Conservation technology is already transforming our understanding of climate change's impacts on key environments and species around the world, allowing us to monitor populations and their changing ranges, observe habitat destruction and events like coral bleaching over time, and study the aftermath of major climate disasters like bushfires.
Because climate change is a global challenge shared by all of us, with no species, habitat, or continent completely untouched by its impacts, it's more important than ever to unite the conservation tech users and makers who are already gathering critical data and forming innovative ideas to help us meet these challenges.
Whatever conservation technology you work with, and whatever your expertise may be, there is a place for you in the fight against climate change. This group is a place to brainstorm and collaborate, share experiences and commiserate about the challenges ahead, find reasons to be optimistic about technology's role in this fight, and hopefully spark ideas that can make a positive impact for the species and habitats that we protect.
Wondering how to get started in this group? Here are some examples of topics to kick things off:
- Do you have a case study or project update related to climate change impacts? (For example, have your study species' migratory patterns changed because of changing weather patterns? Did your Audiomoths or camera traps capture data on a climate-driven disaster? Have challenges like melting sea ice altered your research timelines or made it more difficult to study your species?)
- Do you have a question about how your expertise could fit into innovating climate change solutions? Or do you have data to share that could help someone else understand climate change impacts or address challenges?
- Do you have an innovative idea that could help combat climate change, but need input or skills from other members with expertise in different areas or with different tools?
- Do you have a great resource to share that could help other members learn something new about climate change technology?
This group is new to the WILDLABS platform and set to grow - we can't wait to see what resources you'll share, what projects you'll start, and what solutions you'll find together!
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I aim to transition my career towards conservation technology after gaining two years of experience in the tech industry.
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Wildlife Drones has developed the world’s most innovative radio animal-tracking system using drones so you can track your radio-tagged animals like never before.
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MSc Marine Biologist and Data Scientist, Co-Founder and CSO & CTO of Galene Pathways
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I studied Wildlife and Ecotourism Management in University of Ìbàdàn, Nigeria, I'm a front-end developer. I am interested in conservation technology
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Studio Pixel
AI integration architect, AI product manager. I've built the front-end of this website 😁
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Ocean Conservationist
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Heading up comms for a conservation agency based in the United Arab Emirates
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Founder & CEO of RoboticsCats, a machine vision startup. Our AI wildfire detection SaaS is protecting forests & communities in Asia, Europe & LATAM.
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African Parks/D.R. Congo
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Founder of Enduata Emaa community based organisation , Conservationist and advocate of climate action
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Climate X are seeking an enthusiastic and capable climate scientist to quantify climate change-related risks and physical impacts of tropical and temperate storms.
10 May 2022
Check out this round-up of three of the latest conservation tech studies and news. See more conservation tech news by subscribing to our bi-monthly digest.
24 March 2022
The Biodiversity on a Changing Planet Program by National Science Foundation invites submissions of interdisciplinary proposals addressing grand challenges in biodiversity science within the context of unprecedented...
16 December 2021
In pursuit of saving the Monarch butterflies, Carlo Mondavi- pioneer of the Monarch challenge- was inspired to develop the world's first fully electric smart tractor tractor with co-founder and Chief Executive, Praveen...
29 November 2021
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This research article explores the challenges of achieving environmental data justice, with the continued advancement in technology and growth in available data. The author emphasises the necessity to prioritise ...
26 November 2021
In this article, Swarm Technologies give a detailed analysis of the tradeoffs between the most common IoT connectivity solutions to improving food production, combating climate change, optimizing supply chains and many...
19 November 2021
This article outlines how acoustic monitoring of bird species provides a means to study ecosystems with minimal disturbance and over wide areas. Birds are excellent indicator species, therefore, monitoring their trend...
21 October 2021
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Measuring carbon in nature helps us understand and enhance the role ecosystems play in mitigating climate change. WWF Canada’s second technology challenge – Nature x Carbon – is making it easier to identify carbon-rich...
1 July 2021
The latest Technology Quarterly special issue from The Economist highlights the theme of protecting biodiversity, and covers topics including climate change's impacts on biodiversity, modelling ecosystems, using...
17 June 2021
MIT Solve is seeking solutions for technology-based solutions that help communities restore, sustain, and benefit from resilient ecosystems. Submissions close on June 16, 2021. Read more about the challenge's...
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Biologging, Climate Change, Sensors, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Emerging Tech | 7 months 3 weeks ago | |
Hi all! Our sustainability series, Sustained Effort, officially wrapped this month. The finale shared on WILDLABS focuses on this exact topic - finding the smallest possible ways... |
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Climate Change, Community Base | 8 months 3 weeks ago | |
Brendan is a great interviewer; reach out to him if you have any interest in this topic! |
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Climate Change, Community Base, East Africa Community, Emerging Tech, Software and Mobile Apps | 9 months 2 weeks ago | ||
@richardturere Hello :) and a warm welcome to WILDLABS! Here is the link to @Lekato Samuel Lekato - Founder and Chairman, Enduata Emaa CBO. Sam is interested in conservation... |
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Citizen Science, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Human-Wildlife Conflict | 9 months 3 weeks ago | |
Here's another article I came across about tracking gear powered by animal movement, which would drastically reduce the need for batteries and increase the lifespan of biologging... |
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Climate Change, Community Base | 11 months ago | |
Nearly the year anniversary - Just 29 days away from when I first wrote this reply! We have made some major updates and also we are bringing forward new productsAll of Ceres Tags... |
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Climate Change | 11 months 2 weeks ago | |
greetings! i sent you a PM regarding this, feel free to contact me however is most convenient for you - regards,chris |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Climate Change, East Africa Community, Wildlife Crime | 1 year ago | |
Adding some links that @CarlosAbrahams sent on Twitter last week, just to avoid having to go back to twitter to find them (Thanks Carlos!!!!)UK Bat/Wind Report http://randd.defra.... |
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Climate Change | 1 year 9 months ago | |
More info on the CCAI flyer here (doc also attached to the post)."From August 15-26, CCAI will be hosting a ten-day... |
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Forest fire and the resulting haze has become an almost annual disaster in Indonesia and Malaysia. The haze that covered much of Southeast... |
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Due diligence for Nature Based Solutions
5 April 2023 3:38pm
Climate Change Manager, Arm
27 March 2023 3:58pm
Catch up with The Variety Hour: March 2023
23 March 2023 11:09am
Climate crisis drives a rise in human-wildlife conflicts
1 March 2023 10:51pm
New article about how climate change and human-wildlife conflict go hand-in-hand. Would be interesting to hear from our climate change and HWC groups about how climate scientists and community members who are innovating HWC tech solutions could work together collaboratively to understand and address this growing problem.
