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Following on from our launch of Spanish, we are pleased to announce that WILDLABS is now available in French!
15 July 2026
Learn about the 16 selected projects that are working to innovate, scale, and adopt conservation technology for this year’s WILDLABS Awards.
7 July 2026
You're invited to the July 2026 WILDLABS Variety Hour. Join us to hear about how satellites, drones, and AI are helping diagnose mangrove health; an AI-powered decision support platform for Marine Protected Areas in...
20 July 2026
Our 2026 report is here, drawing on five years of community-sourced data to explore how the field is evolving, where progress is being made, and where collective action is still needed.
16 June 2026
Get more involved in the WILDLABS community, build your network, and leave an impact on your field by becoming a WILDLABS Group Leader.
24 June 2026
Conversations & Questions
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| Airborne synthetic aperture radar for detection of snares sounds really effective! I would love to learn more about this. Dogs are also amazing a detecting snares but of course... |
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AI for Conservation, Drones, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Wildlife Crime | 2 hours 13 minutes ago | |
| Hi Everyone!! I’m a mature student at Columbia Climate school in a 1 year MA programme with a particular interest in illegal wildlife trade, conservation dogs and community-led... |
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Community Base | 3 hours 32 minutes ago | |
| Hi Axel, thanks for the response and sorry for my delayed answer!On backhaul: our setup was fairly simple. We had a single RAK7289 gateway on Cousin Island (Seychelles) with a... |
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Connectivity | 4 hours 19 minutes ago | |
| Somehow I forgot to add the most important graphs!?!?! Here are other results from our earlier survey!!! |
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Open Source Solutions | 5 hours 9 minutes ago | |
| This Wednesday, 22, at 10 am EST, we are presenting the report "Advancing Amazon Conservation Through Digital Technologies" in a webminar.Speakers include: Michel Kerf, World Bank... |
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Latin America Community, Emerging Tech | 22 hours 31 minutes ago | |
| We're looking for additional co-leaders to help support and grow the WILDLABS Edge Computing group. If you'd like to help facilitate... |
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Edge Computing | 1 day 9 hours ago | |
| Starting in July 2025, I @ahmedjunaid (SAVE THE FROGS! & Save Reptiles) am happy to say that it has been a great journey alongside my... |
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eDNA & Genomics | 1 day 13 hours ago | |
| Hello Matyas! I'm interested in the wildlife welfare technology Google Groups you mentioned, but it came back as "content unavailable" when I tried the URL you shared. Is there an... |
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Community Base | 5 days ago | |
| UPDATE on Automatization of a Contact-Free Saliva Sampler for Wildlife ConservationHi everyone,Quick update on our project one year after granted a WILDLABS Award 2025.We were not... |
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Emerging Tech, eDNA & Genomics | 5 days 3 hours ago | |
| I am interested! I have a non-profit that teaches the community how to build a sustainable ecosystem with animals and the planet, contribute to biodiversity documentation, and... |
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Community Base | 5 days 6 hours ago | |
| We're excited to be co-organizing a special session at the upcoming Acoustical Society of America meeting, together with colleagues from... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation | 5 days 9 hours ago | |
| Hi all,I'm Maggie Bliss - ecologist, founder of EarthPulse, where we're building a way to read ecosystem health from animal behavioral time... |
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Community Base | 6 days 5 hours ago |
Learn & Teach
Browse our selection of self-led conservation technology courses. Learn at your own pace, connect with other participants, and create new courses of your own.
Connected Conservation Foundation scales technology to protect nature—for people and planet. We work with partners to equip Protected Areas with digital tools, boost local community education and create local tech-based careers.
Latest courses
FREE Drone & GIS Mini Course from GeoWing Academy
FREE Drone & GIS Mini Course from GeoWing Academy
FREE Drone & GIS Mini Course from GeoWing Academy
QGIS For Wildlife Crime Data Analysis
QGIS For Wildlife Crime Data Analysis
QGIS For Wildlife Crime Data Analysis
Protected Area Technician (PAT) Training
Protected Area Technician (PAT) Training
Protected Area Technician (PAT) Training
Fantastic Fields: Field Data Collection the Smart Way
Fantastic Fields: Field Data Collection the Smart Way
Fantastic Fields: Field Data Collection the Smart Way
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Brazilian conservation biologist that work with camera traps, niche models, and mammals.
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Dendroyka
Building Landscape, land conservation software. Loves talking geospatial tech, SaaS product development, and land protection.
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Currently doing environmental education and management and the university of Zambia
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A full stack developer looking to participate in biodiversity conservation, preserving ecosystems in natural world.
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
postdoc @ Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
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I'm an 18 year old from Midway, Utah, working on River Otter Monitoring on the middle Provo River!
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Isaac Ntabala
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Je suis spécialiste en technologies de conservation, avec une expertise en SIG, télédétection, biomonitoring et gestion des données environnementales. J'accompagne les professionnels et les étudiants dans la maîtrise d'outils tels que QGIS, ArcGIS, Google Earth Engine, SMART ...
