A Context-based Knowledge Acquisition System for Understanding Relations between Endangered Species and Daily Phenomena

This paper presents a knowledge acquisition system that analyzes and visualizes the influence networks around endangered species by various contexts, which can be applied for environmental science, social science, and global-level real-world issue solutions such as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This system is designed for a purpose of making people consider ongoing environmental issues visually and encouraging individuals and organizations to contemplate and take actions for remediation of the problems. This system enables people to create opportunities to deepen and expand individuals' comprehensive knowledge on environmental issues surrounding endangered species, to promote Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) activities, and to observe significant hidden connections such as butterfly effect. The system also aims to support “evidence-based policy making” for the local government. In this paper, we examine the feasibility of our system by applying to the analysis of ecological effects of human activities to gorilla's life.