Bird ID

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

NatureEye

Nature Eye