Kalev spoke yesterday at the Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking Symposium at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's headquarters here in DC on how GDELT monitors the global world and its deep reach into the world of wildlife crime. Keynotes at the conference included Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Director of the NGA Robert Cardillo, Director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service Daniel Ashe, Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State Of Bureau Of International Narcotics And Law Enforcement Affairs Daniel Foote,  Chief Of Law and Policy Division At Department of Justice Karen Wardzinski, Secretary General of CITES John Scanlon, Geographer of the United States Lee Schwartz and numerous others representing a cross section of the governmental and NGO sectors.