Hey Jess, 

I've been working on building out a offline first data collection app thats set up to work for months of offline counting in the rain.

https://fieldlog.thefieldco.com

You build a form that can then be shared with field agents that runs on $50 hardware.
Would love to set up some time to chat and compare our implementations!

HMU! [email protected]

Hello everyone! 👋

I’m Priscilla Kagwa, a Regional Communications Officer with Wetlands International Eastern Africa, based in Kenya.

My work involves communicating conservation efforts across Eastern Africa through storytelling, photography, film and digital communications. I’m particularly interested in how we can use communications to make conservation science, technology and knowledge more accessible and meaningful to the communities and people who can use them.

My work has also given me the opportunity to engage with conservation technology in practice, including through Mangrove Guardians – Communities Harnessing Global Tools, a WILDLABS Boring Fund-supported project that explored the use of digital tools in community-based mangrove monitoring along the Kenyan coast.

I joined WILDLABS to learn more about the technologies being used in conservation, connect with people working across different disciplines, and explore how communications and storytelling can help bridge the gap between conservation technology and the communities and audiences it is intended to serve.

I’m looking forward to learning from the community, exchanging ideas and connecting with you all!

Hi Everyone!! I’m a mature student at Columbia Climate school in a 1 year MA programme with a particular interest in illegal wildlife trade, conservation dogs and community-led conservation in Africa. I’m currently interning with WWF’s Sniffer Dog Team on wildlife detection and technology work. Looking forward to getting more involved in Wildlabs! 

Collen Mulanga Nelwamondo, currently based in Pretoria, South Africa, is a Conservation Practitioner with over 8.5 years of expertise in transboundary biodiversity enforcement and counter-wildlife trafficking. Having concluded a distinguished 7-year tenure with TRAFFIC International on June 30th, 2026, I specialize in operationalizing international mandates (CITES, UNTOC, SDG 15) and professionalizing the enforcement chain through evidence-based innovation.

As the Africa Focal Point for the global Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online, I lead cross-sector partnerships between conservation NGOs and major tech platforms to disrupt digital illicit hubs and have developed specialized investigative methodologies for online trafficking. I am at the forefront of conservation technology, representing TRAFFIC at the 2025 Applied Conservation Technology Congress in Vietnam, where I focused on integrating SMART, EarthRanger, and CMORE to enhance technology-enabled conservation and intrusion detection.

My professional identity is built at the intersection of operational intelligence and institutional reform. I am currently finalising a Master of Science in Nature Conservation (UNISA) that provides a firsthand diagnostic of the "Crime Scene to Court" (CSTC) continuum, identifying critical institutional fractures, such as legislative "legal chaos" and the "Schedule 1 bail crisis"—to improve prosecutorial outcomes against transnational organized crime.

I am an expert practitioner in an advanced analytical toolset, including SERCA, ArcGIS, Power BI, i2 Analyst’s Notebook, and SADC TWIX, used for spatial crime correlation and criminal network mapping. I am now immediately available for senior technical advisory, project management, or leadership roles globally (Remote or on-site) to help secure our shared future against the shadow economy.

Contact: +2772 840 9765 / [email protected] 

Hi @DaveGaynor and team. I am really keen to pursue this with some practical testing in Kenyan conservancies. What is the status of this effort, and could we meet to discuss how to take it forward as part of the Global Conservation Tech and Drone Forum in Nairobi, 2-6 March. I am chair of the Society for Conservation Biology Drone and Data Working Group and would like to discuss this at our inaugural meeting on 20th January.  https://wildlabs.net/discussion/scb-drones-and-data-working-group-society-conservation-biology 

Hi team, Can you please provide an update on where this effort sits now? The original post from January 2024 described three trials of airborne synthetic aperture radar for detecting snares and gin traps with foliage-penetrating radar scanning at 120 m AGL and generating geolocated alerts back into EarthRanger with identity and confidence metrics.

I want to add this as one of our competitions at the Global Conservation Tech & Drone Forum www.GCTDF.org in Kenya in early March, and include it in the new SCB Drones and Data WG as a discussion: https://wildlabs.net/discussion/scb-drones-and-data-working-group-society-conservation-biology 
 

This would build on the recent launch of a hands-on Tech Innovation Challenge around of the ADS-B proximity alert ,  as a safety layer in real conservation field operations where pilots are often multitasking. Please let me know the current status, data availability, key contacts, and what next steps might look like if this is to be integrated into the Forum and the Working Group agenda.

Thanks.

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Airborne synthetic aperture radar for detection of snares sounds really effective! I would love to learn more about this. Dogs are also amazing a detecting snares but of course can't cover the same distance and constant survellience. Is it possible to share the benefits and barriers of this work after the 3 trials?

Hi Stephen, Hi All!

I'm very keen to see this group be created and bring together a wide audience of those interested in Z&A's role in conservation tech. I have recently started as a researcher at Marwell Wildlife / the University of Surrey in the UK, and I like many of you I am particularly interested in how to transfer utility from Zoo research to in-situ contexts. 

Looking forward to chatting to you all as this group grows!

I am very excited about the group being launched and am eagerly awaiting it! This platform is such a unique hub for networking and support. 

I eagerly await further information about the progress of this type of technology and its availability. I am a wildlife veterinarian with experience in handling and capturing wild carnivores, and this type of device would certainly facilitate epidemiological monitoring of elusive and logistically difficult-to-handle wildlife species. Greetings from Chile!