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.
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WILDLABS Associate Specialist based in Southern California
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Leveraging big data to solve hard, open ended and socially impactful problems| Ex - Palantir
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Computer engineer, Drone Pilot, Seed researcher
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Marine mammal ecologist and online technical trainer
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Technology Coordinator at Wildlife Protection Solutions
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Argos satellite system manager for North America
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Passionate and curious about nature and its diversity, I seek to learn more about conservation, new technologies, and the unknown and infinite environmental world.
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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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I am a conservation enthusiast who aims at learning more about conservation and its technology. My research interests lie in wildlife conservation in anthropogenic landscapes.
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Developing AI and IoT for wildlife
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Careers
Come work with us! WILDLABS and WWF are seeking a graduate intern to support our conservation technology research programme by investigating trends, gaps, and opportunities for advancement across the sector. Accepting...
14 March 2023
Careers
Come work with us! WILDLABS and WWF are seeking an undergraduate intern to help us grow our signature #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge event. Accepting applications now!
14 March 2023
Careers
Operations Lead (Remote)
Cameron Frayling
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.
27 February 2023
Article
The Variety Hour: 2023 Lineup
Stephanie O'Donnell
You’re invited to the WILDLABS Variety Hour, our monthly community event connecting you to the exciting projects, research, and ideas that are happening in conservation tech right now. Brought to you with the support of...
15 February 2023
Article
Apply Now: AI for Conservation Office Hours
WILDLABS Team
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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Join us for Tech Tutors: East Africa
WILDLABS Team
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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WILDLABS: Connect With Your Network Here!
Ellie Warren
How can you connect with the #tech4wildlife community outside of social media? WILDLABS has everything you need!
1 December 2022
Article
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
Funding
Roddenberry Foundation’s Catalyst Fund
Roddenberry Foundation
Apply now for $2,500–$15,000 USD grants for early-stage ideas or projects that address global challenges.
4 October 2022
Funding
NSF Activate Fellowship
Carly Batist
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
Article
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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Community Base | 2 days 8 hours ago | |
| Hi All,I an recent joiner to WILDLABS and really enjoyed the Variety Hour last month and I am looking forward to finding out more about all the cool work people do here.What kind... |
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Community Base | 1 week 1 day ago | |
| Hi Carly, many thanks for getting back to me and apologies for the slow reply. The internet has been down here for the last week. We do not currently do any acoustic monitoring... |
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Community Base | 1 week 4 days ago | |
| I'm obviously quite biased, but always looking for more acoustic monitoring stuff! ;) I think all conferences nowadays should be hybrid. We obviously have the capacity to do... |
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Community Base | 3 weeks 4 days ago | |
| The only one I have as a definite so far is the European Vulture Conference, but I'm hoping to find time to go to more! |
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Community Base | 1 month 1 week 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 | 2 months 1 week 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, Data management and processing tools , Early Career, Emerging Tech | 2 months 3 weeks 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 | 3 months 2 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 | 4 months 3 weeks 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 | 5 months 2 weeks ago | |
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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 | 5 months 4 weeks ago |
Black Mammalogists Week - Get Involved!
14 April 2022 11:50pm
Technical Difficulties Community Discussion
13 October 2021 6:35pm
20 January 2022 1:55am
Thanks Jared,
That is useful information. I can see that it might be temperature differential condensation causing the problem as the board is on the end of the housing (in the cap). I'll try coating the exposed, non-moving parts of the board. The card contacts and the microphone will still need to be uncoated though.
The draining case was one option I considered but there is no guarentee that the case orientation will remain suitable.
20 January 2022 2:03am
I had considered a heat shrink case but the heat shrink I tried was insufficiently abrasion resistant for a koala. Maybe I should have tried using this with a resin coating or a layer of Teflon tape.
The PLA is remarkably abrasion resistant.
8 April 2022 3:21am
An update on my audio cases.
I tried changing a few things.
1. Changed battery brand and thus the age of the batteries I was being supplied. The Tadiran cells being supplied to me were made in 2014! Now in theory that should not matter with these cells. They have extreme shelf lives. But I ordered some Chinese Fanso cells and these were made just last year.
2. I have started using teflon adhesive tape to cover the audio 'vent' and around the neck side of the casing to increase the slip of the case and help keep the collar the right way up (GPS up, audio device down). The teflon tape does not have much pliability so I'm limited to the surfaces it can be fitted to. It does not stick to itself so I can't even wrap it in multiple layers but it does bond to PLA and the reflective tape. The teflon tape is more puncture resistant and it is naturally water dispersing. It does have different audio qualities though with a bit of a drum like reverb.
I have just retrieved a collar deployed 10 weeks ago using these two modifications. During this period the device has been exposed to 920 mm of rainfall, more than the average annual rainfall of the study site and the highest monthly total ever recorded in this part of Australia, so if the case was ever going to leak, this was going to do it! There is no evidence of water incursion in the case. There is no corrosion on the board or the battery and the recording device worked.
