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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Capreolus e.U.
wildlife biologist with capreolus.at
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FileMaker developer with a passion for nature and an interest in funding and finance
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Paul Edonga is from the Indigenous Pastoralist Tribes of Northern Kenya. A seasoned Leader in indigenous-led conservation of Endangered Beisa Oryx, African Small Antelopes their habitats & Dryland Forests. He's the founder of Save Beisa Oryx Community Resilience Trust-SBOC
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Building Landscape, land conservation software. Loves talking geospatial tech, SaaS product development, and land protection.
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Deputy Technology Manager
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Grad Student, UW-Stout, Beaver habitat biodiversity research, process based restoration
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An Environmental sciences and Management graduate from SUA, passionate and eager to drive change to the Environment, making World a better place for present and future generations.
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WILDLABS & Fauna & Flora
Hi! I am Adrien, a dedicated French ornithologist and engineer committed to biodiversity conservation. I joined the WILDLABS team as a project manager in October 2023!
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Software Engineer interested in Conservation Tech
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Science Outreach Lead-Rainforest Connection (RFCx) & Arbimon; Ecoacoustics, biodiversity monitoring, primates, lemurs
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The open-source program Audacity can show the spectrograms and histograms and has quite a lot of other useful features, e.g. playing ultrasound calls slower, so it can be heard by... |
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Acoustics, Citizen Science, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps | 1 year 7 months ago | |
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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 | |
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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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Data management and processing tools, Sensors, Software and Mobile Apps | 1 year 8 months 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 | 1 year 11 months 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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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Biologging, Camera Traps, Community Base, Data management and processing tools, Drones, eDNA & Genomics, Remote Sensing & GIS, Software and Mobile Apps | 1 year 11 months 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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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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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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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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Kobocollect could be adapted to and easy to use: https://www.kobotoolbox.org/ |
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I believe Monica Harris is the SMART partnership program manager - https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicabarcellosharris/. |
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The depth of institutional support they have put together is impressive. I'm forwarding them to a student dev I know and will definitely keep them in mind to recommend to NGOs... |
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Hi Cortney!
I'm Carly, the Science Outreach Lead at Arbimon :)
I wanted to just point out that we have support docs and help pages at help.arbimon.org and also a link to contact us directly for help!
Regarding the error you're getting with the upload, it's probably easiest to switch over to email so I can get more information on the project and look into it on the backend. I would also recommend using the Uploader App rather than the web uploader, if you're not already.
But your idea is correct, we have many users who import renamed Xeno-Canto files to Arbimon to use as templates!
What's your email? We can continue the convo to get you set up!
23 May 2024 10:27pm
Thanks Carly! I had reviewed some of the help files, but clearly not the right ones!
My email is [email protected]
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Congratulations, very exciting! Keep us updated!
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This is so cool @Mauricio_Akmentins - congrats and look forward to seeing your project evolve!
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Congratulations! My first hydromoth was just arrived yesterday and so excited! Looking forward for the update from your project!!!
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Hi Robin this is a great idea! Have been thinking about approaching the community for quiz questions. Will reach out to Xavier to ask if we can use it or if he wishes to run it on next Wednesdays VH
22 April 2024 11:27am
Thanks, and that's a match!
All these pictures are from a lab experiment and formated with AmphIdent. We took weekly belly pictures of several larvae. The aim of this google form is to validate (by comparing answers with the lab reference image base) picture-matching by human is reliable although the change of pattern can be verry quick at this life stage.
If validated there will be the need to improve existing pattern-matching solutions for in situ observations of larvae, for instance with ML and/or Human Learning (thanks Zooniverse)...
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Happy to explain for sure. By Timelapse I mean images taken every 15 minutes, and sometimes the same seals (anywhere from 1 to 70 individuals) were in the image for many consecutive images.
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Got it. We should definitely be able to handle those images. That said, if you're just looking for counts, then I'd recommend running Megadetector which is an object detection model and outputs a bounding box around each animal.
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Hi, this is pretty interesting to me. I plan to fly a drone over wild areas and look for invasive species incursions. So feral hogs are especially bad, but in the Everglades there is a big invasion of huge snakes. In various areas there are big herds of wild horses that will eat themselves out of habitat also, just to name a few examples. Actually the data would probably be useful in looking for invasive weeds, that is not my focus but the government of Canada is thinking about it.
Does your research focus on photos, or can you analyze LIDAR? I don't really know what emitters are available to fly over an area, or which beam type would be best for each animal type. I know that some drones carry a LIDAR besides a camera for example. Maybe a thermal camera would be best to fly at night.
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Thank you for your response Akiba. I will have a look. 👏🏻
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I would look into the TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-Related Disclosures), Finance for Biodiversity, Accounting for Nature, etc. which are all focusing on how to incorporate nature risk into corporate reporting and sustainability frameworks!
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Thank you Carly, I will definitely take a look.
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