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The WILDLABS Variety Hour is your monthly connection to the exciting projects, research, and ideas that are happening in conservation tech right now. This month, learn about challenges tracking sharks & rays, hear...
10 August 2022
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Discussion / Biologging | East Africa Community
Hey Everyone,Are you ready for our next Live Q&A Session? If you're looking for an effective animal monitoring solution, Join us here on 23rd August 2022, 9am EAT...
17 August 2022
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Article / Acoustic Monitoring | AI for Conservation + 2
Bird Sounds Global (BSG) launched a web portal for annotating bird sounds. Annotating means identifying the species vocalising in the recording. The aim is to produce training and testing material for automated bird...
17 August 2022
Discussion / Community Base
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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Careers / eDNA & Genomics | Emerging Tech + 1
Are you interested in joining a team dedicated to changing how conservation is conducted around the world by developing new genetic technologies for conservation, and being part of the new wave of scientists paving a...
15 August 2022
Conversations & Questions
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We were the world first commercial direct to satellite ear tag. There are collar base solutions that work direct to satellite. |
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Biologging | 36 minutes 52 seconds ago | |
Hey Everyone,Are you ready for our next Live Q&A Session? If you're looking for an effective animal monitoring solution, Join us... |
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Biologging, East Africa Community | 1 day 19 hours ago | |
Hi Wildlabs,I am Sebastian the project manager for FishID. We are currently in the last stretch of DevOps for the FishID platform. I am... |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools , Marine Conservation | 3 days 2 hours ago | |
Adding some links that @CarlosAbrahams sent on Twitter last week, just to avoid having to go back to twitter to find them (Thanks Carlos!!!!)UK Bat/Wind Report http://randd.defra.... |
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Climate Change | 3 days 11 hours ago | |
@Ann_Wambui , Qgis and ArcGis Desktop are stand alone apps that are useful in coming up with geojson files and/or shapefiles that store the location, shape, and attributes of... |
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Data management and processing tools , East Africa Community, Protected Area Management Tools | 3 days 19 hours ago | |
A thread for people to upload the most interesting or unusual sightings recorded by their traps. To get the ball rolling here's a coy... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps | 6 days 11 hours ago | |
Hi everyone!Another update to the WILDLABS Platform this week after the events fixes earlier on (see above). This one is mostly to get some new functionality around careers... |
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Community Base | 6 days 14 hours ago | |
Good morning from Italy! My name is Valentina Iesari, a young biologist of the center of Italy. Currently, I'm collaborating with a NGOs (BirdLife Italia) as a provincial... |
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Community Base | 6 days 17 hours ago | |
Hey maya, If you're free - come along to our Variety Hour call next week and ask folks there too. We're keeping the last 10 mins open for people to jump up and put out calls... |
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Acoustic Monitoring | 1 week 1 day ago | |
hi I am David Roy, working at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. I am an ecologist and most of my career has been working on biodiversity monitoring schemes,... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 1 week 2 days ago | |
Easy RIDER: Real-time IDentification for Ecological Research and MonitoringEasy RIDER is a networking project funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council for two years (... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 1 week 2 days ago | |
Hi Kim,Thanks for the response. I think they can hear our cameras clicking when they are set off and they come to see what is happening so I would totally agree with the... |
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Camera Traps | 1 week 2 days ago |
Connect & Collaborate
Ornithologist, Birdwatcher, Wildlife photographer, Graduated in Environmental Studies,Ecotour guide
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Smart Parks
Founder of Smart Parks - www.smartparks.org / Founder of OpenCollar - https://opencollar.io
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Samantha is a founding member and runs the Kelp Forest Foundation which looks to fill the gaps in the science around kelp cultivation.
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PhD Student working on acoustics and hunting in tropical forests
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The Nature Conservancy
Land Science Specialist
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Post-doc at Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé (CNRS), France
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Latest members

Len Thomas
- @lenthomas
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Ecological statistician developing methods for wildlife population assessment.

Danilo Sandro Barbosa
- @Danilosbar
- Him/His
Biologist, MSc in Environmental Engineering, professor at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Mato Grosso do Sul, Pantanal Wetlands/Brazil. Interest in ecotoxicology, Ecological Risk Assessment, Environmental Technologies.

Erik Young
- @erikyoung
Board of Directors, Skagit Fisheries Enhancement Group. Interests include AI applications supporting salmonid species recovery
Irsan Sadri
- @irsansadri
- Irsan Sadri
Electrical Engineering Student
Kamran Yaghmaei
- @kamran
Hello, I am Kamran Yaghmai, I have 20 internationally accepted scientific papers on how the structure of life and announcing the formation of viral imperialism and I have explained the nature of periodic viral attacks and dangers of announcing the location of the planet Earth.

Ruthmery Pillco Huarcaya
- @Ruthmery
Peruvian biologist working on Andean bear conservation in the Peruvian Andes
Ideas & Updates
Training in survey design and the analysis of camera trap data from species that cannot be individually identified to produce estimates of population density and abundance.
18 August 2022
Bird Sounds Global (BSG) launched a web portal for annotating bird sounds. Annotating means identifying the species vocalising in the recording. The aim is to produce training and testing material for automated bird...
17 August 2022
Are you interested in joining a team dedicated to changing how conservation is conducted around the world by developing new genetic technologies for conservation, and being part of the new wave of scientists paving a...
15 August 2022
Careers
Community Spaces
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- Underwater Fish Datasets from the Mediterranean
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- Do you want automated identification models made from your bird bioacoustics data?
Bird Sounds Global (BSG) launched a web portal for annotating bird sounds. Annotating means identifying the species vocalising in the recording. The aim is to produce training and testing material for automated bird sound identification.
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- A Triphibian Surveillance Vehicle
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- The Foes and Floes of Labelling Aerial Pictures Manually
This WhaleSeeker article discusses how reliable distribution data depends on accurate labelling from survey images, and how AI can improve this process.
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- Underwater Fish Datasets from the Mediterranean
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- New app aims to take a bite out of illegal shark fin trade
Powered by artificial intelligence, a new app called Fin Finder enables customs inspectors to take a photo of a shark or ray fin and identify it within seconds. Developed by Conservation International in partnership with Singapore’s National Parks Board, and supported by Microsoft and other partners, this app could help governments confiscate illegal animal parts that are hidden in plain sight.
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- Live Q&A Discussion on Ceres Tag: An animal monitoring Solution!
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- New Conservation Tech Directory update
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- New wildlife forensics lab - Singapore
Mongabay article on the recently launched Centre for Wildlife Forensics in Singapore, noting their successes so far in catching wildlife traffickers and uncovering trafficking routes
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- New article (Reuters): Orca stuck in river to be lured to sea using drone with loudspeakers
"A drone emitting orca sounds will be used in attempt to guide the animal, whose health is fast deteriorating"
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Tracking Progress
Virtual Meetups Season 4
This season, 517 unique participants from at least 71 countries joined our Virtual Meetups to hear from leading engineers, conservationists, and academics to explore the future of technology in movement ecology and ask where exactly investment is needed to catapult this field forward.
Click through below to catch up on the latest recordings, or access all four events on the Tracking Progress project page. We're so grateful for your interest and engagement in kicking off this exciting research project, and look forward to keeping you updated as the work progresses!
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