Software and mobile applications are equally as important to conservation technology as the hardware used in the field. Increasingly developed specifically for #tech4wildlife needs, there are mobile apps and software options designed to help with protected area management, wildlife crime reporting, and anti-poaching patrol planning, data analysis, community science, data visualization and GIS mapping, outreach and engagement, and even conservation storytelling.
Likewise, mobile games have opened up new avenues for engaging the public in conservation efforts, allowing for immersive storytelling and interactive experiences. By combining cutting-edge technology and important conservation information with a media form already familiar to the public, conservationists are finding exciting ways to make audiences feel personally invested in critical species and habitats.
Whether you're looking for software and mobile app developers to help you with your own conservation tech needs, you have questions about development, you're looking for resources, or you'd like to share your own app, software, or gaming tools, this is the group for you!
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Team Leader for "Computer Vision and Machine Learning" at University of Jena (Germany) working on algorithmic solutions for biodiversity monitoring tasks
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FileMaker Database developer with a passion for nature.
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Application of radio astronomy techniques to conservation research, particularly in acoustics.
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World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)
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Software developer looking for ways to contribute to animal conservation
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Octophin Digital
Director at Octophin Digital building things for wildlife conservation.
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Postgraduate Biology student interested in bioacoustics, conservation biology and biodiversity
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Developer of the Android app DC Dolphin Communicator, and others
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American Museum of Natural History
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I am currently a student studying Wildlife and Ecotourism Management in University of Ìbàdàn, Nigeria, I'm a front-end developer. I am interested in conservation technology
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| Hi Jim,Not my area of expertise, but have you considered FTP with a web based client?Two options I found quickly are Net2FTP (which can be installed on your own server) and... |
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Citizen Science, Software and Mobile Apps | 1 hour 12 minutes ago | |
| I only really know about the audio side of things, not sure about incorporating video too. Raven may be something to look into? From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. There's a... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, Citizen Science, Data management and processing tools , Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps | 8 hours 5 minutes 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 | 9 hours 57 minutes ago | |
| Hi there Camilo, What an interesting project! If you are looking for a lower cost, but effective tools for acoustic monitoring you might want to look into two options: ... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, AI for Conservation, Data management and processing tools , Sensors, Software and Mobile Apps | 3 days 14 hours ago | |
| Thank you for the response! I'm not sure how to find that out. It says MP4. Is that what you're looking for? |
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Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools , Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps | 2 weeks 5 days ago | |
| Hi everyone, I'm new here! I'm a UX designer and researcher, and an animal lover. Excited to be part of Conservation Tech here at WildLabs... |
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AI for Conservation, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Software and Mobile Apps, Wildlife Crime | 2 months 3 weeks ago | |
| @gracieermi & I are happy to announce the latest update to the Conservation Tech Directory, bringing our total resources in the... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, AI for Conservation, Biologging, Camera Traps, Community Base, Data management and processing tools , Drones, eDNA & Genomics, Remote Sensing & GIS, Software and Mobile Apps | 2 months 4 weeks ago | |
| Hi all, I'm looking for cities that aggregate envrironmental data from open sources, and potentially their own monitoring sources,... |
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Software and Mobile Apps | 5 months ago | |
| Hi Dexter, In case you have not found your solution yet: I don't know of an off the shelf solution for what you need, but it seems to me that any more or less developed... |
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Software and Mobile Apps | 6 months ago | |
| Biologists without Borders has developed a free mobile app (i of the Elephant) that lets the public report where ivory is being sold. We send our reports of ivory being... |
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Software and Mobile Apps | 10 months 3 weeks ago | |
| Hi community, We're looking for a mobile lead engineer to help us protect some of the world's most endangered species... |
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Protected Area Management Tools, Software and Mobile Apps | 1 year ago | |
| Kobocollect could be adapted to and easy to use: https://www.kobotoolbox.org/ |
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Software Engineer, Yale Center for Biodiversity and Global Change
26 September 2022 at 01:19pm
Head of Technology - Delivery & Production, RSPB
23 September 2022 at 08:24pm
Software to aid acoustic sound files visualization/labelling + Software to syncronize video/acoustic sonograms
23 September 2022 at 01:01pm
Senior Conservation Technology Expert Position (Consultancy) with the Global Wildlife Program
22 September 2022 at 05:35pm
Data upload solution for a citizen science project?
21 September 2022 at 08:55pm
23 September 2022 at 10:47pm
Dropbox sounds like a good choice here, but probably only if you're willing to install the client-side software. The sync engine is fast and can handle the failure recovery and progress reporting requirements. You can upload via web browser without installing anything but this is much slower and less fault tolerant. If it fails part way through you will need to manually restart it.
Same goes for Google Drive and others.
25 September 2022 at 08:23pm
If you want to go down the Django route and have a nice system for managing things like this, the Wagtail CMS could be a nice fit as it'll do lots of this for you and leave you room to grow.
But this might fail on the restarting large multi-part upload part.
So might be best to write directly to an Amazon S3 buket and use their available libraries to manage the uploads (you'll probably want to use some cheap storage if handling a lot of files anyway). There's a guide linked below which covers everything in too much detail but I'm sure people have jumped off it to build stuff. I've used the Boto3 SDK to write to S3 a lot including lots of huge files but haven't accounted for drops in internet connection apart from just restarting the process when failed so can't be 100% confident on an answer there.
27 September 2022 at 07:08am
Hi Jim,
Not my area of expertise, but have you considered FTP with a web based client?
Two options I found quickly are Net2FTP (which can be installed on your own server) and MonstaFTP.
I know there are some security issues with using FTP but I see MonstaFTP can pass data securely from the web front end to the FTP server.
I don't think these options meet criteria 4, but I think you would need to install a client to get upload resuming to work reliably.
Best wishes,
Alistair
26 September 2022 at 11:59pm
I only really know about the audio side of things, not sure about incorporating video too.
Raven may be something to look into? From the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. There's a bunch of different license purchase options that are pretty affordable (especially compared to other proprietary software like BatSound or Sonobat, though the latter has a free viewer platform).
Arbimon may be something to look into as well, as it is completely free & has a nice online GUI. Though this is more aimed at passive acoustic monitoring-type stuff.