When you can’t confidently identify what you’re looking at, you can’t manage risk. The same identification gap drives illegal wildlife and timber trade, allows invasive species to slip past detection, and complicates One Health responses where speed matters. Genetic testing can provide the answer—but sending samples to a molecular lab is slow, expensive, and often impractical. NABIT brings lab-grade identification into the field with a handheld device, delivering results fast enough to guide real-time decisions.