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The State of Conservation Technology: What Five Years of Data Tell Us
Vanesa Reyes and 2 more
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
Article / Community Base
Whether you missed a parallel session in Lima, couldn't make the journey to Peru, or simply want to revisit the most inspiring main stage moments, you can now access the recordings and presentations generously shared by...
9 June 2026
Article / Community Base | Early Career + 2
Introducing the 2026 Cohort: Women in Conservation Technology Programme, Tanzania 2026
WILDLABS Team and 1 more
We're delighted to announce the launch of our fourth Women in Conservation Technology Programme, in partnership with the Grumeti Fund and with support from the JRS Biodiversity Foundation. Join us in welcoming the 2026...
23 June 2026
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Applications Open: Become a 2026-2027 WILDLABS Group Leader
Vanesa Reyes and 1 more
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
Article / Community Base | Latin America Community
WILDLABS Translation
WILDLABS Team and 1 more
We are excited to announce our new multilingual translation functionality on WILDLABS, starting with Spanish. Read more about our new content translation options and AI translation abilities.
23 April 2026
Conversations & Questions
Akiba
Community Manager
Add your voice to our conservation tech community
The WILDLABS community forums are a fountain of knowledge. By joining discussions, we can understand what the real problems are, collaborate with people with the right expertise to solve those problems, and work together to craft real solutions. We hope you'll join the conversation!
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| I'm Jessica Inga Castro, founder of Bosques Saludables — a platform launching in August 2026 in Cashingari, Satipo, Junín, Peru (Selva Central) that registers native and... |
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Community Base | 39 minutes 27 seconds ago | |
| Our open, crowd-sourced dataset of 13,359 annotated vocalizations of nocturnal migrating birds in Europe is officially live! 🦉... |
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Acoustics | 7 hours 30 minutes ago | |
| Hi Tabitha, What recording settings were you using when you saw these differences? I've measured the consumption across some different firmware versions and I can't see any... |
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Acoustics | 2 years 1 month ago | |
| Hi everyone,I'm hoping to tap into the community's experience with GPS tracking technologies for birds in particularly challenging... |
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Animal Movement | 22 hours 22 minutes ago | |
| Have you received any feedback on this? I am also looking for similar advice for a crow species. |
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Animal Movement | 22 hours 46 minutes ago | |
| 🌍 The Climate Change AI Virtual Summer School is back (Jul 19-Aug 22, 2026), and registration is now open!The program consists of five... |
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AI for Conservation, Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Latin America Community | 1 day 1 hour ago | |
| Thank you so much Luke! |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Edge Computing | 1 day 3 hours ago | |
| This is an important topic and the wear leveling analysis is correct. A few additional points from embedded systems experience:The Raspberry Pi SD corruption problem is well-... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 1 day 19 hours ago | |
| Good concept and the component choices are sensible for a low-cost prototype. A few technical observations from working with similar architectures in remote African deployments:On... |
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Open Source Solutions | 1 day 19 hours ago | |
| Great guide — this is exactly the kind of resource the community needs. A few additions from a hardware embedded perspective that might be worth including:On PIR sensors — the... |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps | 1 day 19 hours ago | |
| I can share some practical perspective on the LoRa camera trap architecture for remote high-relief terrain with poor connectivity.The core concept — cameras not connected to... |
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Camera Traps | 1 day 19 hours ago | |
| On the microcontroller approach for power gating the Pi — this is a well-proven pattern and worth doing even if the idle power is already low, because it also gives you a hardware... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 1 day 20 hours ago |
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WILDLABS members are working in conservation tech on every continent. No matter what you’re working on - or where - you’ll find someone to connect with in our community. To message people directly, create a profile today!
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PhD student at the University of Zürich (CH) in PopEcol group, working with camera traps and mammals
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Conservation biologist. Iberian wolf monitoring field technician. Master`s on bear`s movement ecology.
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PhD student using passive acoustic monitoring and machine learning to study wildlife, with a focus on wetland bird communities.
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Strategic Director The Zambezi Society, Co- Funder Zambezi Elephant Fund,
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retired Director of the Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig in Bonn, Germany, biologist, focus on systematics and taxonomy of Crustacea Isopoda, arthropod phylogeny, theory of systematic biology, methods for biodiversity monitoring
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I am a behavioural ecologist and eco-physiologist interested in individual differences in marine mammals and other predators
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Barbara Francik
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I am an early career researcher, particularly interested in animal behaviour and ecology. My previous experience is mostly in bioacoustics, and much of my work has focused on seabirds.
Shoyab khan
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Biologist
Joana Marcelino
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Computational ecologist passionate about leveraging big data, geographic information systems, and advanced computational methods to better understand the complexity of ecological systems.
DP Srivastava
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I grew up in the concrete jungle of Capital City, Delhi. The love for wildlife provoked me to pursue Masters in Environmental Studies from the University of Delhi, and develop an understanding as a naturalist and of human ecology. I started exploring nature’s hidden beauties.
Mr Christian N Berger
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PEBL is a community interest company creating affordable underwater monitoring tools
Marcelo J Martins
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Founder of AetherLink, an early-stage wildlife roadkill-prevention project on the Gold Coast, Australia. Background in audio engineering, sound therapy, and 12+ years volunteering in wildlife rescue and bush regeneration. Working on multi-modal roadside detection (radar, thermal,
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WILDLABS Project Manager
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Your experiences and knowledge are important to the future of conservation tech - so share your story! Post a new article, event or opportunity and help create a living hub for conservation technology that everyone can use.
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Join us for our 15th learning session on Wednesday, July 15 at 6 pm CEST | 5 pm BST | 12 pm EDT | 9 am PDT | 9:30 pm IST (Co-creation with the More-than-Human sandbox) Register on EventBrite (free, 1 hr): https://www....
1 July 2026
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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-...
1 July 2026
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1 July 2026
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Charting the Future of Ocean Passive Acoustics: From observations to science and management
1 July 2026
Vanesa Reyes
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Climate Change AI Virtual Summer School 2026
1 July 2026
Vanesa Reyes
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Applied Bioacoustics for Conservation in Theory and Practice
1 July 2026
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BAM (Biodiversity Around Me) widget
30 June 2026
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July Vibe Coding Party
29 June 2026
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Community Spaces
Henry Rees
Programme Development Manager
Join a group and find your community
Connecting with people who understand the technology, species, and habitats you’re working with is so important to building your conservation tech network. Whether you’re looking for expert advice or just want to chat about your experiences, our Groups will help you find your corner of the WILDLABS community.
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- Getting behavioral data out of datasets that weren't built for it
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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- Wild Moves and Wild Album: New GBIF Data Portals for Animal Tracking and Camera Trap Data
New data portals are making it easier to discover and explore wildlife tracking and camera trap datasets from around the world.
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- Anyone using Microsoft Sparrow?
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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- 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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Improving the computer vision detection model for the Mothbox, an automatic insect monitoring tool from Dinalab
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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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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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Trail Cameras & Custom Camera Traps: Technology, Ethics & Strategies for Success
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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.
🌍 Conservation technology is transforming how we protect wildlife, but are we thinking carefully enough about the risks? Drones, camera traps, GPS trackers, acoustic sensors, AI, and remote sensing have become essential tools for conservation practitioners around the world. They help us monitor species, detect threats, and respond faster than ever before. But these same technologies can also introduce unintended risks, and in some cases, can be exploited by those seeking to harm the very wildlife we're trying to protect. 🦏 Input now and/or join the discussions/research.
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Talia Speaker
Executive Manager
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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.
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.
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