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WILDLABS logoWildlabs.net : La red de tecnología para la conservación

Grupo

Comunidad de América Latina / Canal de noticias

Este grupo tiene como objetivo establecer un centro regional en América Latina que proporcione un espacio para el intercambio de conocimientos y la creación de redes entre el creciente número de personas que trabajan en tecnología para la conservación en la región.

Curadores del grupo

Jaqueline Garcia-Yi
Ecosonus
Researcher and co-founder of Ecosonus, a startup incubated at Harvard Innovation Labs that develops AI-powered tools combining bioacoustics, remote sensing, and geospatial modeling to monitor biodiversity. 
Mensaje

Marconi
WildMon
Marconi Campos-Cerqueira is the Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer of WildMon, a nonprofit organization dedicated to democratizing access to technology for biodiversity monitoring.
Mensaje
discusión

🐸 WILDLABS Awards 2025: Open-Source Solutions for Amphibian Monitoring: Adapting Autonomous Recording Devices (ARDs) and AI-Based Detection in Patagonia

Marcelo Bonino

27 Mayo 2025 8:39pm

We’re excited to launch our WILDLABS-funded project to adapt open-source recording hardware and AI tools to help monitor amphibians, with an initial focus on one of South America'...

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Marcelo Bonino

12 November 2025 7:36pm

🌿 Project Update — November 2025
Sharing our experience at the Symposium on Physics Applied to Ecology and Conservation (Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil).

We’d like to thank Carlos Araujo for kindly inviting us to take part in the Symposium on Physics Applied to Ecology and Conservation, held on November 6–7, 2025, at the PTI Campus – Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana (UNILA) in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil.

The event aimed to build bridges between researchers from different disciplines and countries, exploring how physics can support acoustic monitoring, ecological data collection, and biodiversity conservation.

🎙️ We joined Roundtable 3 — Hardware, Sensors, and Audio Recording, where we discussed:

Open-source autonomous recorders for biodiversity monitoring.

Energy-efficient design and sensor integration.

Alternative battery types and power solutions (particularly relevant to our developments)


🎥 Watch the roundtable recording here.


It was also a great opportunity to share our experience and highlight the WildLabs community, connecting with colleagues working at the intersection of physics, ecology, and technology.

 

 


 

 

Marcelo Bonino

9 June 2026 3:36pm

Hi everyone!

Following up on our project development, we have just published the full report on our work integrating environmental monitoring into AudioMoth devices and the resulting BirdNET workflows for Patagonian amphibians. You can find the complete documentation and results here.

Beyond the technical implementation, we’ve documented the custom firmware, the AI training pipeline for our species, and the practical challenges we faced during field deployments:

Project Video: YouTube Video Link

Firmware: AudioMoth I2C Firmware Repository (GitLab)

AI Workflow: BirdNET-based Workflow for Amphibians (GitHub)

Edge Models: TinyFrog Repository (GitHub)

PyTorch reimplementation: BirdNET-Analyzer (GitHub)

If you are working on similar setups or have questions about the hardware or the workflow, feel free to reach out. I hope this documentation proves useful for your own research.

Thanks for the support and the exchange of ideas during these months!

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discusión

Call for Collaboration: Share your voice at ICTC next week! 

Mandy Eyrich

11 February 2026 3:29am

Hello, fellow WILDLAB-ers! I'm Mandy, your current Human-Wildlife Coexistence Group Leader!  :)I am heading to the ICTC conference in Peru next week and while reviewing the...

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Mandy Eyrich

19 February 2026 3:35am

Hi Anna!

Is there anything that sparks your curiosity, which I can address for you? Take a look at the upcoming day 2 and day 3 sessions, and if you see anything that intrigues you, please let me know! I'll happily join the session that aligns, and share your thoughts! ☺️

Kind regards,

Mandy

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artículo

Traducción de WILDLABS

WILDLABS Team and 1 more

23 April 2026 3:51pm

Nos complace anunciar nuestra nueva funcionalidad de traducción multilingüe en WILDLABS, comenzando con el español. Lee más sobre nuestras nuevas opciones de traducción de contenido y capacidades de traducción con IA.

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Frank van der Most

2 May 2026 9:59pm

Three words: W O W ! This is the best innovation of the forum since it started! Finally, we can now easily share our knowledge in other languages. I am super glad that the WildLabs team got around to getting this done!

Frank van der Most

2 May 2026 10:04pm

 A quick question: is it the caste that if I want an article or post to be findable in another language through the Search box, I should make a translated version?

