Cho Sung-ha asked back with a blank face at the random words
27th June 2022 at 11:01pm
New Conservation Tech Directory update
27th June 2022 at 04:45pm
What are your biggest sustainability challenges and issues in your work?
27th June 2022 at 04:18pm
27th June 2022 at 10:52pm
This recent article might also be of interest with regard to @dtsavage's point on carbon footprints, but with more of an emphasis on software/AI here - https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-carbon-footprint. "Measuring AI's Carbon Footprint"
Conservation Tech Award: Apply For Two $15K Grants
23rd June 2022 at 06:38pm
Program Coordinator - Learning and Leadership for Conservation (LLC)
23rd June 2022 at 02:45pm
Floating mount/base for cameratrap?
23rd June 2022 at 02:36pm
23rd June 2022 at 08:49pm
@Rob_Appleby @Freaklabs
24th June 2022 at 06:07am
I haven't tried anything like a floating mount for camera traps so would love to stay posted on how it goes. It would open up a lot of possibilities, but it sounds quite complicated too.
WILDLABS Virtual Meetup: Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology (Recording)
22nd June 2022 at 10:24pm
Live Q&A session on AI models for Processing Camera Trap Imagery:A highlight of WildID.
22nd June 2022 at 01:42pm
Acoustic multilateration for gibbons
22nd June 2022 at 11:49am
23rd June 2022 at 02:03pm
Awesome stuff!! Interested in what kind of recorders you are using and how are you sync'ing them for the TDOA?
New papers on passive acoustic monitoring
21st June 2022 at 09:44pm
Grants for vehicles
21st June 2022 at 05:10pm
21st June 2022 at 09:33pm
There was a previous Wildlabs thread on this - https://wildlabs.net/discussion/conservation-grants-field-vehicles but it didn't garner any comments unfortunately.
I'm not sure if IdeaWild allows for car repairs? The grants are for equipment specifically. That's a small grant anyways though ($1500) so you'd probably need something bigger it sounds like.
I don't know of any grants specifically funding this, but most people I know who have gotten vehicles have applied for bigger grants that they write a new vehicle into as a budget line item (e.g., WWF, WCS, CI, MBZ, national agencies like NSF).
22nd June 2022 at 03:58pm
Hi Carly,
Thanks for digging up my previous thread (I couldn't find it). I guess I've been asking this question for a few years now!
I had also heard of grants from car companies but it seems they stopped doing this (or limit their support to areas around their factories, like Toyota).
Thermal cameras for monitoring visitors in highly vulnerable conservation areas
21st June 2022 at 03:44pm
21st June 2022 at 09:20pm
You should talk with the folks at Arribada Initiative, like @Alasdair, as they've used thermal cameras to automatically detect polar bears & alert local response teams (to avoid human-wildlife conflict). The folks at ConservationAI are also doing similar work. RESOLVE also has the Trailguard system
Most of the geofencing projects I know of are working with tags rather than cameras (e.g., LionShield, Save the Elephants) but it sounds like that wouldn't be as relevant for your needs.
The Conservation Tech Directory may have other examples as well.
22nd June 2022 at 07:14am
Thanks! Actually a major concern is wether thermal cameras could substitute the use of eco-counters, and therefore save money and reduce complexity in data analysis.
I will contact them.
23rd June 2022 at 01:41pm
At Ol Pejeta, through the Kifaru Rising project, we have 19 FLIR thermal cameras that we use to address poaching as a conservation challenge.
The cameras have been deployed along a key fence line and are monitored 24/7 by a dedicated team.
The cameras have inbuilt analytics capabilities which allow us to design virtual fences/boundaries.
An Alert is generated whenever a human or vehicles crosses the virtual fence. Following an alert, appropriate ranger action is undertaken depending on the video content recorded with each alert.
I think the Alert feature available with these cameras could be leveraged to monitor the wildlife visitor interaction, seeing as a video clip is recorded with each alert, the thermal video clips could be reviewed to assess the wildlife-human interaction effects.
Using social media for Citizen Science projects - examples
21st June 2022 at 02:40pm
21st June 2022 at 09:07pm
These are fairly low-hanging fruit options if you will (that I'm sure you know about already) but Xeno-Canto & Macaulay Library are online archives for bird images/sounds (Macaulay is for other animals as well). Plus eBird/Merlin, iNaturalist, etc.
You could also check out Key Conservation, run by @mcromp which is working in this space.
You might also check out the Conservation Tech Directory (we have a citizen science filter) to find some examples (e.g., BirdNet, Silent Cities, Cetalingua, Instant Wild). You could also search by 'mobile-app' (another of the filters), as many of those listed have a citizen science component (e.g., Animal Tracker, FinPrint, See Shell).
FlukeBook as a 'tweet-a-whale' thing, so that would be a good example of integration with social media as well.
22nd June 2022 at 07:14am
Hey Natalia,
In addition to what Carly has listed, there's also BirdLasser- You can check it out :)
27th June 2022 at 07:18pm
I mentioned this on the twitter thread as well, but I'd love to do a proper life-cycle carbon analysis on some key monitoring technologies and compare them to in-person monitoring. With all the carbon embodied in sourcing sensors, SD cards, batteries, etc how long do you have to run your sensors to make them better in carbon terms than in-person surveys?
A paper just came out on this that could provide an interesting starting point. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/pan3.10333