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WILDLABS is home to the global conservation technology community of 7,700 people in 120 countries discussing 1,500 topics like biologging, camera traps, and machine learning. With engaging spaces to ask questions and collaborate together, share your own work, and discover new ideas and innovations, WILDLABS is your platform to connect with #Tech4Wildlife experts and projects from around the world. Explore

Stephanie O'Donnell

Stephanie O'Donnell

Community Manager

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OUT NOW: Our three-year trends report delivers the first global assessment tracking evolving perceptions and engagement in the tech for biodiversity and conservation space. Here are five things we found.

15 November 2023

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WILDLABS just released our three-year trends report sharing insights into how perceptions and engagement with technology for biodiversity and conservation are evolving. Take the 2023 survey and share it widely to help...

15 November 2023

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WILDLABS journeyed through the most significant climate event in Africa this year and delivered a Women in Conservation Technology presentation. Esther Githinji, our East Africa Hub Facilitator discovered that although...

27 October 2023

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Discussion / Community Base

Welcome to WILDLABS!

Stephanie O'Donnell

Hello and welcome to the WILDLABS community! With 6,000 members and counting, we want to get to know you a little better. In a couple of...

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Join us this month to hear about a new toolkit from Save the Elephants,  a tool to help you to host, visualize, and share massive orthomosaics and 3D models, Earth Species Projects' work to apply ML to biologging data,...

16 November 2023

Conversations & Questions

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Hi - You can always get the Moon phase data from the date, time and location combination.  Sometimes the exif data doesn't capture the information. But if its...
Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps 11 hours 53 minutes ago
I can help you with that, please send us some of the videos and will build a pipeline for it aakash at thinkevolvelabs dot com - Aakash Gupta 
AI for Conservation, Camera Traps 11 hours 59 minutes ago
Hey there - we can help you, please send us some of the videos and will build a pipeline for it aakash at thinkevolvelabs dot com - Aakash Gupta 
Camera Traps 12 hours ago
Hi Carly, thanks for this. I forgot to mention HOBO in my original post, but I had them down as the main available option. Think it might have to be them, I'll have to check for...
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Sensors 19 hours 14 minutes ago
Hi Parker! Interesting thought! You may want to check out this somewhat related discussion (perhaps for somewhat larger animals) :Cheers,Lars
Emerging Tech, Footprint Identification Technique (FIT), Sensors 22 hours 10 minutes ago
My suggestion would probably be a 3D printer and Solder Station with a stock of common components. With those two things you can solve most problems.
Community Base, Emerging Tech, Marine Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools, Sensors 1 day ago
Hi Joan,Sounds like a great project! I would recommend having a look at some of the nice review literature and guidelines that are out there, like - https://www.researchgate....
Acoustics 2 days 5 hours ago
The link above does not seem to work but this does: https://wildlabs.net/sites/default/files/community/files/drones_for_gis_-_best_practice_v2.0.pdf
Drones 3 days 2 hours ago
Hi Rob,thank you for the recommendations. I will checkout both options and choose the one which will be well suited for my zone of studies.Warm Regards, Benedicta
Biologging 6 days 11 hours ago
Thanks for the information @Sarita , very helpful indeed!! Cheers, Rob
Biologging 6 days 14 hours ago
Well I’m just using the opensoundscape library whose purpose was likely exactly that.I would expect that there should be pointers to that sort of pipeline from audiomoth itself....
Acoustics 1 week ago
Hello Rob, I am hoping to have a follow-up soon on this, thanks for the boost!Chat soonNaomi
Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) 1 week ago

Connect & Collaborate

ERAS (Ecosystem Restoration Artistry Systems)

Contractor and Researcher in the Cascadia bioregion, Eastern Europe and Catalonia.

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Studying Biodiversity, Wildlife, and Ecosystem Health @ UEdi. Professionally software engineer, program manager, developer educator

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Ornithologist working on passive acoustic monitoring equipment R&D in China

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Cross-discipline knowledge experiences in Environment, Politics, Social Media Communications & Social innovation

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Associate Prof. working on hidden biodiversity with eDNA in terrestrial and marine environments

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Latest members

Antony Terry

Antony Terry

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Conservation and internet of things enthusiasts

Sam Armstrong

Sam Armstrong

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International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Invasive species/law enforcement/project management/Asia/Australia

Assel Baimukanova

Assel Baimukanova

My name is Assel. I am researcher from Kazakhstan, and I am doing research of Caspian seal behavior.

Brittany Palmer

Brittany Palmer

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Entrepreneur and environmental attorney with a passion for wildlife conservation.

Lucy Dimitrova

Lucy Dimitrova

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Software developer and wildlife ecologist

chad c steele

chad c steele

R&D Engineer - Ai, fullstack, etc. passionate about animal conservation and Ai's part in it. Willing to volunteer my time and talent.

Ideas & Updates

Using baited remote underwater videos (BRUVs) to survey seagrass habitats along Kenya’s North Coast

30 November 2023

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 Hello, and welcome to this article. My name is  Cynthia Waithera Gichimu, and I am passionate about bird conservation. I will share with you some of my experiences and insights as a volunteer with two amazing...

30 November 2023

In the third article examining how people find biologging tech for their projects, I spoke with Samantha Andrzejaczek with the Hopkins Marine Station and Jessica Rudd and Lucy Hawkes of the University of Exeter about...

30 November 2023

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Funding

Kinship Conservation Fellows

28 November 2023

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Funding

Impact Shakers Accelerator

28 November 2023

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Careers

NSERC-CREATE Graduate Programs 

27 November 2023

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AI Earth: Using AI to tackle Climate Change

27 November 2023

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The Variety Hour
October

You’re invited to the WILDLABS Variety Hour, our monthly community event connecting you to the exciting projects, research, and ideas that are happening in conservation tech right now.

The WILDLABS Variety Hour isn’t a show, or a lecture, or a workshop. It's an engaging, fun, and interactive gathering, giving you a welcoming space to share your own projects and resources, ask and answer questions, have insightful conversations, meet collaborators, make friends, and get to know the conservation tech community in a new way. 

Want to catch the next show, or check out any you've missed? Check out the 2023 lineup here!

Oct
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4:00 pm ~ 5:00 pm Europe/London

Stephanie O'Donnell

Join us this month to hear about a low-cost design for an aquatic stereo  camera, a cost-effective design for nocturnal, infrared video recording, The Inventory, the dynamic, wiki...
Recording available
Sep
27

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4:00 pm ~ 5:00 pm UTC

Stephanie O'Donnell

Join us this month to hear about developing a Polar Bear satellite ear tag transmitter, how 3D tech is being used in forest ecology, Digital Earth Africa's work to make Earth...
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Aug
30

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4:00 pm ~ 5:00 pm UTC

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...
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Explore & Discover

WILDLABS Collections will help you dive deeper into the conservation tech topics that matter most to you, and find favorite resources from other community members. Start exploring our collections below!

5 May 2022

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Best Practice Guides

Stephanie O'Donnell

17 February 2023

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Collection

3 August 2022

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Rob Appleby

Rob Appleby

Community Member

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