With experts across the WILDLABS community working with every type of technology and in every imaginable environment, our platform is a great place to find advice and resources on choosing what tools are right for your conservation project. Whether you're in the market to try a new camera trap model, want to experiment with drones for the first time, or need help weighing the pros and cons of data management tools, there's someone in the WILDLABS community who can help you make a smart and informed choice!
The Community Base is our general gathering group. It's the place where we cover more general, big picture topics in conservation technology - ones that don't fit neatly into our other groups. If you don't know where to post something, just post it in this group. Our moderators will move it if needed!
At our Community Base, you'll find updates from the WILDLABS team on upcoming events and opportunities, and have the chance to shape our programs and platform with your opinions. And most importantly, the Community Base is also home to our Welcome to WILDLABS thread, the best place to introduce yourself to us and the community. Stop by and tell us what you're working on!
Whether you're new to WILDLABS and want to know where to begin, or you're a longtime member looking for a handy bank of resources, our Getting Started on WILDLABS thread will be your one-stop guide to getting the most out of our platform.
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WILDLABS & Fauna & Flora
I'm the Executive Manager at WILDLABS.
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- @TaliaSpeaker
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WILDLABS & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
I'm the WILDLABS Research Specialist at WWF-US
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- @EllieW
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- @Adrien_Pajot
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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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- @alexrood
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WILDLABS & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
I'm the WILDLABS Communications and Community Management Associate Specialist at WWF-US
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- @EstherGithinji
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WILDLABS & Fauna & Flora
I am the WILDLABS East Africa Conservation Technology Coordinator
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- @Frank_van_der_Most
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FileMaker developer with a passion for nature.
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I'm a software developer. I have open source projects in practical object detection and alerting that is well suited for poacher detection and a Raspberry Pi based sound localizing ARU project
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American Museum of Natural History
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Freaklabs
I'm an engineer and product designer working on wildlife conservation technology.
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DIY electronics for behavioral field biology
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- @CourtneyShuert
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I am a behavioural ecologist and eco-physiologist interested in individual differences in marine mammals and other predators
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- @HRees
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WILDLABS & Fauna & Flora
WILDLABS - Programme Development Manager, keen interest in bats, hyaenas and tech!
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- @ThinkNature
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We, at Think Nature, are a university-launched startup that aims to transform into a nature economy where humans and nature coexist.
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- @TaliaSpeaker
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WILDLABS & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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27 February 2024
Join the mission to help tackle IUU fishing with cutting-edge tech! The Allan Institute for AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to accelerate efforts to make sure those working to restore our ocean have the tools...
21 February 2024
Careers
Arribada is seeking a motivated Technical Research Officer to manage and co-ordinate the regular deployment, configuration and testing of conservation technologies developed for Operation Pangolin in Cameroon and Gabon.
21 February 2024
UNEP is hiring a Data Scientist to use internal and external data for evidence-based decision support by looking at trends, current data and predictions. The Data Scientist will support the accelerating and scaling...
15 February 2024
Data from the WILDLABS Awards 2024 submissions confirms what our State of Conservation Tech survey unveiled: women are an underrepresented group in conservation tech.
13 February 2024
The Ecological Acoustics and Behavior Lab at the University of New Hampshire seeks a PhD student to join our lab to investigate how forest habitat affects moose occupancy and soundscape in northern New Hampshire
13 February 2024
The primary focus of the research is to explore how red deer movements, space use, habitat selection and foraging behaviour change during the wolf recolonization process.
10 February 2024
The conclusion of the WILDLABS Awards 2024 selection process is imminent! Our external judging panel is currently deliberating to determine the 14 chosen projects. Meet them!
9 February 2024
The Wildlife Restoration Foundation is hiring a Conservation Technology Intern
8 February 2024
The Conservation Technology Laboratory within the Population Sustainability department is seeking two fellows for summer 2024.
9 January 2024
With the support of Women in Conservation Technology (Kenya) and Arm, I had a chance to work with Kijabe Environment Volunteers in Kikuyu Escarpment Forest. This was an opportunity to channel my passion for the...
