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!
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Hi JC, I'm looking for similar information for E.Africa (particularly Kenya). Not sure how much these overlap, but have found the following; SMART,... |
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Hi all, I'm curious, what to you was the most inspiring thing about the Congress? What was the best talk? Who had the... |
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Hello congress participants! It's been so great to meet all the WILDLABS members here at the congress, I think I've... |
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My pleasure! |
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Brilliant, that's so much for the link. I got wind of the scale of the magnitude of the problem, while researching a story on ports of call for invasive species. ... |
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Hi @StephODonnell and others, I'll be joining NOAA, Pew, Walton etc for a workshop on "Application of Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) Tools for Marine... |
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We're excited to share that the WILDLABS.NET community swept past our 1000 member milestone yesterday, with new member @virginieb... |
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The NT100 is a celebration of the 100 most inspiring social tech innovations from across the globe, selected by the Nominet Trust. Each... |
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Hi guys, My name is Amanda and i'm a casting producer with Intel's America's Greatest Makers currently airing on TBS... |
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The Guardian reports that Solar Impulse 2 has completed the first ever crossing of the Atlantic by a solar-powered aeroplane,... |
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Next Meetup: 11am Thursday, 26th May We're teaming up with Makespace for our next meetup, with three members coming... |
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Hello all, I just came upon a paper titled "Complementary benefits of tourism and hunting to communal conservancies in... |
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Bengal tiger cub dies of cold at Crimea zoo hit by power cuts.
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Rare friendship between a tiger and a goat!
4 December 2015 5:29pm
wildtech.mongabay.com is a great resource
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3 December 2015 2:19pm
Thanks for the link - yes, I agree Mongabay's WildTech areas is a great resource for anyone interested in keeping up to date with the latest conservation tech news. Sue Palminteri's article is facinating and is definitely worth a read. The video showing the daily movement of elephants is particularly interesting (see the screenshot below) - it was a case study Katherine Chou of Google.org spoke about in her Fuller Symposium address as well. That they're getting close to real time monitoring is very exciting - it would have been amazing to have that capacity in other projects I've been involved with.
The key take-aways you highlight match a lot of what came up in the Fuller Symposium and other discussions about HWC. The consensus from Wired in the Wild - Can technology save the planet? was that no, it cannot. It is simply a very useful tool that, when used appropriately, could have significant impacts in the challenges conservation is attempting to tackle. Numerous speakers drove home the point that technology is not and should not be the starting point; we need to be technology agnostic. We must start by understanding the challenge and then looking at what (if any) technology might help to address it given the circumstances.
The Elephants and Bees approach is a great example of why we need to start with challenge rather than the technology. Sometimes the best solution is the low tech approach. Nilanga Jayasinghe highlighed this in her thought piece about HWC - giving a similar example of work WWF is doing in Nepal:
'During a recent visit to Nepal, I visited rural villages where wild elephants often raid rice fields during harvest season. The communities had installed electric fences but this tool didn't always succeed on its own. Elephants are smart and persistent: they had learned to break the fence’s electric current, and then the fence itself, by using trees to push over the supporting stakes. To solve this problem, we worked with farmers to dig fish ponds in front of the fences as an additional obstacle. Adding an additional barrier not only made it harder for the elephants to get into the fields, it also gave the communities more time to respond and drive elephants away. This simple solution has not only reduced elephant raids, but has also improved local livelihoods from the sale of the fish grown in the ponds.'