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Welcome to Day 4 of our eighth annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge!
We're in the final stretch of our annual celebration of conservation tech, and yet the photos and videos shared by our community are as exciting and insightful as ever, offering a window into how you're all working with tools like AI, camera traps, analytic software, drones, bioacoustics recorders, GPS collars, and much more.
We've also just announced the Community Choice Awards, an opportunity for all of you to choose photos and videos that best capture the innovative spirit of our global conservation tech community. Stay tuned to WILDLABS' social media channels tomorrow for more details on how you can get involved, and share your posts with the hashtag #Tech4Wildlife before 8 PM BST to be eligible for our Top Honorees lists!
Explore today's entries below, and join our #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge on Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn by using the hashtag #Tech4Wildlife now through tomorrow, July 28th!
Here's your round-up of today's #Tech4Wildlife Twitter highlights:
Nothing says #Tech4Wildlife louder than this bull elephant carrying a tracking collar. Using GPS real-time tracking, Save the Elephants monitors elephants to understand their behaviour and protect them better.
— Save the Elephants (@ste_kenya) July 27, 2023
Learn more here: https://t.co/pZlrEmJMlo
📷 @ninaconstable pic.twitter.com/jF0lpc1liO
Guess the 3 species Filson’s nose detected!👇🏽
— Rogue Detection Teams (@roguedetection) July 27, 2023
He’s a CDDT, or a member of a “conservation detection dog team.” CDDTs (professional wildlife #SnifferDogs + #K9Handler / Field Scientists), collect data (💩) on wildlife, non-invasively.
Hint: 🐱🦁🐻#Tech4Wildlife #PoopScience pic.twitter.com/ipkPvd6MoY
Shark Scientist Kat Mason was flying the drone over a blacktip pupping ground, when she noticed something odd about one individual. She quickly realised that the ‘extra mass’ was in fact a fishing line attached to the shark by a hook. #Tech4wildlife https://t.co/Xbyg23nKhp #ARRI pic.twitter.com/6ZVoeEOWMu
— Sol Milne, PhD (@solomilne) July 27, 2023
This year the FieldKit team returned to Cameroon's Dja Faunal Reserve to deploy sensors and a LoRa network for scientists who come from around the world to study. #Tech4Wildlife pic.twitter.com/R5l3ZXeuvN
— FieldKit.org (@FieldKitOrg) July 27, 2023
Our submissions for this year's #Tech4Wildlife photo challenge from Cameroon show that being 40-50m up a tree can definitely have an impact on your focus! We were lucky to work with expert arborists from @TreeMonkees to maximize efficiency and safety. pic.twitter.com/ZBrjoZqVPi
— FieldKit.org (@FieldKitOrg) July 27, 2023
We'll throw our hat in the ring for the #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge. We use #AI to match individual animals of many species in large catalogs, and we work to visualize the how the AI network matches them, which can be very different than a human. pic.twitter.com/dMP7eu9lLZ
— Wild Me (@WildMeORG) July 27, 2023
2023 @WILDLABSNET #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge:#Arctic wildlife reactions when we deployed camera traps to monitor biodiversity at Alert, the northernmost settlement in the world... They came, they saw and they conquered.
— Sandra Lai @sandralai.bsky.social (@Arctic_paws) July 27, 2023
© Alert Wildlife Research Laboratory pic.twitter.com/SxHieRZykf
Day 4. Margay Project using a variety of #Tech4Wildlife to install an observation chair. @CocoboloNature pic.twitter.com/uvRMNEwqRH
— lucy hughes (@lucy_lucycawte) July 27, 2023
#Tech4Wildlife photo challenge, D4! 📍🇧🇷
— Icas - Wild Animal Conservation Institute (@IcasWild) July 27, 2023
Thanks to telemetry and camera traps, our team could document baby giant armadillos for the first time!
Giant armadillos are the biggest and rarest of all armadillos. They are threatened with extinction.
1/3🧶@WILDLABSNET
📹@ReconyxInc pic.twitter.com/gLxYScse3e
The rarity of this giant can be easily explained, for a female become mature around 7-9 years of age, giving birth to only 1 pup (after 5 months of gestation), between a long interval of 2 to 3 years.
— Icas - Wild Animal Conservation Institute (@IcasWild) July 27, 2023
With a growth rate that low, this species could disappear in a glimpse 2/3 pic.twitter.com/Tsl6x6tdoF
Vulture ( in our case- African white-backed vulture) nest surveys in the western corridor of the Serengeti ecosystem would have been a nightmare without technology. pic.twitter.com/xLnim8GKI8
— nditoUwimana (@UwimanaVainess) July 27, 2023
I hear it's #Tech4Wildlife week! Can I get a roll call for folks using #drones #UAV for wildlife work? Particularly if it's for birds!
— Janet Ng, Ph.D (@janetngbio) July 27, 2023
It's a new tool for me and there's lots to consider. I plan on using it for shorebird & waterbird work. pic.twitter.com/30qYU1cApH
For #Tech4Wildlife week, we highlight our remote camera work and that of partners. These tools help us understand wildlife and the spaces people share with them. They are a safe and non-intrusive way to monitor and track animal movements.
— Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (@Y2Y_Initiative) July 27, 2023
📷 https://t.co/yaq4JTH1k7 pic.twitter.com/N5SXTUmOYA
Camera Trap is among technological tool that we use in wildlife monitoring & researches. Inspiring future ecologists and wildlife researchers especially ladies on the use of technology is telling them working in wildlife conservation field is beyond holding guns #Tech4Wildlife pic.twitter.com/DX7qPXTv2S
— Kigosi Exavery (@kigosi87) July 27, 2023
Did you know that of the 363 #species of #hummingbirds that exist in the world, around 44 occur in the Atlantic Forest biome, one of the most biodiverse and threatened in the world?! 😮
— Rainforest Connection (@RainforestCx) July 28, 2023
Day #4 of @WILDLABSNET 's #Tech4Wildlife photo challenge! Have a look at these beauties… pic.twitter.com/fumxe2HrGS
Here are our latest Instagram entries:
19 likes, 0 comments - conservationph on July 27, 2023: "It's a c-trap!! 📸 A Palawan Peacock Pheasant (𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘺𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯 𝘯𝘢𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴), locally known as 𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘬𝘢𝘯 🦚, was captured by one of our camera traps in the Mount Mantalingahan Protected Landscape during the team's High Conservation Value Area Assessment. 💡 Did you know that 𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘬𝘢𝘯 is the inspiration behind Puerto Princesa's logo? As the logo of the city spreads its feathers, which represent its 66 barangays, it symbolizes the beauty and strength of Puerto Princesa. The 𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘬𝘢𝘯 also serves as a symbol of conservation efforts of the city not only for the species, but for all other fauna that are threatened with extinction. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has classified the 𝘛𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘬𝘢𝘯 as 'vulnerable' and suspects that the species is undergoing rapid decline due to habitat degradation, hunting, and capture for trade. #tech4wildlife".
28 likes, 0 comments - conservationph on July 27, 2023: "Oohhh, it's a pangolin!! 😲😱 Another critter caught on our camera traps in the Mount Mantalingahan Protected Landscape is the 'Balintong' or Philippine Pangolin. 💡 Did you know that Palawan pangolins play an important role within their ecosystems? With their ability to continually dig and root around, they provide the island with all-natural pest control. It's estimated that a single pangolin eats up to 70 million insects per year, with termites and ants as the main course. Sadly, Palawan pangolins are among the most trafficked animals on Earth. Their protective scales are highly sought after in the traditional Chinese medicine trade despite not having any known medicinal value. Between 1980 and 2018, their population have declined by up to 95%. Deforestation caused by timber poaching and kaingin also contributed to the decline in the habitat of the Palawan pangolin. According to the IUCN, their conservation status is listed as Critically Endangered. Through the use of camera traps, we are able to identify areas where pangolins are still present and therefore work on initiatives to protect and conserve these areas. #Tech4Wildlife Data source from OneEarth.org".
15 likes, 0 comments - cocobolonature on July 27, 2023: "We also adapted the hunters chair as a #Tech4Wildlife observation platform. Using arborist climbing tech we installed it at 10 to 15 meters providing a point to make nocturnal observations of both arboreal and terrestrial animals.".
25 likes, 3 comments - openacoustics on July 27, 2023: "Inside @arribada_i collars is @OpenAcoustics µMoth #Tech4Wildlife. These are some of the domestic dog volunteers helping train an acoustic model to better understand endangered African Wild Dogs. Thanks Arribada for the photos . Find out more here arribada.org/wilddogs/".
And here are the newest stories shared on LinkedIn:
#tech4wildlife #cameratraps | Nicole Corriveau
#Tech4Wildlife 🌍 Using #cameratraps with the South Rift Association of Landowners to support the co-existence of pastoralist communities and wildlife. I was able to learn from the Carnivore Team at Lake’enok Resource Centre to capture data that is quite useful in a landscape shared by community members and large carnivores. Also pictured: Julia Mast, Sarah van Driel, and Peter Meiponyi.
#tech4wildlife #citizenscience #ml | Ed Miller
The WILDLABS Community #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge is a great time to provide an update on the Bearcam Companion (https://app.bearid.org/), a web application leveraging #CitizenScience and my work with BearID Project to identify the bears on the explore.org bear cams. 🐻 Using credits I receive as an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Machine Learning Hero, I have built the application using AWS Amplify and #ML services like Amazon Rekognition and Amazon SageMaker. I have written a series of blogs about the development process on dev.to (https://lnkd.in/gbqeVFxE) and posted a demo video on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/g43bKwUt. The project was a runner-up in the AWS Amplify x Hashnode hackathon with the entry “Amplify-ing Bears” ⚡ 🐻 : https://lnkd.in/eDC7RQJ9. I presented a DevChat in the Developer Lounge at AWS re:Invent and was interviewed on the AWS Build On Live stream by the amazing Linda Haviv: https://lnkd.in/g4VPgTAc. I also presented the project in a short webinar, "AWS Heroes in 15: Bear Conservation with ML, Serverless and Citizen Science": https://lnkd.in/gFYM7Zzy Finally, I visited Katmai
#tech4wildlife | Center for Conservation Innovations
Caught on cam 🐽📸 A Palawan bearded pig or
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