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Xavier Mestdagh added a new Article - "A new underwater camera trap for freshwater wildlife monitoring" to Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects
Xavier Mestdagh added a new Career Opportunity - "BIODIVERSITY DATA ENGINEER - open position" to Data Management & Mobilisation
Xavier Mestdagh added a new Career Opportunity - "PHD IN AUTOMATED FRESHWATER DIATOM ANALYSIS USING DEEP LEARNING" to AI for Conservation
Xavier Mestdagh added a new Career Opportunity - "INTERNSHIP FOR COMPUTER VISION BASED INSECT DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION" to AI for Conservation
Xavier Mestdagh added a new Article - "NewtCAM observations" to Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects
Xavier Mestdagh added a new Discussion - "Newt belly pattern for picture-matching" to Camera Traps
Xavier Mestdagh added a new Discussion - "Underwater camera trap - call for early users" to Camera Traps
Xavier Mestdagh added a new External Link - "Underwater camera trap for amphibian - Call for early users " to Camera Traps
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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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- Getting behavioral data out of datasets that weren't built for it
Looking for a place to discuss camera trap troubleshooting, compare models, collaborate with members working with other technologies like machine learning and bioacoustics, or share and exchange data from your camera trap research? Get involved in our Camera Traps group! All are welcome whether you are new to camera trapping, have expertise from the field to share, or are curious about how your skill sets can help those working with camera traps.
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- New Book on Camera Trapping Tech
Trail Cameras & Custom Camera Traps: Technology, Ethics & Strategies for Success
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- Anyone using Microsoft Sparrow?
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in the field to analyse information collected by wildlife conservationists, from camera traps and satellite images to audio recordings. AI can learn how to identify which photos out of thousands contain rare species; or pinpoint an animal call out of hours of field recordings - hugely reducing the manual labour required to collect vital conservation data. The AI For Conservation group is intended to unite and inspire all WILDLABS community members—whether already involved in AI for conservation, or not—to understand how to use and/or directly contribute to open-source research and development efforts.
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- Open-Source Solutions for Amphibian Passive Acoustic Monitoring: Lessons from Patagonia
Monitoring amphibians across the temperate forests of Patagonia presents significant logistical and technical challenges. Remote locations, harsh environmental conditions, and the large volumes of data generated by Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) can make long-term biodiversity surveys difficult to implement and maintain. In addition, environmental data often relies on multiple independent devices, increasing costs, complexity, and logistical demands in remote field conditions. Through the WILDLABS Awards 2025, our team explored practical ways to address these challenges by combining open-source hardware, environmental sensing, and AI-assisted acoustic analysis.
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Conservation tech work doesn't stop after data is collected in the field. Equally as important to success is navigating data management and processing tools. For the many community members who deal with enormous datasets, this group will be an invaluable resource to trade advice, discuss workflows and tools, and share what works for you.
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- Wild Moves and Wild Album: New GBIF Data Portals for Animal Tracking and Camera Trap Data
New data portals are making it easier to discover and explore wildlife tracking and camera trap datasets from around the world.
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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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A 6-month experience to work on image management produced worldwide by NewtCAMs.
4 November 2025
Proud of sharing our paper introducing our underwater camera trap, a solution for automating the production of underwater images and videos of amphibians, reptiles, invertebrates, mammals...
2 July 2025
Temporary contract | 36 months | Luxembourg
3 March 2025
Up to 48 months contract - 14+22 (+12) | Belvaux
25 February 2025
Up to 6 months internship position to work on DiMON project which aims to develop a non-lethal, compact device that, when coupled with traditional entomological traps, captures high-resolution, multi-view insect images...
25 February 2025
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NewtCAM is an underwater camera trap. Devices are getting deployed worldwide in the frame of the CAMPHIBIAN project and thanks to the support of our kind early users. Here an outcome from the UK.
24 February 2025
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Hi!We are investigating the ability to use belly pattern of Great crested newts (Triturus cristatus) at larval stage for picture-matching in capture-recapture studies. Do...
18 April 2024
Hi!The CAMPHIBIAN project aims at developing an underwater camera trap primarily targeting amphibian such as newts, but co-occurring taxa are recorded as well such as frogs, grass...
13 December 2023
Hi! CAMPHIBIAN project develops an underwater camera trap for amphibian. The interest has been proven on newts and grass snake in NW Europe. We are looking for early users worldwide, diversify target species and...
13 December 2023
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