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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
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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
Article / Community Base | East Africa Community
WILDLABS journeyed through the most significant climate event in Africa this year and delivered a Women in Conservation Technology presentation. Esther Githinji, our East Africa Hub Facilitator discovered that although...
27 October 2023
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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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| It's certainly possible that your camera(s) just aren't embedded structured metadata for this information. But I wouldn't give up too quickly on looking for it, because... |
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Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps | 39 seconds 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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| Zamba Cloud can handle video! |
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Camera Traps | 1 day ago | |
| While pretty expensive, everyone I know has had good experiences with the HOBO weather stations and can be customizable if needed. Would still be my rec if you need something ASAP... |
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Sensors | 1 day 1 hour ago | |
| Love the idea for in-house gear/supplies! It can be SOO difficult to travel with batteries, electronics parts with airline regs, country policies, etc. and shipping recorders/... |
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Community Base, Emerging Tech, Marine Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools, Sensors | 1 day ago | |
| Literally HOW did I miss that! Thanks for flagging! |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps | 1 day 11 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 | 1 day 20 hours ago | |
| Hi Rob,thank you for the recommendations. I will checkout both options and choose the one which will be well suited for my zone of studies.Warm Regards, Benedicta |
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| Thanks for the information @Sarita , very helpful indeed!! Cheers, Rob |
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Biologging | 5 days 10 hours ago | |
| Well I’m just using the opensoundscape library whose purpose was likely exactly that.I would expect that there should be pointers to that sort of pipeline from audiomoth itself.... |
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Acoustics | 5 days 19 hours ago | |
| Hello Rob, I am hoping to have a follow-up soon on this, thanks for the boost!Chat soonNaomi |
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Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 6 days 1 hour ago | |
| Thank-you for sharing this study, I read it with interest! I was wondering, in doing this study did you also get a feel for how these methods compare in terms of time and costs... |
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Acoustics | 1 week ago |
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- Mozilla Foundation, funding for nature conservation
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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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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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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Dedi Yang and co athors publiched a paper on a Raspberry Pi-based open-source, low-power camera system
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EarthRanger: All you need to know!
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