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 of Icoteq Ltd, an electronics and software design consultancy developing wireless products and solutions to organisations working in the conservation, wildlife monitoring and anti-poaching sectors. Developers of the TagRanger® novel wildlife tracking products.
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DrivenData
Lead Data Scientist and developer of zamba, a tool for automatic species classification from camera traps
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Zoologist, Ecologist, Conservation Biologist
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Machine Learning Researcher & Nature Photographer. Building conservation tech for biodiversity monitoring at Wildlife Insights.
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San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
Research Coordinator II for the Conservation Technology Lab at SDZWA
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PhD Candidate at University College London. Research and develop wireless sensor networks for biodiversity monitoring. Currently working on a software package for AI bioacoustics classifiers on edge device.
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Saint Louis Zoo
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Earthmover
I'm the chief of staff at Earthmover, a software company making it easier to work with earth system data
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PhD Student | Cornell University | Smithsonian Institution; My focus is in computational ecology within fishery acoustics
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Sea Mammal Research Unit Univ' St Andrews
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Hi Everyone, I am a technology professional with years of experience managing large scale software development projects. I... |
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Hi everyone, I'm Marian and I work for Realchangers. We are a startup focused on people, who want to connect their... |
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Hello Sean I just had another thought: industrial machine vision systems come with all sorts of image inspection tools including such things as "edge detection". I... |
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Our friends over at rOpenSci are having a community call next week that members of this group might be interested in joining. rOpenSci... |
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Hi Ross, We are developing a web-based platform with multiple tools to analyse biodiversity quality, habitat assessement management and other apps. We need some help thinking... |
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Love it! Covers so many of my interests - conservation, beekeeping and fiddling with Arduinos - would love to know more about the project. |
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Hey Gautum, Looks like the interview went really well! If people weren't able to make it, Gautam's interview along iwth others in the series are all available... |
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We're looking for an experienced (web) developer to join our team at Octophin Digital in London. We've worked behind the scenes... |
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Hi Tobias!
This sounds great and I am looking forward to trying it out after returning from field work!
Very cool with the Vectronic Activity data! I am looking forward to check How we can use that!
Cheers,
Lars