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 & Fauna & Flora
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WILDLABS & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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- @EllieW
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Purdue University
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Working with IPLCs and applying data/geospatial tools for a conservation/carbon forestry project in the Philippines 🌿
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Neuroscientist & engineer transitioning to conservation tech. I have experience working with large imaging datasets, pose estimation and positional tracking, and machine learning. Looking to get involved with GIS, remote sensing, and AI for conservation.
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Innovation Design Engineer studying at MSc + MA level. Previously a Robotics engineer with specialisms in remote sensing, control systems & electronics design. Transitioning to ecological contexts. I use bioinspiration to inform tech design, both product & infrastructure.
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Tech 4 Conservation
President, Tech 4 Conservation
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Botswana Predator Conservation Trust
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I am currently pursuing an MSc Conservation Biology at the University of Kent. My research interests are based around wildlife economies and how communities can be at the frontline to drive initiatives that promote sustainable livelihoods and safeguard wildlife habitats.
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Ecologist & Conservationist. Women for the Environment, Africa Fellow. National Geographic Explorer.
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In this article from Fran Baker, Fiona Riggall, and Ed Miller, you'll learn how tech companies like Arm can incorporate sustainability into their mindset for longterm success.
5 July 2023
Article
Say hello to the WILDLABS community on Instagram and help us highlight conservation tech work happening around the world!
1 July 2023
CBE is recruiting a full-time Senior Wind Engineering Manager to drive the development and implementation of their existing and future wind portfolio.
27 June 2023
The GSMA ClimateTech programme
21 June 2023
In this article from Jacinta Plucinski & Akiba of Freaklabs, they share advice on organising your thoughts around building short-term and long-term sustainability considerations into your conservation technology...
21 June 2023
Careers
Come work with us! WILDLABS and Fauna & Flora are seeking a Project Manager to join our team and help deliver projects under our cross-sector funding and events programmes. Accepting applications until Sunday, 9...
16 June 2023
Come work with us! WILDLABS and Fauna & Flora are seeking an intern to help develop the movement ecology content on the Inventory - our wiki-inspired database of conservation technology. Accepting applications until...
6 June 2023
Welcome to Sustained Effort, a collection of community thoughts on the future of sustainability in the conservation technology field.
31 May 2023
This May, AI for the Planet Alliance announced the Winners and Finalists for its 2022 call for solutions focused on advancing promising AI solutions that combat climate change and we think you should check them out!
25 May 2023
Careers
We are a team of ecologists and technologists who believe good business must be good for nature. We’re building an economy that puts nature and business in balance by incentivising the restoration of nature at scale.
16 May 2023
We are looking for an experienced Programme Development Manager to join our team and help us grow our organisation's impact. The ideal candidate will have a passion for wildlife conservation and technology, and a...
5 May 2023
The new GSMA ClimateTech report explores the role digital solutions can play in improving natural resource management, focusing particularly on the power dynamics of using such technologies among local communities. We’...
21 April 2023
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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 | 1 year 7 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 | 1 year 8 months ago | |
Thanks so much!! |
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Acoustics, 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 | 1 year 8 months 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 | 1 year 8 months 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 | 1 year 8 months ago | |
I have been waiting for journal club to come back!! 10000% down.I agree with @StephODonnell, would love it to come back!!! And now that variety hour is happening, that's more of... |
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Acoustics, Community Base | 1 year 8 months ago | |
Hello. I am a PhD candidate at Penn State University. I submitted a post to this group back in March and I am resubmitting... |
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Community Base, Data management and processing tools, Remote Sensing & GIS, Wildlife Crime | 1 year 9 months ago | |
Any results coming out of this survey that you would like to share? |
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Community Base, Emerging Tech | 1 year 10 months ago | |
During a volunteer project, I ran into some stupefying experiences with camera traps, one of those 'corner stones', it seems, of nature conservation research. Everybody who... |
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Community Base | 1 year 10 months ago | |
Hi all!Last week we introduced you to our first WILDBEAR Awardee, Alyssa Bohart. We hope you enjoyed learning more about Alyssa's work with... |
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Biologging, Community Base | 1 year 10 months ago | |
Hi all doing some spring cleaning. Just pay shipping.I have: -20 new Taoglas FXUB63 Ultra Wide Band Antenna 698-3000MHz we don't need. ... |
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Community Base | 1 year 10 months ago | |
100%! Also heard many asking about SMART Connect & Mobile, and their integration with other software.Thank you for your input :) |
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Community Base, East Africa Community | 1 year 10 months ago |
Opportunity: Graphic Designer
8 March 2022 12:00am
Survey on Economic Value of Ecological Data
27 January 2022 12:51am
Opportunity: Communications and Digital Media Coordinator
16 February 2022 12:00am
Introducing the WILDLABS On the Edge Fellows
10 February 2022 12:00am
Media stories highlight WILDLABS research & community
10 February 2022 12:00am
Media stories highlight WILDLABS research & community
9 February 2022 8:03pm
The WILDLABS Fellowships & Awards Programme
28 January 2022 3:58pm
WILDLABS Fellowships & Awards: Matchmaking between tech and conservation
28 January 2022 3:22pm
AI for Conservation Office Hours: 2021 Review
14 December 2021 12:00am
The State of Conservation Technology 2021
13 December 2021 12:00am
Digital Naturalism Conference Sri Lanka 2022
22 November 2021 2:53pm
3 December 2021 5:56pm
great to see a new DiNaCon!
