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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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Conservation Technology Research Internship

Meredith Palmer

26 August 2022 4:58pm

Boost cons tech capacity at an international NGO! Fauna & Flora International is offering a paid three-month internship to consolidate and share best practices for the application of emerging hardware and software...

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Developer, Mara Elephant Project

Stephanie O'Donnell

19 August 2022 12:35pm

Mara Elephant Project is looking to hire a developer to be based full-time in Nairobi at the Mara Elephant Project office located on Karen. The role will also require frequent field visits to the project HQ located in...

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Lead Software Engineer, Wildlife Insights

Nicole Flores

10 August 2022 11:06pm

Are you creative, love new challenges and have experience developing software? The Wildlife Insights team is hiring! Join a diverse team of ecologists, data scientists, engineers and machine learning experts to protect...

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Research Associate

San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

29 July 2022 9:34pm

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

Tobias Petri

26 July 2022 8:16pm

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

Catherine Greene

13 July 2022 9:05am

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

Dannii

1 July 2022 5:00pm

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

31 May 2022 12:50pm

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

19 April 2022 12:00am

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

Dexter_Rhino_Force

14 June 2021 10:13am

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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Frank van der Most

21 March 2022 9:19pm

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

10 March 2022 12:00am

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

Sicily Fiennes

14 October 2021 8:29pm

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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Michelle Gan

3 November 2021 12:46am

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

Jon Livingston

5 November 2021 5:22pm

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. 

Sue Orloff

5 November 2021 6:56pm

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

20 October 2021 12:00am

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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