Of course the Russian assembled audio devices are currently off limits to me so I'm limited to the stock I currently have. If anyone is aware of an alternative board that I might use, I would love to hear about it. My requirements are: low power requirement (<2 mA), capacity to store 256 gb, small size (these ones are thumbnail sized), ability to record low frequencies (at least as low as 20 Hz). The µMoth is about four times the size and uses at least three times as much power. I have no need for the kind of processing power that the µMoth offers. I have found some chinese voice recorders that offer reasonably low power drain and small size but they have some kind of low frequency (high pass) filters built in which makes them of limited use for my project. If anyone has some suggestions I would love to hear them.
Opportunity: Executive Manager, Conservation Leadership Programme
Fauna & Flora International
7 April 2022 12:00am
Friday check in - what have you been working on this week?
11 March 2022 12:59pm
25 March 2022 2:37pm
Hi Stef (and others), I've been using old Natural resource maps from the 1970's to look at the habitats and resources that are identified within protected areas, most of which we haven't been able to survey in the future to help in a management planning workshop so that we can better understand what assessments need to be done in these areas for effective management of the resources.
some of the data isn't digitized as yet,
25 March 2022 4:12pm
Heya @LindyClydeKnowles - so nice to see you! This is super interesting, thanks for sharing :)
Some cool stuff happening over on twitter too:
Got back from deploying some AudioMoths & Swifts in SE Madagascar! Passive acoustic monitoring for lemurs. Also found out I got accepted to the @cv4ecology summer school! pic.twitter.com/qIlVE3hsqg
— Carly Batist (@Carly_Batist) March 12, 2022
Heard that I’ve been awarded £5k for acoustic recorder purchase!
— Carlos Abrahams (@abr_eco) March 11, 2022
Been reviewing data from some recorders I put out in vineyards last year. Some fun stuff going on! pic.twitter.com/OM7NOM3v7k
— David Savage (@david_t_savage) March 11, 2022
@LiamSeaDickson I bet you did something exciting this week
— Stuart Negus (@Stu_707) March 11, 2022
I had the opportunity to present my research using #drones4good to MPs at the Houses of Parliament, and talk about the importance of conserving our marine environment!
I was a finalist in the #STEMforBRITAIN competition - it was an incredible experience! pic.twitter.com/W8cdW3IqCg
— Liam C Dickson (@LiamSeaDickson) March 11, 2022
25 March 2022 4:21pm
Hello!
I have been watching GPS collars carefully as their are nearing their time of drop-off. We are testing burst fixes on these last few weeks of their 2.5 year deployment. So I am keeping a close eye on the battery levels so they will not die before beeing dropped off.
Also, I have been cooperating with Tobias from the Firetail acceleration and tracking visualization software to get support of ACC data from our Vectronic Vertex Plus collars.
Finally I have testing IP security cameras to see if they could be suitable to monitor our arctic fox dens in Greenland.
GOSH Regional Events Funding - Second Round Now Open!
14 March 2022 11:00am
WILDLABS Journal Club: Global Priority Mapping, AI for Good, and Conservation Messaging
10 September 2021 7:46pm
25 February 2022 9:52am
Hi Helga,
We've currently paused our Journal Club sessions while we're in the final stages of testing and launching our new community platform. We'll definitely be brining it back soon - maybe April? I'll let you know how you can join once it's back up and running!
Steph
11 March 2022 5:15pm
Once you're up and running please add me to the list!
13 March 2022 3:06pm
Thanks. What's the link to the paper about conservation messaging?
New Conservation Tech Directory Update!
Opportunity: Graphic Designer
FieldKit
8 March 2022 12:00am
Survey on Economic Value of Ecological Data
27 January 2022 12:51am
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.
Opportunity: Communications and Digital Media Coordinator
Ventana Wildlife Society
16 February 2022 12:00am
Introducing the WILDLABS On the Edge Fellows
WILDLABS Team
10 February 2022 12:00am
Media stories highlight WILDLABS research & community
WILDLABS Team
10 February 2022 12:00am
Media stories highlight WILDLABS research & community
9 February 2022 8:03pm
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 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!
Updated conservation tech directory site!
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
15 April 2022 7:35pm
Hi all! My name is Gabi Fleury and I'm part of the Black Mammalogists Week organizing committee and will be collaborating with WILDLABS on setting up this May 3rd Hackathon.
Really excited to have people involved in this event and am available to ask any questions here on the forum, or through a DM on Twitter at @fleurygs or through my email [email protected] The Google Form is a great place to start to get you signed up and interacting on our Slack platform and forming teams, so please do fill it out if interested!
As was mentioned, we also would love to start gathering subject area experts, so if you're an expert in tech and you'd like to volunteer your expertise to advise this event's participants, please do drop me a line!