can't make it there myself, but highly recommended.
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WILDLABS Fellowships
22 July 2021 12:23pm
22 July 2021 2:39pm
Congratulations, Steph.
This sounds like a great idea and a big step forward. Looking forward to hearing about all the projects. Also happy to help out if needed :)
Akiba
22 November 2021 2:52pm
Super cool! amazing thing to launch!
WILDLABS State of Conservation Tech Survey 2021
19 November 2021 12:00am
Protecting Communities & the Amazon: Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge open until Nov 17!
9 November 2021 4:13pm
Updated conservation tech directory site!
28 September 2021 3:14pm
11 October 2021 11:17am
Great did not know that this list exist
22 October 2021 8:06pm
Quick note that we've done another update last week, so the site now has 489 resources listed! The figshare link and PDF have also been updated.
23 October 2021 2:35am
Thanks Carly. It's such a useful resource :)
Training the Trainers
22 October 2021 5:04pm
Conservation grants for field vehicles
23 July 2020 3:14pm
14 October 2021 10:17am
Hi everyone,
Trying to revive this conversation. Has anyone any leads on car manufacturers, foundations, NGOs, etc who support buying (or repairing) vehicles for conservation?
Thanks,
Yvan
Workshop on tech use in Nature
13 October 2021 12:41pm
Hiring - Technologist in US
28 September 2021 5:23pm
Community Call: September 23rd
22 September 2021 9:54pm
WILDLABS Journal Club: DIY camera trap, optimising use of biologgers, Allen Coral Atlas
21 May 2021 8:19pm
19 June 2021 11:38am
oh shoot, how did I lose track of you on my list? Sorry - you should have an invite today.
19 June 2021 11:47am
Alright - everyone who has asked for an invite on any social platform *should* have a calendar invite in their email from me (it'll be from my @fauna-flora.org email). If I've somehow missed you, can you please shout?
Steph
16 September 2021 7:48am
Hey Stephanie, I remember this idea being kicked around and I indicated interest some time ago, but if I am not on the list you have going, I would love to passively follow, appreciating the timezones likely will be difficult for me to follow live from Australia.
Tech Tutors Capacity Building Episode: Call for Input
19 August 2021 8:37pm
23 August 2021 11:32am
Thanks for posting, Ellie!
Hi all, would love to have a chat with anyone who has experience or insight in this area (and possibly put together a perspectives piece based on this episode). Looking forward to hearing from you all!
Community Call: 12 August 2021
10 August 2021 6:17pm
IUCN Marseille
8 July 2021 8:48am
23 July 2021 5:04pm
Hi Oliver,
We are coming down, and I was just wondering... Seeing as as are no longer un the EU (very sad face) it might be a good idea for us to get cards and flyers printed by a local company rather than trying to bring them through customs ourselves.
Do you know of any local helpful printing companies?
See you there!
Cris.
30 July 2021 1:57pm
Will be there virtually! Not in the EU so unfortunately wouldn't be able to go with COVID restrictions, but looking forward to connecting with folks online!
And a plug that WILDLABS has a session :) - https://www.iucncongress2020.org/programme/official-programme/session-43507 ("WILDLABS: Broadening participation in conservation technology innovation and application")
Journal Club tomorrow (July 30, 10:30am EST) - review paper discussion
29 July 2021 5:21pm
29 July 2021 9:33pm
Hi. I can give a brief blurb on the state of wireless sensor networks if you want. I don't think it will be a very deep dive due to time limitations, but can discuss how we're seeing it in terms of field deployment of wireless sensor networks.
Akiba
Hack4Nature : tech for biodiversity
25 January 2021 10:11am
29 January 2021 8:49pm
Is this available for participants outside of France? I'd love to be involved!
