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Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new Discussion - "Innovation Group Model for practical product development & in-field user testing" to Community Base
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new Event - "FutureAg Conference and Exhibition: Innovation Starts Here" to Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new Discussion - "IoT & insect smart traps that collaborate?" to Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new External Link - "Weed-AI: Supporting the AI revolution in weed control" to AI for Conservation
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new External Link - "OpenAgTech newsletter: Bringing you the latest in open-source tech for agriculture." to Open Source Solutions
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new External Link - "Open Source Agriculture Repository" to Open Source Solutions
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new External Link - "Sticky Pi: A smart insect trap to study daily activity in the field" to Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new External Link - "Insect Detect: Build your own insect-detecting camera trap!" to Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new External Link - "ecoTECH YouTube webinar playlist by Biological Recording Company" to Acoustics
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new Discussion - "AgTech: Breaking out of silos" to Community Base
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new Discussion - "iNaturalist tips & tricks?" to Citizen Science
Amber Balfour-Cunningham contributed to Organisation - "The University of Western Australia"
Amber Balfour-Cunningham contributed to Organisation - "WA Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD)"
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new Organisation - "WA Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD)"
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new Organisation - "The University of Western Australia"
Amber Balfour-Cunningham added a new Discussion - "Free graphics for conservation tech communications" to Conservation Tech Training and Education
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- London Climate Action Week 2026 Conservation Technology Related Events?
The WILDLABS Community Base is the ideal place to get oriented with the all that our community platform offers, hear about news and opportunities, and to meet new friends and collaborators.
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- The State of Conservation Technology: What Five Years of Data Tell Us
Our 2026 report is here, drawing on five years of community-sourced data to explore how the field is evolving, where progress is being made, and where collective action is still needed.
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- Boring Fund Report for Creating Global Open-Access Ground-Truth Datasets for Insect Monitoring
Improving the computer vision detection model for the Mothbox, an automatic insect monitoring tool from Dinalab
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There are educators everywhere working to teach and train the next generation of sustainability minded students. Whether in formal settings (K-12, undergraduate, graduate) settings or informally as science communication now it is more important than ever to work towards advancing Conservation Tech education. By working on interdisciplinary teams we can help develop teaching and training tools to help expand the field of Conservation Technology creation.
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- What Happens When Conservation Technology Leaves the Lab? Lessons from Training Rural Communities in the Brazilian Cerrado
Thanks to support from the WILDLABS Awards through the Boring Fund, funded by Arm, we were able to deliver a conservation technology training programme designed to make wildlife monitoring tools more accessible to rural communities.
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Anyone can become a citizen scientist - even experts! If you're excited about exploring new areas of conservation tech, contributing to projects, or developing and launching your own citizen science projects or apps, this is the group for you.
🌍 Conservation technology is transforming how we protect wildlife, but are we thinking carefully enough about the risks? Drones, camera traps, GPS trackers, acoustic sensors, AI, and remote sensing have become essential tools for conservation practitioners around the world. They help us monitor species, detect threats, and respond faster than ever before. But these same technologies can also introduce unintended risks, and in some cases, can be exploited by those seeking to harm the very wildlife we're trying to protect. 🦏 Input now and/or join the discussions/research.
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This group is for anyone interested in open source technologies for ecology and conservation. We welcome contributions from both makers and users, whether active or prospective. Here, we believe that open source hardware, software, and data are key to conducting both rigorous and honorable science and research. It is a place to share novel or existing technologies, exchange resources, discuss new projects, ask for advice, find collaborators, advocate for adopting open source technologies, and share strategies for making them sustainable. Open Source Solutions naturally overlaps with existing WILDLABS groups, and we aim to embrace this overlap while maintaining our unique space for growth of Open Source Solutions as a priority in conservation science.
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- A breakthrough in low cost sea turtle satellite tagging and telemetry
It was on the shores of French Guiana, at 4am in the morning, that after 8 years of research and development to develop a ready-to-deploy open source satellite sea turtle tag, we achieved our goal.
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The Free ArcGIS Online Instant Apps use iNaturalistAU observation fields to convert point observations into circular plots, displaying the proximity of weed infestations to native species, and weed control work....
26 November 2025
I thought you might find this model of connecting tech start-ups and developers to end users through Innovation Groups interesting and useful for inspiration. Conservation and...
30 June 2025
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Question! A key issue faced in my research area is that it is important to know the number of pest adult moths flying around a crop or weedy area, but also how many eggs or pest...
26 May 2025
Weeds, by definition, are plants in the wrong place but Weed-AI is helping put weed image data in the right place. Weed-AI is an open source, searchable, weeds image data platform designed to facilitate the research and...
7 May 2025
Bringing you the latest in open-source technology for agriculture. This accompanies the Open Source Agriculture respository: Collating all open-source datasets, software tools and deployment platforms related to open-...
1 May 2025
Repository for all things open-source in agricultural technology (agritech) development by Guy Coleman. This accompanies the OpenSourceAg newsletter. Aiming to collate all open-source datasets and projects in agtech...
1 May 2025
Sticky Pis are scalable, smart sticky traps using a high frequency Raspberry Pi camera to automatically score when, which and where insects were captured. Author: Quentin Geissmann, 2023
29 April 2025
The Biological Recording Company's ecoTECH YouTube playlist has a focus on webinars about Bioacoustic monitoring.
29 April 2025
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I am a PhD student an new WILDLABS member and am loving it so far! Especially the WILDLABS.NET Variety Hour YouTube recordings and the different discussion groups!I loved the...
29 April 2025
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iNaturalist (iNat) may be the most successful citizen science venture ever. Now at over 230 million verifiable reports, 290 000 active users and 5000 publications. It is easy to...
28 April 2025
Visual communication means we’re all speaking the same language. Do you know of any conservation tech or general science graphics libraries?I find them helpful for presentations,...
27 April 2025
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