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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
Event / AI for Conservation | Biologging + 3
Catch up with The Variety Hour: March 2024
Stephanie O'Donnell
Variety Hour is back! This month we're talking about making AI more accessible with Pytorch, new developments from WildMe and TagRanger, and working with geospatial data with Fauna & Flora. See you there!
21 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
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Akiba
Community Member
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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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| More cool things surrounding the Mothbox project keep happening! Here’s a recap of cool developments over the past month!New Teammate! Bri... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 13 seconds ago | |
| Steph, yes, I gathered as much myself, but I still wanted to put it on the agenda. It links to the bigger problem in nature conservation, and especially funding : all projects are... |
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Community Base | 9 hours 4 minutes ago | |
| Thank you!Here is the parts list. We include links where useful, but don't update them unless there is a major change.For the most part it is the accumulation of many low-cost... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, AI for Conservation, Emerging Tech, Open Source Solutions | 10 hours 13 minutes ago | |
| Got it. We should definitely be able to handle those images. That said, if you're just looking for counts, then I'd recommend running Megadetector which is an object detection... |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps | 11 hours 5 minutes ago | |
| Hi folks!@Chelsea_Smith from Fauna & Flora joined last month's variety hour to share more about Fauna & Flora's work with... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS, Data management and processing tools, Protected Area Management Tools | 17 hours 26 minutes ago | |
| Hi everyone, @craig joined last month's Variety Hour to chat about Tagranger, which you can read more about here. A TagRanger®... |
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Biologging, Connectivity, Sensors | 17 hours 35 minutes ago | |
| Hi everyone!@LashaO and @holmbergius from the Wild Me team at ConservationX Labs gave a superb talk at last month's Variety Hour,... |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps | 17 hours 47 minutes ago | |
| Hi everyone! @zhongqimiao was kind enough to join Variety Hour last month to talk more about Pytorch-Wildlife, so the recording might be of interest to folks in this thread. Catch... |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Open Source Solutions | 17 hours 50 minutes ago | |
| Thanks Carly! I will keep anyone interested in this project posted on this platform. Cheers |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation | 18 hours 34 minutes ago | |
| Can't beat Dan's list! I would just add that if you're interested in broader protected area management, platforms like EarthRanger and SMART are amazing, and can integrate... |
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Data management and processing tools, Camera Traps, Conservation Tech Training and Education | 1 day 3 hours ago | |
| Hello everyone!I'm thrilled to join this dynamic community of innovators and explorers. My name is Latifa, and I bring passion for adventure, a love for nature and a deep... |
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Community Base | 1 day 14 hours ago | |
| 'Most importantly, we have to make it play a MIDI version of the DoctorWho theme song when you arm the device. That has to be the #1 feature if you ask me!' Seconded! |
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Acoustics, Biologging, Emerging Tech, Open Source Solutions, Sensors | 1 day 18 hours ago |
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Co-founder of EONEF, I maximise conservation teams's work using tethered helium balloons
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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.
Jay Qi
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DrivenData
Lead Data Scientist and contributor to zamba, a tool for automatic species classification from camera traps
Vaileth Jairosy Sanga
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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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I am a digital advocate in environmental conservation and community development.
Francois Prinsloo
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I'm SANParks Honorary Ranger and Snare Removal Co-ordinator for the North of Kruger National Park
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Become a WILDLABS group manager!
Alex Rood
Are you interested in getting more involved in the WILDLABS community? Do you want an opportunity to build your network and get more connected to other conservation tech folks in your field? Apply to be a group manager!
17 April 2024
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From integrated data platforms in wildlife reserves to emerging efforts to leverage AI to support rapid responses in conflict-prone areas, this event will showcase how data-driven approaches have reduced incidents and...
17 April 2024
Safely tagging owls can be a daunting prospect and presents many challenges. This webinar provides a unique opportunity to hear from three field experts, who will present their respective techniques, as well as useful...
16 April 2024
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EDGE Fellowship 2025-2027
16 April 2024
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InConversation: Season 1*New Episode*
16 April 2024
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InConversation: Starting a Conservation Technology Career with Vainess Laizer
16 April 2024
Esther Githinji
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15 April 2024
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11 April 2024
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Esther Githinji
East Africa Coordinator
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SEE Shell is an innovative phone app that uses machine learning to identify products made from the shell of the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle.
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- The Variety Hour: 2024 Lineup
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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Listen in on our interview with human-predator conflict expert, Gabi Fleury and gain a deeper understanding of the importance of holistic, ethical and community-led approaches to developing tech solutions for conservation.
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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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