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The Variety Hour: August
Stephanie O'Donnell
Join us this month to hear more about the new £3.6m funding call from UKRI supporting innovation in AI for biodiversity monitoring, discover Gundi, a technology platform that allows conservationists to seamlessly...
14 August 2023
Article / Community Base
Sustained Effort: Ten Percent
Ellie Warren
In this thought piece and the finale of our Sustained Effort series, WILDLABS editor Ellie Warren discusses why sustainability is such a difficult challenge to tackle, and why the enormity of that challenge is the very...
16 August 2023
Article / Biologging | Data management and processing tools + 1
In this Conservation Tech Showcase case study from 2022 Conservation Tech Award winner MoveApps, you’ll learn how they’re breaking new ground in animal movement research with tracking data analysis tools hosted by the...
17 August 2023
Funding / AI for Conservation | Emerging Tech + 3
Deadline Approaching: Conservation Tech Award
Jordan Steward
Are you using or creating tech to protect wildlife? We want to support your organization through two $15,000 grants!
15 May 2023
Article / Community Base | Acoustic Monitoring + 10
#Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge: Judges' Panel Honorees
WILDLABS Team
Please join us in celebrating this year’s top #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge Honorees as chosen by our panel of leading conservation organization judges, and enjoy the story contained within these entries about how our...
4 August 2023
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| Hi WildLabs community, I support a few wildlife areas in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. The terrain can be very challenging here with... |
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Connectivity, Emerging Tech, Protected Area Management Tools | 3 minutes 49 seconds ago | |
| Lovely to hear from you Kylie :) Thanks so much for contributing your thoughts and ideas towards this. |
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East Africa Community | 1 day ago | |
| Super duper getting that mesh network working. Valuable resources. I have been working with IP camera systems since 2008 and have tried a lot of them. Ubiquiti itself is a great... |
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Citizen Science | 2 days 1 hour ago | |
| For camera trap data processing, check out Megadetector, Wildlife Insights, Zamba Cloud, etc. which are awesome for expediting the processing! |
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Drones | 4 days 20 hours ago | |
| As promised, I've pushed the code to github today, the URL is: Note, this is somewhat of a premature announcement (to keep my promise) because I still need to add a bunch of... |
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Acoustic Monitoring | 4 days 22 hours ago | |
| Frank's idea of using 2 camera traps is inspired!I've fiddled with cheap camera traps a bit, and some (most?) of them use a low power, inaccurate timer for the time lapse function... |
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Camera Traps | 6 days 7 hours ago | |
| Hi Ian,I have hours of an unidentified creature recorded during overnight recording sessions with mutliple hydrophones. We think it is platypus but there is nothing to compare... |
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Acoustic Monitoring | 6 days 18 hours ago | |
| Brendan is a great interviewer; reach out to him if you have any interest in this topic! |
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Climate Change | 6 days 21 hours ago | |
| Thanks folks. Will go check and let you know what I learn.Mike |
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Camera Traps | 6 days 23 hours ago | |
| Thank you for your suggestion, Collin. It's not my decision, but I'll pass it on |
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Camera Traps, Drones | 1 week ago | |
| Hi CaitlinI'd recommend https://naturecounters.com/ who from past experience will work with you to come up with a good trap design. Their approach is to use an IR to detect when... |
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Biologging | 1 week ago | |
| Graeme, Maybe speak to a web IT expert. You may be able to have an interface on the webpage which provides the login credentials to the camera, but then passes the image (and... |
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Camera Traps, Sensors | 1 week ago |
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In this Conservation Tech Showcase case study from 2022 Conservation Tech Award winner MoveApps, you’ll learn how they’re breaking new ground in animal movement research with tracking data analysis tools hosted by the...
17 August 2023
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Sustained Effort: Ten Percent
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In this thought piece and the finale of our Sustained Effort series, WILDLABS editor Ellie Warren discusses why sustainability is such a difficult challenge to tackle, and why the enormity of that challenge is the very...
16 August 2023
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The Variety Hour: August
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Join us this month to hear more about the new £3.6m funding call from UKRI supporting innovation in AI for biodiversity monitoring, discover Gundi, a technology platform that allows conservationists to seamlessly...
14 August 2023
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In this Conservation Tech Showcase case study from 2022 Conservation Tech Award winner MoveApps, you’ll learn how they’re breaking new ground in animal movement research with tracking data analysis tools hosted by the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior.
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Our team works to make WILDLABS’ events engaging, fun, and informative. From Tech Tutors to Virtual Meetups to Community Calls, our events will help you learn, connect, and explore new conservation tech ideas.
Tech Tutors Season 4
East Africa
Are you looking for ways to grow your conservation technology knowledge and skills this year? Tech Tutors: East Africa is your opportunity to learn practical skills and steps that will become the building blocks you need to push your conservation tech work and research forward!
Our live season of Tech Tutors runs through to the end of May! For our next live event, join us on Thursday 11th May, 4PM EAT|2PM BST where Dr. Richard Lamprey, a consultant with IUCN, will answer the question: 'How do I get started with systematic reconnaissance flights (SRFs) for wildlife surveys?'. This tutorial will explore the different aspects of aerial surveys, including their significance, ways to ensure precision and accuracy, techniques for counting from aerial platforms, methods of analyzing SRF survey data, and much more!
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EarthRanger: All you need to know!
Netty Cheruto
3 August 2022
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