With experts across the WILDLABS community working with every type of technology and in every imaginable environment, our platform is a great place to find advice and resources on choosing what tools are right for your conservation project. Whether you're in the market to try a new camera trap model, want to experiment with drones for the first time, or need help weighing the pros and cons of data management tools, there's someone in the WILDLABS community who can help you make a smart and informed choice!
The Community Base is our general gathering group. It's the place where we cover more general, big picture topics in conservation technology - ones that don't fit neatly into our other groups. If you don't know where to post something, just post it in this group. Our moderators will move it if needed!
At our Community Base, you'll find updates from the WILDLABS team on upcoming events and opportunities, and have the chance to shape our programs and platform with your opinions. And most importantly, the Community Base is also home to our Welcome to WILDLABS thread, the best place to introduce yourself to us and the community. Stop by and tell us what you're working on!
Whether you're new to WILDLABS and want to know where to begin, or you're a longtime member looking for a handy bank of resources, our Getting Started on WILDLABS thread will be your one-stop guide to getting the most out of our platform.
Want to find out more about WILDLABS? Check out our recent community call:
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WILDLABS
I'm the Community Manager at WILDLABS
- 71 Resources
- 539 Discussions
- 30 Groups
WILDLABS
I'm the WILDLABS Research Lead at WWF-US
- 5 Resources
- 48 Discussions
- 24 Groups
WILDLABS Associate Specialist based in Southern California
- 26 Resources
- 114 Discussions
- 14 Groups
Octophin Digital
Application Developer at Octophin Digital and constant maker.
- 0 Resources
- 5 Discussions
- 4 Groups
WILDLABS & Fauna & Flora International (FFI)
Project Officer, WILDLABS
- 3 Resources
- 12 Discussions
- 5 Groups
Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)
Technology Coordinator at Wildlife Protection Solutions
- 0 Resources
- 7 Discussions
- 8 Groups
Passionate and curious about nature and its diversity, I seek to learn more about conservation, new technologies, and the unknown and infinite environmental world.
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 18 Groups
WILDLABS Associate Specialist based in Southern California
- 26 Resources
- 114 Discussions
- 14 Groups
WILDLABS
I'm the Community Manager at WILDLABS
- 71 Resources
- 539 Discussions
- 30 Groups
WILDLABS
I'm the WILDLABS Research Lead at WWF-US
- 5 Resources
- 48 Discussions
- 24 Groups
Wildlife Drones
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.
- 3 Resources
- 2 Discussions
- 32 Groups
Princeton University
African ecologist & large mammal biologist
- 3 Resources
- 15 Discussions
- 9 Groups
Data Scientist
- 0 Resources
- 6 Discussions
- 13 Groups
PhD student-passive acoustic monitoring with lemurs in Madagascar; Science Outreach Coordinator-Rainforest Connection (RFCx)
- 58 Resources
- 215 Discussions
- 18 Groups
30+ years of experience working in biodiversity conservation worldwide, laregely focused on forests, rewilding and conservation technology
- 0 Resources
- 20 Discussions
- 11 Groups
Are you stuck on an AI or ML challenge in your conservation work? Apply now for the chance to receive tailored expert advice from data scientists! Applications due 27th January 2023
18 January 2023
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The WILDLABS Tech Tutors are here to answer your ‘How do I do that?’ questions of conservation technology. This season, our expert speakers will cover tools and topics that help address conservation challenges unique...
18 January 2023
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How can you connect with the #tech4wildlife community outside of social media? WILDLABS has everything you need!
1 December 2022
The two organizations will receive a no-strings-attached grant of $15,000 to help accelerate their plans to leverage technology in order to safeguard wildlife and their habitats across the globe.
9 November 2022
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This SPACES paper aims to inspire the audience to use spatial intelligence as an enabler for integrated nature and climate action. It showcases ’emerging’ data sources and digital technology in the nature and climate...
28 October 2022
Apply now for $2,500–$15,000 USD grants for early-stage ideas or projects that address global challenges.
4 October 2022
Funding
The Activate Fellows supported by NSF will be scientists & engineers from a variety of backgrounds & regions across the U.S. who will translate research breakthroughs to new products & services with broad...
26 September 2022
Last year, WILDLABS published the first global, community-sourced assessment of the State of Conservation Technology, which evolved from our annual community survey. Take the 2022 survey to help us build from this...
14 September 2022
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Get to know Alyssa Bohart, our first WILDBEAR Award recipient, who works with GPS-collared bears in Canada.
22 July 2022
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#AGU22, where Science Leads the Future, will take place in Chicago and online everywhere on 12th-16th December. Submit your abstract by 3rd August, for the Global Environmental change session on: Applications of Earth...
18 July 2022
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Careers
Giraffe Conservation Foundation has now opened this opportunity to qualified candidates willing to work remotely. The position is desktop-based and the successful candidate can work from anywhere in the world to provide...
15 July 2022
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Careers
Service Designer
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Love design, passionate about conversation? Want to make sure that technologies that are being developed actually meet the needs of the people who use them? Come and work for us!
