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The software and apps used and built by the conservation tech community are as varied as the species and habitats we work to protect. From fighting wildlife crime to collecting and analyzing data to engaging the general public with unique storytelling, apps, software, and mobile games are playing an increasingly large role in our work. Whether you're already well-versed in the world of software, or you're a hardware expert looking for guidance from the other side of the conservation tech field, this group will have interesting discussions, resources, and ideas to offer.

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Research Associate

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is seeking a new Research Associate to join their Conservation Technology Lab team.

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Firetail - Tutorial Series 22.3 - An introduction to Firetail - Update 2022

Glad to announce I just replaced the Firetail introductory tutorial with a 2022 revision centered around Firetail 9:

- general concepts
- Movebank data handling
- Map Viewport
- Studies handling
- Annotation overview
- AI-based segmentation overview (FireSOM)

and quite a bit more to get you an idea what is possible with the new version.

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Service Designer

Love design, passionate about conversation? Want to make sure that  technologies that are being developed actually meet the needs of the people who use them? Come and work for us! 

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Hello there

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! Feel free to reach out to me for...

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ICT Assistant

Fauna & Flora
FFI is seeking an ICT Assistant to help provide ICT support to our employees around the world, providing a first line support service, liaising with external providers and processing relevant administration.

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Join the Black Mammalogists Week Hackathon!

WILDLABS Team
On May 3rd, join the Black Mammalogists Week Team for their virtual Hackathon highlighting three conservation tech areas of interest. All skills and levels of expertise are welcome! Want to get involved? Fill out this...

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Looking for - Intelligence Database Software

I work for an anti-poaching organization (https://rhino-force.org/) with a reasonably successful intelligence arm that makes around ~70 wildlife-related arrests each year. We are...

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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 relational database software can do the core of what you are looking for.

You'll need to develop the database application to model (perhaps people from Hemmersbach can help with that) and store what data you want to capture about suspects, incidents, firearms and what have you.

Export to XL should be a no-brainer .

Entity-relationship visualization (I think you mean networks of suspects, firearms, etc.) is not easy for such softwares, but exporting the data and then importing to a network visualizer (GEPHI perhaps) should be possible.

For temporal and spatial data you would do something similar. Don't let the database software do it (unless it has a plugin or extension for it) but export to Geographical Information System software. I can not suggest any, but there must be plenty of that around, probably even open source/freeware.

If you insist on having it all integrated, then that is probably possible, but you'll have to pay a developer for it.

Hopefully this helps

Frank

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Opportunity: Coding 4 Conservation

Coding 4 Conservation
Apply now for Coding 4 Conservation's year-long mentorship program in R-based data analysis and communication for Malagasy students. Apply here by Friday, April 1, 2022 at 11:59 pm East Africa Time (GMT+3).

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Use of apps to monitor wildlife trade

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone knows of mobile or computer applications which have been designed for use in wildlife marketplaces? So far I can find:...

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Not designed specifically for wildlife marketplaces, but SMART Collect can be used for citizen science and community reporting projects.

DeerLab.com's trail camera software was built to manage and analyze photos. It's a cloud-based web application that has a number of features, from photo recognition to manual tagging of any animal. While geared toward hunters, it's also used for camera trap studies. 

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 offered for sale to US Fish and Wildlife, State wildlife agents, National Whistleblowers Center, and the Department of Homeland Security for investigation and prosecution. So far, our intel has led to six successful prosecutions in the US.  It can be used anywhere in the world. 

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How do I turn a conservation tech project into a product?

Shah Selbe
In this Tech Tutors episode, Shah Selbe answered the question, How do I turn a conservation tech project into a product? In this episode, he discusses how to scale an innovative conservation tech project into a product...

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Tools for conservation management

Good day all,  I want to find out the tools that are available for conservation management. The tools should ideally be user friendly, especially for the game guards...

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I replied to one of your other posts with this so apologies if you're seeing it twice, but have you tried Vulcan's EarthRanger? That's the only thing I can think of that hasn't already been mentioned (SMART, CyberTracker, etc.).

I just thought of something else that might be an option - Miradi Share (https://www.miradishare.org/ux/home). 

Kobocollect could be adapted to and easy to use: https://www.kobotoolbox.org/

 

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Technology for illiterate community game guards

Good day,  What are the available wildlife monitoring technologies that are appropriate for illiterate game guards/rangers? 

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I wanted to share this wonderful website I just came across from the Earth Defenders Toolkit that lists a bunch of apps and software/platforms that are used for data collection, analysis, sharing & by many Indigenous groups. Some of them specifically are aimed towards illiterate users. 

Link - https://earthdefenderstoolkit.com/toolfinder 

They also link to the platforms they're referencing so you can learn more about them. I hadn't heard of many of them, but they seem really useful! Cadasta, Mapbox, Field Papers, OpenDroneMap, Sapelli, etc etc

Thanks for posting Carlybatist - very interesting link.

A couple of our WildTrack users have asked about the possibility of collecting our footprint data through the SMART app. Does anyone know a developer connected with SMART who might be able to help us discuss this possibility? Thank you!

Zoe

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Low-cost app and web site development for NGOs

A new NGO started in the USA during the pandemic called Develop for Good. It brings together volunteer designers, developers and project managers who are currently in school...

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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. Thanks for posting this!

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