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Hi all!Dropping back in to share that we're thinking about how supply chain issues tie into our upcoming series on conservation tech sustainability. We've started a Twitter thread... |
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@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 Carly, Thanks for digging up my previous thread (I couldn't find it). I guess I've been asking this question for a few years now!I had also heard of grants from car... |
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Community Base | 1 year 11 months ago | |
Hi Isobel, Great to hear from you! I would love to learn more and connect so that I can discuss with the team further. You can reach me here: [email protected] . Thank... |
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Community Base | 1 year 11 months ago | |
This is a great one! I will be attending virtually.Though did not receive any feedback to the emails I sent them about issues registrating. Had to call them from Italy to get a... |
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Community Base | 1 year 11 months ago | |
Hey all!I'm well into my journey into the field of conservation now, after volunteering and freelancing for a couple of different... |
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Biologging, Community Base, Open Source Solutions | 1 year 11 months ago | |
ha, I totally didn't expect you to jump into this thread Netty but I'm here for it! Your twitter takeover this week has been super fun to watch, definitely one of my highlights... |
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Community Base | 1 year 11 months ago | |
Hi Courtney, Over on Twitter your question has had a useful reply from CodeforPDX:Steph |
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Community Base | 1 year 11 months ago | |
There are only a few days left to apply to the 2022 Gathering for Open Science Hardware! Join a community of scientists, hardware developers, artists, and activists... |
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Community Base, Open Source Solutions | 2 years 1 month ago | |
Hi all! My name is Gabi Fleury and I'm part of the Black Mammalogists Week organizing committee and will be collaborating with WILDLABS on setting up this May 3rd... |
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Community Base | 2 years 1 month ago | |
An update on my audio cases. I tried changing a few things. 1. Changed battery brand and thus the age of the batteries I was being supplied. The Tadiran cells being supplied... |
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Community Base | 2 years 1 month ago | |
Hello! I have been watching GPS collars carefully as their are nearing their time of drop-off. We are testing burst fixes on these last few weeks of their 2.5 year deployment.... |
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Community Base | 2 years 2 months ago |
Thoughts on new MSc in Conservation Technology
24 May 2024 3:54pm
Welcome to WILDLABS!
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22 May 2024 9:49am
Hello everyone. I run a small ecological consultancy based in the Scottish Highlands. Although I undertake a range of ecological surveys for commercial and academic clients, primarily focussing on protected species and upland habitats, I am increasingly specialising in the use of UAVs and GIS. Example current projects include UAV mapping of non-native invasive species with semi-automatic classification, high resolution aerial image acquisition of seals from UAV for census and individual recognition, identification of rare montane scrub species on inaccessible cliffs using UAV and high resolution peatland restoration monitoring.
Areas of interest centre around the use of UAVs, GIS, remote sensing, machine learning and AI, thermal imaging and wildlife telemetry but always keen to explore new advances in order to increase efficiency, effectiveness and robustness of ecological data collection for applied conservation.
I have been dipping into WildLabs for some time, but finally got round to fully registering. I look forward to being part of the community.
24 May 2024 3:18am
Hello we are Think Nature Inc. from Japan.
We, at Think Nature, are a university-launched startup that aims to transform into a nature economy where humans and nature coexist. Our mission is to evaluate and visualize the value of natural capital and contribute to Nature Positive economy.
Please kindly check our website for more information.
We are happy to join this community of WILDLABS.
25 May 2024 4:26am
Hi. We're FreakLabs, a conservation technology company based in Japan and Australia. For Japan, we have our manufacturing facilities in Chiba prefecture on the Boso Peninsula. We've been hearing a lot about the biodiversity work coming out of Okinawa and OIST. Would love to have a meeting with someone from Think Nature.
Akiba
WILDLABS Conservation Technology Meetup - Cambridge
24 May 2024 10:58am
Research in community-based conservation programs: best practices & challenges
24 May 2024 9:57am
🌊🐋 Join the Coastal and Marine Wildlife Working Group of The Wildlife Society! 🦈🐢
23 May 2024 10:53pm
Wildlife Data and Technology Side Events at World Biodiversity Forum 2024
23 May 2024 9:16pm
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES WORKSHOP 2024
23 May 2024 9:01pm
Who's attending the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos?
20 May 2024 9:50pm
22 May 2024 8:29am
Sounds great.
At what day will you present your talk?
Greetings from Austria,
Robin
22 May 2024 5:39pm
We'll be presenting Wednesday morning as part of session 10.1b on "Integrating earth observations and biological tools in ecology and evolution to cogenerate knowledge towards meeting the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets." For the side events, we're planning tentatively for a social Monday evening (following the welcome Apéro) and a meeting Wednesday during or after lunch on leveraging animal movement to meet conservation/policy goals.
We'd love to see you!