13 July 2022
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It's pretty big for NGOs and I would say there is growing involvement from companies? But it's usually those with strong conservation partnerships. The bigger one is World... |
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Community Base | 1 day 13 hours ago | |
Hi Brett!Thanks! Pure procrastination on my side. I find it a bit of a pity how quiet it can be here sometimes... The project you refer to sound super interesting. You should... |
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Community Base | 1 week 4 days ago | |
Hi everyone,I am conducting a ~10 minute survey which I hope you can fill out and share with your networks... |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education, Community Base | 3 weeks ago | |
Hi everyone!Happy 2023 and a slightly unusual bug fix to mark the first WILDLABS Platform update post of the year.Our emoji / reaction system broke due to the library it relies on... |
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Community Base | 3 weeks 4 days ago | |
intrested. |
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Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools , Early Career, Emerging Tech | 1 month ago | |
Hi Steph. Would be interested also. |
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Biologging, Community Base, Connectivity, Data management and processing tools , Emerging Tech, Remote Sensing & GIS | 1 month 3 weeks ago | |
Hello EO101 community!We hope you have enjoyed the EO101 lecture series! With all four parts now available on the WILDLABS YouTube channel... |
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Earth Observation 101 Community, Community Base | 3 months ago | |
The year that never was... *sigh* Yeah, taking another shot at it would be nice. There was much enthusiasm from folks at the time! |
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Community Base | 4 months ago | |
Thanks so much!! |
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Acoustic Monitoring, AI for Conservation, Biologging, Camera Traps, Community Base, Data management and processing tools , Drones, eDNA & Genomics, Emerging Tech, Open Source Solutions, Remote Sensing & GIS, Software and Mobile Apps | 4 months 1 week ago | |
Eugh me too! Ellie's been working with him to see if we might have him blog here as well.. *FINGERS CROSSED*! |
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Community Base | 4 months 1 week ago | |
Agree with all previous points!My additional input would be that I think there is a lot of opportunity for conservation finance + conservation tech to come together, as I feel... |
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Community Base | 4 months 1 week ago | |
Thanks Carly! I'll pop this on the list of features to discuss with developers. Putting broader regions on the existing list might be possible. It could also be useful to get more... |
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Community Base | 4 months 2 weeks ago |
How do I get started with setting up my camera trap to monitor wildlife?
6 February 2023 5:42pm
What events are you looking forward to this year?
16 January 2023 2:37pm
6 February 2023 9:34am
Is ICCB mostly academic or is there typically a lot of involvement from NGOs and companies?
6 February 2023 10:41am
It's pretty big for NGOs and I would say there is growing involvement from companies? But it's usually those with strong conservation partnerships. The bigger one is World Conservation Congress - but this is only every few years. We've put in a workshop aligned with our movement ecology work, will likely do some talks, and will be hosting side events (both networking and meetings). I'm hearing about quite a lot of other tech events/conversations being organised, so it should be a good place to connect with a good cross section of the conservation tech community.
Key Conservation Platform Launch Party!
2 February 2023 6:17am
Welcome to WILDLABS!
29 October 2015 5:16pm
25 January 2023 3:31pm
Thanks Lars!
27 January 2023 4:09pm
Hey Lars! Love how active you are on here. AI/ML detection is next on our list! The tech is evolving so fast its hard to keep up but I am actively researching it. My cousin just did a project using computer vision for bison herd management. Very cool tech space.
27 January 2023 6:00pm
Hi Brett!
Thanks! Pure procrastination on my side. I find it a bit of a pity how quiet it can be here sometimes...
The project you refer to sound super interesting. You should get your cousin to join Wildlabs and tell us about it. As part of my job, I am monitoring muskoxen at our research station in Greenland. Perhaps we could get some ideas!
Western Section of The Wildlife Society 2023
25 January 2023 2:09am
Apply Now: AI for Conservation Office Hours
18 January 2023 5:15pm
Join us for Tech Tutors: East Africa

18 January 2023 9:13am
How do I fit GPS satellite tags to remotely monitor giraffe movements?
18 January 2023 9:05am
Survey on research culture and sharing - please complete and share!
17 January 2023 5:23pm
International Congress for Conservation Biology
16 January 2023 2:53pm
WILDLABS Platform Updates
31 May 2022 9:20am
11 October 2022 5:22pm
Sneaking into Filip's serious platfrom thread here to share that we just charged past 1,000,000 pageviews! We've seen a big uptick since we launched the new site back in May, so Filip's team definitely filled the brief of making the wealth of information held in our community easier to find and explore. Feels like a solid milestone we should celebrate :D
22 November 2022 6:52pm
Hi everyone!
You may have noticed already but we've been hard at work here in the Octophin Digital team on a completely refreshed discussions system for WILDLABS that we've been rolling out over the last two weeks. I didn't want to write about it until a few bugs were sorted out but here's that update.
We didn't quite get the discussions user experience right at launch (especially when it comes to replies / sub threads) so we hope this new version is a lot easier to use.