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evento

🌿 Encuentro Virtual Abril 2026 – Comunidad Latinoamericana Wildlabs

Jaqueline Garcia-Yi

24 Marzo 2026 5:57pm

El lenguage de los anfibios: sonidos y vibraciones para su estudio y conservación

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Jaqueline Garcia-Yi

27 March 2026 2:01pm

El Dr. Rafael Márquez es Investigador Científico del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC, Madrid) y fundador de la Fonoteca Zoológica, una de las principales colecciones de sonidos animales del mundo. Su trabajo integra el estudio de sonidos y vibraciones (biotremología) como herramientas clave para la investigación y conservación de anfibios.

Jaqueline Garcia-Yi

6 May 2026 5:19pm

Muchas gracias a los que pudieron asistir! Fuimos en total 35 personas que asistimos al evento virtual. Espero que podamos publicar el video proximamente.

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discusión

Camera trap or fixed-camera setups for insect guild monitoring at dung/carrion stations (Brazil)

Dominee Cagle

24 Enero 2026 8:51pm

Hi everyone,I’m a PhD student in tropical ecology based in Brazil, and I’m currently planning a field pilot that will use cameras to monitor invertebrate (insect) activity at...

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Andrew Quitmeyer

3 March 2026 2:14pm

@Hubertszcz maybe you have advice: "Minimum resolution or lens characteristics that are sufficient for guild-level classification" 

 

i don't really know what guild-level means.

 

@domvonmatter - do you have a photo or drawing example of what a carrion station would look like on the forest floor? like will the camera be on the ground? Will it be above the ground but looking down?

how big of an area does it need to image?

 

what data do you need to get out? Like behavior that might need full motion video but maybe lower visual resolution? or just identification that might need lower temporal resolution, but higher visual resolution

Robert (Bob) Zak

6 March 2026 11:28pm

There aren’t that many close-focus trail cameras.  The only current model I’m aware of is the GardePro E8PCF.  It is fixed focus at 200mm (no zoom).  I have not used this camera, but know others who have.  It has a timelapse feature. One thing to check before buying is that the timelapse feature works at night.  The GP website has a picture that suggests this true, but I know (for example) that in Browning camera timelapse does not work at night.

[There are other options.  You can attach lenses from reading glasses to a standard focus trail camera to convert it to close focus.  I have developed firmware hacks for older Browning SpecOps and ReconForce cameras that allows the timelapse to work around the clock.  Alas, these hacks don’t work on the latest HP5-Ultra models, and retrofitting optics on a pile of cameras is probably not how you want to spend your time. I'd try the GP]

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discusión

Counting aggregated animals in orthomosaics?

Ismael V. Brack

11 July 2025 8:51pm

Hello everyone!Just wanted to share two papers that we published recently on approaches to deal with counting errors when surveying wildlife populations using drone-derived...

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Arky

26 July 2025 6:59am

Thank you for sharing. Would love to learn bit more about the data workflow. 

Last year I tired to using QGIS and few existing models to count the birds from orthomosaics of wadding birds in Cambodia but gave after dismal results. 

Nahuel Emiliano Farias

10 February 2026 8:13pm

Great papers, thanks for sharing! 
We’ve been using drones to detect color-tagged crabs in saltmarshes, which allowed us to achieve a 60% recapture rate—something that was impossible with traditional trap or sampling methods.

By comparing orthomosaics captured at consecutive time intervals, we managed to re-detect individuals and quantify their movement for the first time. However, our detection process was done manually by eye.

I’m now looking into automated detection. Do you know of any existing tools that could be adapted for tracking color-coded targets across sequential maps, or would you recommend developing an ad hoc solution?

Best,
Nahuel

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discusión

New in bioacustics, need some advice

Bernarda Vásquez Ávila

26 Diciembre 2025 6:02pm

Hello everyone,I am currently working with bird banding data in Ecuador as part of a long-term monitoring program that has been running for over 20 years. Over the past two years...

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discusión

Exploring Ocean Biodiversity: A Multimodal Data Project Focused on the Humboldt Current

Jaqueline Garcia-Yi

15 Octubre 2025 7:40pm

🌊 Ongoing Project: Identifying Marine Biodiversity Hotspots Using Multimodal DataHello everyone! 👋We’re currently developing a capstone project as part of the...

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Ruben D. Ramírez Ramírez

8 November 2025 10:41pm

Hello Jaqueline!!

 

I would like to recommend reaching out to Dr. Santiago Martinez Balvanera, a Mexican researcher currently based at University College London (UCL), who works on advancing machine learning techniques for acoustic biodiversity monitoring.

You can find more information about his background and work here:  

 

Ximena Velez-Zuazo

14 November 2025 1:29pm

Hi Jaqueline, 

Great to learn about this project development, and based in Peru. Our research group is based in Peru, and we integrate diverse technologies to monitor and assess biodiversity, advancing marine sciences and conservation. Our main ongoing and long-term project is on the central coast of Peru (www.bmap.pe). I would be interested in learning more and discussing potential collaboration opportunities. 

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