Amazon Sustainability Accelerator
15 February 2023 10:22am
Call for Proposals: 'Can Technology Save Biodiversity?'
10 February 2023 10:31am
Tech for a sustainable future: The challenges and opportunities ahead
10 February 2023 10:30am
Interesting read on how tech is contributing to climate change and what companies are doing to improve sustainability.
How to conduct rapid eligibility assessments for forest carbon projects using geospatial data
3 February 2023 3:32pm
We need more people using Earth observation data
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International Congress for Conservation Biology
16 January 2023 2:53pm
FULL STACK DEVELOPER (FOREST COMMUNITIES MONITORING SYSTEM)
19 December 2022 10:40am
Join NASA’s harmful algal bloom ML challenge and win prizes!
15 December 2022 7:56pm
ONLINE TRAINING: Project Planning for Wildlife Conservation
15 December 2022 7:11pm
Post Doctoral Fellow - Computer Vision/Arctic Avian Ecology
7 December 2022 4:21am
New: Satellites for Biodiversity Award
5 December 2022 2:08pm
Wildlife Protection and the Clean Energy Transition
30 November 2022 10:26pm
Tech and Biodiversity Conference, London
15 November 2022 2:07pm
Carbon Hack 22
11 October 2022 12:17pm
Frontiers Symposium: Digital tools for reversing environmental degradation
5 October 2022 10:23am
18 Sustainability Job Opportunities at Google
3 October 2022 7:09pm
The planet matters. People matter. Location matters.
23 September 2022 12:16pm
Catch Up with the Variety Hour: October 2022
22 September 2022 1:59pm
Mongabay article: New tech aims to track carbon in every tree, boost carbon market integrity
20 September 2022 3:05pm
New digital platform, created by CTrees, for calculating carbon stored in trees around the world. Uses AI-enabled satellite datasets to give near-real-time forest carbon storage & emissions.
Amazon Sustainability call for proposals — Fall 2022
20 September 2022 11:37am
Research Software Engineer, Climate & Sustainability, IBM
16 September 2022 2:18pm
Applications of Conservation Technology to the Power Grid
4 August 2022 4:25pm
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Super interesting, Robin!
Do you know what kind of monitoring they're using? The site doesn't really clarify much on that.
12 August 2022 3:28am
Interesting thread david. Not specific to renewables but we've deployed sound cannons activated by RADAR to keep birds off tailings ponds to great effect.
Could likely use a similar solution to avoid having to spin down wind turbines in area's where the noise isn't as much of a concern.
Dazzling lasers would also be a good option for getting birds to avoid turbines.
15 August 2022 3:00pm
Adding some links that @CarlosAbrahams sent on Twitter last week, just to avoid having to go back to twitter to find them (Thanks Carlos!!!!)
UK Bat/Wind Report http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&Module=More&Location=None&ProjectID=16734&FromSearch=Y&Status=3&Publisher=1&SearchText=wc0753&SortString=ProjectCode&SortOrder=Asc&Paging=10#Description
Automated Wind/Bird monitoring and mitigation system https://dtbird.com/index.php
Nightjar monitoring at a wind farm https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2688-8319.12052
Radar to monitor bird and bats at wind farms https://detect-inc.com/wind-energy-bird-bat-radars/?gclid=CjwKCAjw6MKXBhA5EiwANWLODB9-Tq9k3h3JdMC7bLvVMKMG009HW3HmgVRt5blyv4pocz75L1IARBoCSTMQAvD_BwE
Radar to monitor birds at offshore wind farms https://group.vattenfall.com/uk/newsroom/pressreleases/2019/ornithology-embraces-the-digital-age-as-radars-to-be-deployed-on-ground-breaking-offshore-wind-research
Research Technician - Unoccupied Aircraft Systems Pilot and Geospatial Analyst
10 August 2022 10:40pm
3yr Postdoctoral Associate: Remote Sensing and Unoccupied Aircraft Systems
10 August 2022 5:29pm
Technology may solve climate change problems, but it’s also causing them | VentureBeat
8 August 2022 11:26am
Interesting thought piece from Mark Minevitch (AI for Good) et al. on the promise of AI and other ICT innovation to deliver on climate challenges, existing ICT sector emissions - and the three types of carbon lock-in which need to be actively managed (behavioural, digital, infrastructure).
'The danger is that the promises of digital technology can blind us to its less-recognized contributions to climate woes. Emissions from the ICT sector already rival those of the airline industry. Moreover, the few studies done so far (a,b,c) suggest the ICT sector’s emissions will at least double to 2-3 GTCO2e and if the rise in global GHG emissions is limited to 1.5˚C by 2030, contribute approximately 10% of the global GHG burden — nearly equal to that of the automotive industry. And these are cautious estimates.'
3 February 2023 11:11am