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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Director at Octophin Digital building things for wildlife conservation.
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University of Bristol , University of Auckland & La Trobe University
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A Wildlife Biologist interested in Environment Assessment and Restoration, In-situ and Ex-situ strategies, Technologies used in Conservation and Illegal Wildlife Trade.
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Wildlife distributions and the effects that human activity has on populations. Spatial ecology of Amazonian mammals through audio and camera surveys. Hunter and gun tracking in Peru. Bats in suburban and agricultural landscapes in the UK
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Student at Aberystwyth University. Bug Fanatic🪲. Worked at Octophin Digital for my industrial year placement 🐙.
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In the context of the AI for Earth call proposal by Microsoft and National Geographic (1), I am looking for a front-end developer wishing... |
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Hi Rosemary, Do you know this website that gathers grants and resources for sustainability? https://www2.fundsforngos.org/category/environment-conservation-climate-... |
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Hi Damian, You could use a SMS gateway, which acts as a link between two mobile devices in order to send SMSes. As Drue stated out Whatsapp or other... |
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Thanks Richard. Welcome to the (silent) community. We actually already wrote the article, but thanks for the reminder that I should post a link!!! https://... |
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Hi @djscrazyhorse I've been looking at a similar thing. I actually decided against it in the end, and instead to take a tack of developing a solution for a particular... |
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Dear BPdorsey, Collector will support custom basemaps ? It wasn't an option a few months ago.
3 February 2017 1:59pm
Thanks for the comments so far everyone
We have used custom basemaps in Collector. You need to publish a tile layer to ArcGIS Online,( I'm not sure if an organisational account is needed for this.)add it to your map and then you can download that tile layer to your device
https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/share-maps/publish-tiles.htm
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15 November 2016 7:54pm
Hi Judit,
She sounds like a great resource. I will be sure to reach out.
Thank you,
Megan
16 November 2016 3:26pm
Hi Megan,
It sounds very interesting the app you are developing. I am working for a smaller nature conservation Fund and am trying a partnership with a platform that is also in development and aimed at connecting people and organizations, facilitate update and knowledge sharing and increasing the visibility and donor pool of the organisations. As I said it's still in development but you can take a look if you like www.pifworld.com/eng. I am however also very curious to get to know other (potential) tools that work similar.
It would be great to chat one time to get better acquainted, maybe you can send me your contact details by PM if you'd like to follow up?
Best, Anne Alexandre
17 November 2016 5:08am
Hi Anne,
Thanks for reaching out and sharing what you are working on. I will PM you now.
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Thanks Alasdair for signing up! Happy to welcome you as one of our test users. The link will follow in a bit, meanwhile feel free to join our Facebook Play Group to get weekly updates on our process and backstories of the amazing animals we're allowed to work with: https://www.facebook.com/groups/IoEPlay/
Corinna
16 November 2016 2:22pm
Im sorry I missed this event - I hope there will be others like it...
16 November 2016 2:32pm
Hi Karina,
There most definitely will be more events like this one. We are thinking of holding another gaming for conservation meetup in early 2017, potentially in London. Would that be of interest?
Hmm. having looked up where Wentworth institute of Technology is - looks like you're actually based in the USA Cambridge. Do you ever make it over to the UK? Otherwise, maybe we could look into organising something more local to you..
Steph
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15 November 2016 7:09pm
Thanks Karin! Very interesting app. I will ask for permission to review it in my website.
Best
Judit
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9 November 2016 11:54am
Hi Katzyna, we have an app called Instant Wild where you can see camera trap images coming in and help identify what is in them - you can take a look/find out more at http://www.edgeofexistence.org/instantwild
Chloe
15 November 2016 4:47pm
Hi Katzyna,
Not an app, but United for Wildlife are releasing a new free online course on the illegal wildlife trade on the 17th that has Vietnamese subtitles and transcripts available. The website with the course is here: http://learn.unitedforwildlife.org/ but the new course won't be live until the 17th. I am happy to send you some further information on this if you would like?
Just let me know!
15 November 2016 6:32pm
Hi katzyna,
Of those I know, there are none that meets the two criteria that interest you. For example, Wildscan allows you to report illegal wildlife trafficking in Asia, but I don't consider it as kid friendly. Maybe WildSense, to save tigers, or even the app of WWF are more suitable. Also you can take a look to Virry, from UK, or QuestaGame, from Australia.
Best,
Judit
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28 December 2015 7:09pm
Hi Steph,
Thanks for your message. I would be delighted to answer your question about Wildsense.
You are correct that our aim is to do a lot more than raise awareness and engange citizens with our Wildsense Tigers game.
We are using images from a range of image sharing websites that have been uploaded by people online and publicly shared. Each photograph contains valuable information that often includes the time and location that the photograph is taken. If we can understand when a photo was taken, where it was taken, and the individual animal in the photograph, then we can start to build up a picture of the movement of individuals. We are benefiting from people power from the users that are both indirectly uploading photographs online and also directly interacting with our Wildsense game. We are combining this with computing power with our data analysis, computer vision and machine learning software.
We are doing this experiment on a large scale and we believe that "the wisdom of the crowd" will enable us to gather and analyse enough information so that we can build an accurate picture. We started with wild tigers and our plan is to create a platform that can be used for other species as well. We are working on other animals already behind the scenes.
I hope that answers your question.
Best wishes,
Aaron Mason
11 January 2016 1:29pm
Hi Aaron,
It's a great concept of using gaming for the benefit of conservation, but I do have one big question about Wildsense and tigers. Since poaching is one of the main threats to the 3,000 or so remaining wildl tigers, there are great risks involved with publicizing the location and timing of any tiger sightings.
Furthermore, this approach can probably only work for Bengal tigers, since other tiger species, such as Sumatran and Malayan, are very rarely sighted, even by the most dedicated conservationists ( or poachers), as their jungle habitat is so dense. For Bengal Tigers, there are already ventures for online monitoring and identificaton, such as Tigernation.org.
Good luck with your project. Barbara from BiodiversityBusiness.
11 January 2016 6:33pm
Hi Barbara,
You are right in that cyberpoaching is becoming an increasing risk. I have seen various cases where information posted on social media has provided too much information and then ended up in the wrong hands (e.g. http://www.army.mil/article/75165/Geotagging_poses_security_risks/).
We need to be careful about the accuracy of information that is disclosed. Providing an approximate time and location seems to be the most popular adopted approach.
Hacking is another issue. For example, I have seen research demonstrating the potential to gain unauthrised access to GPS collar data.
Our main focus has been the Bengal Tiger but we want to see how much we can learn about other tigers as well. Our end goal is to support a range of animal species.
P.S. I am pleased that you are aware of http://www.tigernation.org - I co-founded it :)
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I am finding ArcGIS Collector very usefull. I can say, as an dedicated R coder, some things are worth paying money for and Collector is one of the. I have used it to implement several monitoring and data collection projects. I particularly like the assurance that data will not be lost on the device and the ability to cache base maps.