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Funding / AI for Conservation | Community Base + 3
With $60,000, $30,000, and $10,000 grants available for 14 outstanding projects, the support of engineering and technology talent from Arm (the leading semiconductor design company), and access to the world’s biggest...
1 December 2023
Article / Community Base | Emerging Tech
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
Article / Community Base
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
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 | AI for Conservation + 4
Catch up with The Variety Hour: November 2023
Stephanie O'Donnell
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
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| Hi All,I understand Okala are doing a lot of work with ML and cameratraps, you could try and contact them. |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps | 22 seconds ago | |
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Software and Mobile Apps | 12 hours 5 minutes ago | |
| Star-Oddi in Iceland comes to mind, but I'm not 100% sure. |
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Biologging | 12 hours 7 minutes ago | |
| Hi Ninying,One benefit of the Pinpoint tags is that they are user-rechargeable, something pretty much unheard of for satellite tags for decades! If you can recover the tags... |
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Biologging | 12 hours 51 minutes ago | |
| One thing to keep in mind is that researchers often want or at least would like to get certain metadata on the tagged animals like sex, size, weight, apperent fitness etc. Without... |
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Emerging Tech, Footprint Identification Technique (FIT), Sensors | 13 hours 24 minutes ago | |
| I came across this which looks like it might work for you.Others have mentioned Davis. I used the Davis vantage pro2 in a previous life, and the cabled version was about... |
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Sensors | 16 hours 6 minutes ago | |
| Hi, our software Deepfaune works with videos. It is trained for the European fauna and try to put all birds in a 'bird' class but it includes a detection stage so at least it... |
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Camera Traps | 18 hours 19 minutes ago | |
| Do you need to do this for just one project? And do you use the same camera make/model for every deployment? Or at least a finite number of camera makes/models? ... |
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Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps | 18 hours 23 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. |
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Community Base, Emerging Tech, Marine Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools, Sensors | 2 days 13 hours 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.... |
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Acoustics | 3 days 17 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 |
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Drones | 4 days 14 hours ago | |
| Thanks for the information @Sarita , very helpful indeed!! Cheers, Rob |
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Biologging | 1 week 1 day ago |
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Tithonus Wildlife Research
Research ecologist; studying predator-prey dynamics of large mammals
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My name is Chris Nwachukwu, I'm an environmental educator. I hail from Imo State, Nigeria. I'm passionate about environmental education and committed to promoting ocean literacy
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Danish Zoological Society
I would sum my role to be a Technical- and Mathematical minded zoologist, and with an approach of combining that with e.g fieldwork
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Pomp!! Color! glamour and jubilation filled the first ever wildlife scientific conference dubbed “Use of Wildlife Science for enhanced Biodiversity Conservation and improved Livelihoods” that took place at the Lake...
1 December 2023
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Taking on the conservation Strides
Rose Abae
In a threatening world full of challenges to both humans and non-humans in existence, soliciting for diverse sustainable solutions to promote coexistence is vital and the answer lies in the advancement and adoption of...
1 December 2023
Article
Conservation of Kikuyu Escarpment Forest
Consolata Gathoni Gitau
With the support of Women in Conservation Technology (Kenya) and Arm, I had a chance to work with Kijabe Environment Volunteers in Kikuyu Escarpment Forest. This was an opportunity to channel my passion for the...
1 December 2023
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WILDLABS Awards 2024: Further Information
1 December 2023
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WILDLABS Awards 2024: Supporting accessible, affordable, and effective innovation for nature
1 December 2023
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PhD Position- Nottingham Trent University UK
1 December 2023
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Into the Underwater Savanna: BRUV Surveys In Seagrass Beds
30 November 2023
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Conservation of endangered birds in Kenya
30 November 2023
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East Africa Coordinator
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Many people know of the Mozilla Foundation because of the FireFox browser and other open source software they produce together with countless volunteers. Perhaps less well known, the Mozilla Foundation also runs a funding program, which I believe may be an potential source of support for certain nature conservation projects.
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- ICOTEQ launch TAGRANGER® system of products
TagRanger® is a state-of-the-art wildlife finding, monitoring and tracking solution for research, conservation and environmental professionals. With superior configurability for logging data, reporting location and engaging in GPS-beating ranging technology, TagRanger® will direct you to the exact Tag location with a precision that gets you within touching distance (‘Finding’).
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- ICOTEQ launch TAGRANGER® system of products
TagRanger® is a state-of-the-art wildlife finding, monitoring and tracking solution for research, conservation and environmental professionals. With superior configurability for logging data, reporting location and engaging in GPS-beating ranging technology, TagRanger® will direct you to the exact Tag location with a precision that gets you within touching distance (‘Finding’).
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Please join us in celebrating this year’s top #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge Honorees as chosen by our panel of leading conservation organization judges, and enjoy the story contained within these entries about how our global community is using conservation tech, and where their bold and innovative ideas will take our field next.
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- PiCAM: A Raspberry Pi-based open-source, low-power camera system for monitoring plant phenology in Arctic environments
Dedi Yang and co athors publiched a paper on a Raspberry Pi-based open-source, low-power camera system
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The Variety Hour
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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.
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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!
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EarthRanger: All you need to know!
Netty Cheruto
3 August 2022
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