Explore Conservation Ethics
In our recent panel episode of Tech Tutors, How do I use conservation tech ethically?, our presenters explored this important subject as they answered the following questions:
- Doug Clark: How do I use conservation tech ethically?
- Laure Joanny: How do I build on existing tools and procedures to use conservation tech ethically?
- Trishant Simlai: How does conservation tech cause harm?
- Koustubh Sharma: How do I manage ethical issues in the field?
Click each presenter's name to view the recording from their individual lecture portion of the panel.
Louis Cohen also created a conservation tech ethics beginner's guide for Tech Tutors participants, available for download here.
And in addition to the many engaging resources shared by participants during this episode, our presenters also provided several papers and other resources to help you explore the many aspects of conservation technology ethics:
- Research Paper (Doug Clark, Chris Sandbrook, Trishant Simlai): Principles for the socially responsible use of conservation monitoring technology and data
- Research Paper (Koustubh Sharma): Conservation and people: Towards an ethical code of conduct for the use of camera traps in wildlife research
- Keynote Presentation (Trishant Simlai): Conservation surveillance as a means for state repression? Psychological terror and the spectacles of fear through the use of drones in India
- The First Nations Principles of OCAP
- Doug Clark: Engaging Northern expertise strengthens ecological science
- Research Paper (Chris Sandbrook): The social implications of using drones for biodiversity conservation
If you're interested in discussing the ethics of conservation technology, you can join the WILDLABS forum dedicated to ethics, and connect with these panelists in this episode's Tech Tutors thread!
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Ethics of Conservation Tech, Camera Traps | 2 years 10 months ago | |
Hi Kate- it should be out imminently and we'll announce it here when it is. Meantime I'll email you a copy. cheers, Doug. |
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Hi Wildlabbers, After a holiday break, Tech Tutors Season 2 continues with our forth episode, featuring Doug Clark, Joseph... |
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this paper is a good place to start: Hodgson, J. C., & Koh, L. P. (2016). Best practice for minimising unmanned aerial vehicle disturbance to wildlife in biological field... |
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Hello all. I've been thinking lately about the importance of open source technology in creating advancements in the conservation... |
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Thanks for contributing these thoughts and resources, Ken. Great to see you in the WILDLABS.NET community! |
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The Centre for Global Equality is holding a seminar and discussion about drones and conservation at 12noon GMT on Nov 25th, 2015. The... |
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Our team was just talking about this as well. We work in bioacoustics, so not as complex as the camera trap strategies described in the publication.
Strategy we landed on was to automatically round geo coordinates to map an approx location for species presence.
We welcome thoughts/opinions/ideas on this important topic for our sensitive species in Nepal, Bolivia, and US!
14 September 2021 10:50am
Fwiw, GBIF published guidance on this topic late last year:
Chapman AD (2020) Current Best Practices for Generalizing Sensitive Species Occurrence Data. Copenhagen: GBIF Secretariat. https://doi.org/10.15468/doc-5jp4-5g10.
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26 July 2021 12:00am
Seeking feedback: draft principles for responsible use of conservation surveillance technology
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25 November 2020 5:08pm
Hi Kate, Apologies for the delay responding. We submitted this work to Conservation Science and Practice on July 12 and we are currently working on the revisions. We hope it will be out soon. Stay well!
17 February 2021 11:59pm
Hi Doug - What's the status of this paper? I have anothe rproject looking at conservation AI principles and would like to point ot this paper, if it's out. - Kate
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Hi Kate- it should be out imminently and we'll announce it here when it is. Meantime I'll email you a copy. cheers, Doug.
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this paper is a good place to start: Hodgson, J. C., & Koh, L. P. (2016). Best practice for minimising unmanned aerial vehicle disturbance to wildlife in biological field research. Current Biology, 26(10), R404-R405.
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Thanks for contributing these thoughts and resources, Ken. Great to see you in the WILDLABS.NET community!
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If you haven't read them, these 2 papers offer propose decision-making frameworks for sensitive animal occurrence data:
Tulloch AIT, Auerbach N, Avery-Gomm S, Bayraktarov E, Butt N, Dickman CR, Ehmke G, Fisher DO, Grantham H, Holden MH, et al. 2018. A decision tree for assessing the risks and benefits of publishing biodiversity data. Nature Ecol. Evol. 2: 1209-1217. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0608-1
Lennox RJ, Harcourt R, Bennett JR, Davies A, Ford AT, Frey RM, Hayward MW, Hussey NE, Iverson SJ, Kays R. 2020. A novel framework to protect animal data in a world of ecosurveillance. BioScience 70(6): 468–476. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa035
The Research Data Alliance has 2 relevant interest groups:
Sensitive Data IG: This is just getting started.
Data Policy Standardization and Implementation IG: For those publishing results, this group is working on advising more consistent data-access policies. In the paper below resulting from this group's work, they give some general suggestions for defining exceptions to open data policies that include sensitive species data:
Hrynaszkiewicz I, Simons N, Hussain A, Grant R, Goudie S. 2020. Developing a research data policy framework for all journals and publishers. Data Science Journal 19(1): 5. http://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2020-005
If others know of relevant resources please share!