Welcome to the WILDLABS Community

WILDLABS is home to the global conservation technology community of 8,600 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

Welcome to our community!

If this is your first time in our community, a very warm welcome, we're so glad to have you here! We want to make sure the knowledge shared in our community is accessible as possible, so you'll be able to explore everything in our community without creating an account. Once you're ready to join the conversations and publish articles, events and other news, you'll need to register and join the community.

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Our Top Picks

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...

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After a long application review and finalisation process, we are thrilled to finally announce the winners of the WILDLABS Awards 2024! 

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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

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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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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

Conversations & Questions

Description Activity Replies Groups Updated
The Cambridge Conservation Forum's Conservation GIS group had returned! If you're based in or around Cambridge, and are...
Remote Sensing & GIS 7 years 1 month ago
Join us this May for another evening of humanitarian mapping (and pizza!). No previous experience required. On Thursday 18th May from...
Remote Sensing & GIS 7 years ago
It's that time again; on Thursday 13th we'll be heading to The Eagle on Benet Street from 18:00 to talk maps. This...
Remote Sensing & GIS 7 years ago
Post-doctoral Researcher or PhD student with a background in data/computer science to work with me on issues around illegal...
Wildlife Crime 6 years 11 months ago
For those interested: in the acoustics channel I have posted news on our sound event recognition sensor, using conv-net: https://...
AI for Conservation 6 years 11 months ago
For those interested: in the acoustics channel I have posted news on our sound event recognition sensor, using conv-net: https://...
Sensors 6 years 11 months ago
For those interested: in the acoustics channel I have posted news on our sound event recognition sensor, using conv-net: https://...
Human-Wildlife Conflict 6 years 11 months ago
Can Technology Save the Earth? How can we connect science, data, and technology to advance global conservation...
Community Base 6 years 11 months ago
The Wildlife Consumer Behaviour Change Community of Practice has a new newsletter that is packed with the latest behaviour change...
Wildlife Crime 6 years 10 months ago
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, together with The Prince of Wales’s International Sustainability Unit, have announced the launch of...
Marine Conservation 6 years 10 months ago
Field Instruments: Build it yourself From custom wildlife collars to underwater recorders, a...
Open Source Solutions 6 years 10 months ago
Hi everyone,  WCS and the SMART Partnership are holding a hackathon next week with the aim of improving SMART (Spatial Monitoring...
Protected Area Management Tools 7 years 4 months ago

Connect & Collaborate

UX Researcher @WhatsApp/Facebook, working with WWF/TRAFFIC on Coalition on End Wildlife Trafficking Online. Wildlife x Design enthusiast

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Co-founder of EONEF, I maximise conservation teams's work using tethered helium balloons

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Postdoc using genomics and ancient DNA to help conserve a critically endangered cockatoo species

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coder, conservation newbie

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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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Afrotropical ecologist specializing in birds of the Congo Basin and Afromontane regions

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Latest members

Cara Penton

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

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

Vaileth Jairosy Sanga

  •  |  Sanga

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.

Theodora  Venance Shirima

Theodora Venance Shirima

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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.

MURIITHI GIDEON WANJAU

MURIITHI GIDEON WANJAU

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I am a digital advocate in environmental conservation and community development.

Francois Prinsloo

Francois Prinsloo

I'm SANParks Honorary Ranger and Snare Removal Co-ordinator for the North of Kruger National Park

Ideas & Updates

Apply to the inaugural GOSH Ambassador Program by May 15! 

18 April 2024

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

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

Funding

EDGE Fellowship 2025-2027

16 April 2024

carlybatist

Article

InConversation: Season 1*New Episode*

16 April 2024

EstherGithinji

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Careers

Research Assistant, Lion Landscapes in Nanyuki

11 April 2024

EstherGithinji

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Get involved

WILDLABS Meetups
Join us in person!

You’re invited to connect with fellow WILDLABS community members in one of our upcoming in person meetups! Drop by one of our happy hour events to meet other community members, hear what peers are working on, and chat with the WILDLABS team. 

Find these events and more in our conservation technology calendar! 

Feb
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2:00 pm ~ 5:00 pm America/Denver

Talia Speaker

Join us on February 20th in Boulder, Colorado for a WILDLABS meetup convening local groups working in conservation technology to connect, exchange ideas, and brainstorm future in-...
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Mar
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5:00 pm ~ 8:00 pm America/New_York

Alex Rood

*Join WILDLABS on March 4th in NYC for a conservation tech networking event alongside WWF, USFWS, IFAW, Microsoft, and more! *Sold Out*
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5:00 pm ~ 8:00 pm America/New_York

Alex Rood

Join WILDLABS on March 7th in Washington, DC for a casual in-person meetup.
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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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WILDLABS does everything a great community should do: it encourages the learning and sharing of cutting-edge knowledge; it fosters collaboration and cooperation between all members, and it facilitates all this through a variety of accessible, engaging, and practical programs. Join us today to be part of the experience!

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