8 July 2021 8:45am
Yep Its sill open you can join Slack hack4nature.slack.com ?
8 July 2021 8:46am
Yep Its sill open you can join Slack
https://join.slack.com/t/hack4nature/shared_invite/zt-t1rw4ee8-3_nFMzc~4zyyrkT~YucE8w ?
Earth Defenders Toolkit Global Launch
8 July 2021 5:54am
Nominations for Pathfinder Award for innovations in nature conservation - due by 15 July
7 July 2021 4:30pm
WILDLABS Journal Club: Project Rattlecam, whaleshark eDNA & the Problem with innovation challenges
2 July 2021 5:10pm
2 July 2021 5:10pm
Read more:
- The problem with innovation challenges
- Project Rattlecam. Read more about Project Rattlecam founder Emily Taylor’s work using conservation tech with snakes on WILDLABS here.
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Individual haplotyping of whale sharks from seawater environmental DNA (June 2021)
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eDNA sampled from stream networks correlates with camera trap detection rates of terrestrial mammals
Carly's in case you missed it:
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New Species on WildMe: new wildbooks (Grouper Spotter, Salamander Wildbook), ML support now for bobcats, clouded leopards, ocelots, great white sharks, Indo-pacific humpback whales, bottlenose dolphins
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SeaBee: establish drone-based infrastructure for scientific research in Norway (pilot training, data storage, ML algorithms, specs/data standards, etc.)
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Reckoning with elitism & racism in conservation: Mongabay article, interview with Colleen Begg, South African conservationist
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Underwater AI detection: created by Jake Easterling of Scubotics, upload videos and ID the fish you saw!
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Evidensia.eco: From WWF, Rainforest Alliance & iseal; effort to make credible evidence about impacts & effectiveness of market-based sustainability approaches accessible to inform policy & practice
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CarbonPlan: non-profit that analyzes climate solutions, builds open tools/resources for evaluation & deployment of them, improving transparency & scientific integrity of carbon remocal
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DevelopmentSeed: engineering & product company accelerating application of accessible geospatial analysis (Cloud Geo), planetary AI, etc. to make evidence-based decisions that benefit the planet
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Remotely monitoring honeybees: Best Bees Company installs hives on commercial and residential properties (pays property owners) & use software system to monitor and record colony health, data shared with researchers
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GoodAI community: “empowering companies that use AI to help deliver on SDG’s”; online discussion boards, company directory, job board, responsible AI resources
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Highest resolution global map released: from Impact Observatory, Esri & Microsoft AI for Earth; using Sentinel-2 imagery at 10-m resolution & image segmentation CNN (UNet)
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Brazil’s wildlife forensics initiative: Amazonas state using isotope ratio mass spec to detect geographic origin of animals (captive-bred vs wild-caught, and where in the wild), products (timber, gold, etc.)
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ConservationAI: UK ngo detecting & classifying animals, evidence of illegal activity from pictures and thermal images collected by camera traps, drones (can use 3/4G comm’s for real-time monitoring); upload data to site, models (TensorFlow automatically run them and give you analytics dashboard
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New Analytics Lab from Conservation Science Partners (US non-profit): develop & prototype software, computational environments & data products to monitor land use, analyze ecosystems, develop climate change projections, etc.
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eBioAtlas: from NatureMetrics & IUCN; creating global atlas of life for Earth’s rivers & wetlands using eDNA; interfaces with IUCN RedList & GBIF; freely available
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Global Environmental Crime Tracker: from the Environmental Investigation Agency; central public database of illegal wildlife & timber activity (pulls from publicly available info, media coverage); currently for Asia, Africa & Europe
Tech Tutors 3 is Coming: Call for topics & presenters!
23 June 2021 11:22am
24 June 2021 2:08am
Oh, so excited to hear more about what's been going on. Looking forward to watching Tech Tutors 3 also. There's been something missing in my late evenings :)
24 June 2021 3:33am
A suggestion for something I repeatedly get asked:
- How do I create maps of land cover change for my area and assess accuracy, using free software and limited (or no) coding skills?
Any takers?? I keep meaning to take a look at the latest plugins in QGIS, for example, but haven't got around to it...
Ollie
2 July 2021 10:10am
Great suggestion Ollie, it gave us an excuse to ask NASA to teach a tutorial.. We are so excited about this new season, we'll be sharing the first part of the lineup next week, so stay tuned.
Extra suggestions still welcome!
23 February 2022 4:27pm
Just re-upping this in hopes that I can get some more responses if it gets to the top of people's feeds.