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Article / Early Career | East Africa Community + 1
Are you an emerging Tanzanian conservationist looking to leverage new technologies in your conservation practice and become part of an empowering network of female conservation leaders? Apply now for our Women in...
25 March 2024
Article / Community Base | Emerging Tech
Announcing the WILDLABS Awards 2024 awardees!
Adrien Pajot
After a long application review and finalisation process, we are thrilled to finally announce the winners of the WILDLABS Awards 2024!
26 March 2024
Article / Community Base
Introducing Badges: A new WILDLABS feature!
Jake Burton
We’re unveiling badges, a new feature that allows you to showcase how you’re involved in WILDLABS. Keep track of engagement, show off your collection, and maybe even engage in some friendly competition.
12 March 2024
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...
29 October 2015
Event / Community Base
The Variety Hour: April 2024
Stephanie O'Donnell
Join us this month to hear about balancing classical biodiversity monitoring with emerging bioacoustics and AI, a new report about bridging biodiversity and business, using passive acoustic monitoring to evaluate...
18 April 2024
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Akiba
Community Member
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| We use the DJI M30T for this kind of work.For finding heat signals of animals under foliage check out this bit of Austrian UAV developement:You can use their open software on the... |
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Camera Traps, Drones | 1 hour 57 minutes ago | |
| Hello Everyone,I have a question on how to use landcover data. I've data collected for five years and I want to know at what landcover type... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 3 hours 17 minutes ago | |
| Hello Ms Esther👋Thank you for taking your time to reply to me with such helpful response.I'm interested in conservation technology such as camera traps, GIS and Remote sensing,... |
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Early Career, East Africa Community, Community Base | 3 hours 52 minutes ago | |
| In an earlier post in this discussion, I wondered how the funders are responding. Today, I stumbled on the following Request for Expressions of Interest for short term consultancy... |
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AI for Conservation, Emerging Tech | 18 hours 18 minutes ago | |
| I am working on that too haha. So in my design you load the glue gun with two part Loctite, it has two separate metal rings. Glue and hardener in each ring. Then each ring has a... |
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Biologging | 1 day 1 hour ago | |
| Thanks, and that's a match! All these pictures are from a lab experiment and formated with AmphIdent. We took weekly belly pictures of several larvae. The aim of this google... |
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Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Software and Mobile Apps | 1 day 5 hours ago | |
| Hey Sol, No problem at all. Depending on your configuration, the Audiomoth software would have to work on a PCB with an ESP32 chip which is the unit on the audiomoth/... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech, Sustainable Fishing Challenges | 1 day 21 hours ago | |
| Hi, this is pretty interesting to me. I plan to fly a drone over wild areas and look for invasive species incursions. So feral hogs are especially bad, but in the Everglades there... |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps | 1 day 23 hours ago | |
| That was one of the things I was wondering about, the height that it can resolve animals at. At some resolution it must be able to tell different animals apart. My... |
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AI for Conservation | 1 day 23 hours ago | |
| Hi Soumya , Interested to know if you are pursuing distance education in ML while at your current job. I would love to hear more about your journey on course specifics... |
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Community Base, Early Career | 2 days 22 hours ago | |
| Totally agree.Inititally sceptical until I saw Helena and Graeme were involved.MJ |
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Acoustics, Citizen Science, Community Base, Human-Wildlife Conflict | 3 days 13 hours ago | |
| Hello @CourtneyShuert If I am not mistaken, Wildlife Computers was developing or has developed a remote release package for such an application as has a much smaller company... |
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Biologging, Marine Conservation | 3 days 21 hours ago |
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I am a Senior Research Associate at the Wildlife Institute of India and pursuing my Ph.D. on movement ecology of Indian Wolves in the state of Maharashtra, India.
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Cara Penton
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Based in Darwin and West Arnhem Land I work as an ecologist specialising in cross-cultural community based environmental research. My research interests are integrating AI into community-based models with local governance.
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DrivenData
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Vaileth Sanga Coexistence and Education Coordinator Vaileth holds a Bachelor degree in Wildlife Management from the Sokoine University of Agriculture. She is a true champion for our human-elephant coexistence and education projects.
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Theodora Venance is a wildlife management graduate from Sokoine University of Agriculture with a passion for entomology and conservation. With experience at the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute, she specialized in butterfly identification and data analysis.
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Ecologist Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Alex Rood
The incumbent will develop models and metrics that can be used to shape conservation policy using multiple data sources including camera traps, movement data and citizen science concerning the diversity and...
23 April 2024
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Navigating AI and good governance for INGOs
Stephanie O'Donnell
While many INGOs are already using AI tools across various operational tasks, including content creation, grant management, data collection, they also face significant risks such as bias, cyber threats, and concerns...
23 April 2024
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The Smithsonian National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute is seeking a Program Manager to help coordinate multiple organizations in an effort to integrate movement data & camera trap data with global...
22 April 2024
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Postdoc: Biologging & Camera Trap Data Integration
22 April 2024
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22 April 2024
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You’re invited to the WILDLABS Variety Hour, a monthly event that connects you to conservation tech's most exciting projects, research, and ideas. We can't wait to bring you a whole new season of speakers and discussions!
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A set of highly discriminating STR DNA markers developed in a collaboration between the SASA wildlife forensics lab and University of Leicester researchers is being used to detect laundering of wild peregrine falcons into the captive-bred market for onward sale as racing birds in the Middle East.
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In a recent publication we tested Underwater Passive Acoustic Monitoring (UPAM) as a feasible non-invasive technique to study the calling behavior of therathened aquatic Andean frogs under natural conditions in the extreme environments of PUNA in the central Andes of Argentina
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EarthRanger: All you need to know!
Netty Cheruto
3 August 2022
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