November 2022 (several deployments so no clear date this time!)
Discussions
- Better signposting of buttons to reply to a thread or a specific comment
- Quick, no page refresh comment editing system
- Inline form to post a reply to a comment on a discussion
- Deep linking to specific replies to a comment from a notification
- Inline, collapsible display of comment replies, displaying avatars of who's replied
- Options to expand or close all reply threads
- Faster lazy loading of discussion threads without a flash at the start
- Many other design and interaction changes
- We've pushed in some replies imported from the previous version of the platform that were replies to replies to replies(...) so they are now simply listed in date order on the reply thread rather than nested so deep it was hard to find them. Replies are (hopefully uncontroversially) now limited to one level deep.
Hover states
- Thank you to @valeria in the Octophin team for adding many lovely hover states to things across the site that will hopefully make exploring WILDLABS more enjoyable.
Feed
- Sorting on the site feeds (including group feeds) was stacked in favour of new content rather than updates to discussions. A new comment on a discussion will now pop a discussion to the top of the feed so you can quickly see what is new around the site. The feeds can still be filtered to specific types of content in case you want to filter out discussion updates.
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I hope the above changes make the site much more usable. As always, please pop any feedback over to the WILDLABS team in the New Platform Help: Troubleshooting & bugs discussion. A gigantic thank you to @JakeBurton in the WILDLABS team for a mammoth amount of testing, feedback and suggestions for the above.
13 January 2023 3:16pm
Hi everyone!
Happy 2023 and a slightly unusual bug fix to mark the first WILDLABS Platform update post of the year.
Our emoji / reaction system broke due to the library it relies on, Twitter's Twemoji, going down (for reasons discussed in the tweet link below). We have had to fall back to native browser emoji while a replacement / mirror of these is slotted in. This may mean emoji display slightly differently for you in the picker, more resembling your current device / browser.
Thank you to @Alasdair for sending me the below tweet which helped work out what was wrong:
Conservation Design Project Recruitment
19 December 2022 5:52pm
4 January 2023 10:48am
intrested.
Crowdfunding Aerial Baseline Study of Ghost Gear in Koh Phangan, Thailand
18 December 2022 11:06am
We are developing a project in Thailand, using drones to locate lost & discarded fishing gear across Koh Phangan, Thailand.
We're 86% there & only need $1500 to get us over the line. If you can help us, we would really appreciate it!
This project uses drones to create a baseline survey of lost fishing gear & document effects of entanglement on marine species.
We are working with Core Sea & Koh Phangan Sea Guardians to develop a locally led method for ongoing monitoring for discarded fishing gear, using drones.
Thank you, Sol, Tania & Kat
Workshop Invite: Building Partnerships between Conservation Tech and the UK Space Sector
22 September 2022 3:50pm
5 December 2022 3:10pm
Hi Steph,
If it's not too late, I'm very interested in this workshop.
Best,
V
6 December 2022 5:52pm
Hey Vance! We hosted the workshop a few weeks ago, but we're doing follow up calls and future meetings. I'll loop you into the next call!
Steph
12 December 2022 12:03am
Hi Steph. Would be interested also.
WILDLABS: Connect With Your Network Here!
1 December 2022 11:04pm
Tech and Biodiversity Conference, London
15 November 2022 2:07pm
AmazoniaHack: An Open Hardware Hackathon for the Amazon Rainforest
11 November 2022 5:05pm
EarthRanger Names Club Arribada and MoveApps as 2022 Conservation Tech Award Winners

9 November 2022 2:26pm
WILDLABS Digest: 4 November 2022
4 November 2022 3:42pm
A new issue of our community digest just went out! Check it out to discover a big platform update, and a summary of all the latest content from across WILDLABS in one easy to scan place!
Earth Observation 101 - would you like an end of course Q&A?
3 November 2022 4:18pm
Tech to Track: Harnessing thepotential of spatial data & digital technologies to prioritise nature and climate action
28 October 2022 10:14am
Organisational Development Learning Hub
25 October 2022 10:36am
Within the open-access Learning Hub, you can find interactive e-learning courses and recordings of online training webinars; all are original and completely free to access. Includes Good Fund Management, Conflict Resolution, Organisational Governance, Risk Management, and more.
Webinar: Reconnecting people with nature through compelling animated stories
19 October 2022 5:30pm
Organisational Resilience Festival
18 October 2022 8:15am
Connecting the Dots: A discussion on Private and Public Partnership and driving impact for our world
10 October 2022 12:32pm
27 January 2023 3:47pm
I am looking forward to the SRI2023 conference ( link below )
If you're mostly busy getting your tech to work, it might be a bit out of your comfort zone.
However, if you're at the point of realizing that the local community, their neighbors, their ( local ) government, companies with an interest, and many other actors all have some bearing on the tech that you are setting up, and all may have an interest in the data that you are capturing ... then this conference may be a place to start.
This is the third SRI conference, and, frankly, I have been to none of the previous for practical reasons, so I don't know exactly what to expect. Perhaps it is too high level for me, but I am looking forward to it.