Beckie Garbett
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Wildlife Biologist - Big Cats, Vultures - Communicator for Conservation - Policy and Cons. Practice
Andrew Mulani
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A passionate wildlife conservation professional working in Kenya under the Mountain Bongo Breeding and re-wilding Project.
Itai Alkutzer
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Animal Sciences Student | Wildlife Ecology & Conservation Tech Enthusiast
Santosh
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Founded in 2014, Crosslinks Foundation is an innovative charity organization registered in India. Our mission is to harness technologies for the social sector with a focus on climate change, sustainable agriculture and wildlife conservation.
Erfan Firouzi
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an environmental storyteller and natural history communicator working to reconnect people with nature through biodiversity education, storytelling, and conservation action.
Ideas & Updates
You're invited to the July 2026 WILDLABS Variety Hour. Join us to hear about how satellites, drones, and AI are helping diagnose mangrove health; an AI-powered decision support platform for Marine Protected Areas in...
20 July 2026
Article
Following on from our launch of Spanish, we are pleased to announce that WILDLABS is now available in French!
15 July 2026
The 191st meeting will be held 15-17 December 2026 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel as an in-person meeting with no remote participation. The meeting will include over 30 special sessions covering all areas of...
15 July 2026
Community Spaces
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Conservation tech work doesn't stop after data is collected in the field. Equally as important to success is navigating data management and processing tools. For the many community members who deal with enormous datasets, this group will be an invaluable resource to trade advice, discuss workflows and tools, and share what works for you.
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- BAM (Biodiversity Around Me) widget
I am happy to introduce and share our new project BAM, to make open biodiversity data easily accessible to everyone, everywhere!
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Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in the field to analyse information collected by wildlife conservationists, from camera traps and satellite images to audio recordings. AI can learn how to identify which photos out of thousands contain rare species; or pinpoint an animal call out of hours of field recordings - hugely reducing the manual labour required to collect vital conservation data. The AI For Conservation group is intended to unite and inspire all WILDLABS community members—whether already involved in AI for conservation, or not—to understand how to use and/or directly contribute to open-source research and development efforts.
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- Deep Voice - A Free Online Platform for AI-Based Marine Mammal Sound Detection and Classification
Passive acoustic monitoring floods marine researchers with data that can take months to annotate by hand, and the AI models that could help have long required Python setup, GitHub repos, and complex config files. Funded by the WILDLABS Awards 2025, Deep Voice removes that barrier with a free, public web app that turns marine mammal sound detection into a simple drag-and-drop task.
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- Boring Fund Report for Creating Global Open-Access Ground-Truth Datasets for Insect Monitoring
Improving the computer vision detection model for the Mothbox, an automatic insect monitoring tool from Dinalab
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- Custom Hydrophone Records Dolphins
Welcome to the official group forum for our virtual course, Build Your Own Data Logger. This is your space to engage with course instructors Akiba and Jacinta from Freaklabs, find help and resources for each module, collaborate and chat with your fellow course participants, and share your progress on your own Data Logger project!
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- Open-Source Solutions for Amphibian Passive Acoustic Monitoring: Lessons from Patagonia
Monitoring amphibians across the temperate forests of Patagonia presents significant logistical and technical challenges. Remote locations, harsh environmental conditions, and the large volumes of data generated by Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) can make long-term biodiversity surveys difficult to implement and maintain. In addition, environmental data often relies on multiple independent devices, increasing costs, complexity, and logistical demands in remote field conditions. Through the WILDLABS Awards 2025, our team explored practical ways to address these challenges by combining open-source hardware, environmental sensing, and AI-assisted acoustic analysis.
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- Camera Trap Suggestions for Time-lapse Seabird Monitoring?
Looking for a place to discuss camera trap troubleshooting, compare models, collaborate with members working with other technologies like machine learning and bioacoustics, or share and exchange data from your camera trap research? Get involved in our Camera Traps group! All are welcome whether you are new to camera trapping, have expertise from the field to share, or are curious about how your skill sets can help those working with camera traps.
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- Practical Considerations for Camera Trap Photography
Trail Cameras & Custom Camera Traps: Technology, Ethics & Strategies for Success
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- TrailCam - Browser tool for preparing trail camera observations
Anyone can become a citizen scientist - even experts! If you're excited about exploring new areas of conservation tech, contributing to projects, or developing and launching your own citizen science projects or apps, this is the group for you.
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- Synthesis of Insights / Learning session 14: Rights of Nature by Tribal and First Nations
Synthesis of insights of our 14th online learning session, using dialogue to explore the workings, developments, (im)possibilities, and emerging insights of diverse approaches and praxes for Co-creation with the More-than-Human world
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Behind the Buzz Season 1
From Data to Decisions
Join us for Season 1 of Behind the Buzz, a new series where we break down complex topics with leading experts in a friendly, open space. This season, we’ll demystify key global policy processes and explore how to engage with them to support integrating critical conservation data at national and global scales, using animal movement as a lens to ground discussions.
Find these events and more in our conservation technology calendar!