Save Our Seas, small grant call (±$5K)
19 May 2024 8:05pm
REDAA call for £1-1.5M projects
19 May 2024 5:03pm
Share Your Work in a Conservation Technology Video
17 May 2024 9:06pm
Survey on European biodiversity monitoring communities
7 May 2024 3:39pm
Biodiversa+ is running a survey to map the European biodiversity monitoring landscape, identify opportunities for collaboration, and strengthen coordination for improved monitoring.
300 funding and finance opportunities in free database
4 May 2024 3:12pm
WILDLABS downtime and performance issues due to AI bot attack
29 April 2024 3:35pm
1 May 2024 6:05pm
I noticed the site being annoyingly slow some time last week. Thank you for clearing that up, for finding the cause and solving the issue.
I'm not claiming deep knowledge on AI, but as a member this community, I'd be happy to give you my insights.
For starters: I am not categorically against bots scraping 'my' content, whether for AI training purposes, search engines, or other purposes. In principle, I find it a good thing that this forum is open to non-member users, and to me that extends to non-member use. Obviously, there are some exceptions here. For example when locations of individuals of endangered species are discussed, that should be behind closed doors.
Continuing down this line of reasoning, apparently it matters to me how 'my' content is being used. So, if someone wants to make an AI to aid nature conservation, I say, let them have it. There is the practical side of scraping activities that may be blocking or hindering the site, but there may be practical solutions for this. I don't know, say, have special opening hours for such things, or have the site engine prepare the data and make it available as a data dump somewhere.
Since purpose matters, organizations or individuals wanting to scrape the site should be vetted and given access or not. This is far more easily said than done. However, every step in the direction would be worth the while, because most technology publicly discussed here has good use for nature conservation, but equally bad use for nature destruction. For example, it's good to acoustically monitor bird sounds to monitor species, but also comes in handy when you are in the exotic bird trafficking business.
One could argue that since we allow public access, we should not care either about why bots are scraping the site. I would not go that far. After all, individual people browsing the site with nefarious purposes in mind is something else than a bot systematically scraping the entire site (or sections thereof) for bad purposes. It's a matter of scale.
The Inventory User Guide
1 May 2024 12:46pm
Introducing The Inventory!
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Hiring Chief Engineer at Conservation X Labs
1 May 2024 12:19pm
InConversation: Season 1*Final Episode*
30 April 2024 11:38am
Delving into #tech4wildlife Innovation across East Africa with Sandra Maryanne & Catherine Njore
30 April 2024 11:37am
Job Opening: Associate Curator of International Conservation at North Carolina Zoo
29 April 2024 9:17pm
A Year of Supporting East African Conservation Technology: Lessons on How You Can Amplify #Tech4Wildlife
29 April 2024 10:52am
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Monitoring Team Lead, Ponterra
23 April 2024 3:19pm
Introduction and Networking
22 April 2024 9:37am
22 April 2024 10:46am
Hello and welcome to WILDLABS @loveness :)
What a great intro to what you are doing and interested in pursuing! I'd like to help direct you to our resources page, where you can check out multiple open career and academic opportunities from across your region that are posted regularly by the community. Find our Resources page linked here.
Which specific areas within conservation/conservation technology are you most interested in at the moment? We have over 32 specialised groups in our community you could explore here to help guide you as you go along your career journey :)
Best wishes!
23 April 2024 12:41pm
Hello Ms Esther👋
Thank you for taking your time to reply to me with such helpful response.
I'm interested in conservation technology such as camera traps, GIS and Remote sensing, tools like EarthRanger, wildlife tracking collars, Data collection apps. I've already joined the groups just after reading your response and I'll keep visit the Resources Page to find more opportunities.
Conservation Tech Career Pathways - what do you want to know?
17 June 2022 1:30pm
8 May 2023 2:43am
Wildlabers,
I have been randomly trying a few things here and there for a career switch. But so far it has been in bits and pieces. Meanwhile, I have started pursuing Masters in AI and ML hoping that might bring some tractions to my career search/ switch.
Meanwhile, I keep at it while being in my current job.
Thanks,
Soumya
20 April 2024 5:36pm
Unfortunately , not yet . Still digging into it in my free time. And trying to setup a camera in my bord feeder for a mini conservation project in my back garden :)
20 April 2024 5:41pm
Hi Soumya ,
Interested to know if you are pursuing distance education in ML while at your current job. I would love to hear more about your journey on course specifics and the platform you use to complete the education, and I would love to hear if you have any recommendations based on your experiences.
Thanks,
Savi
Thoughts on RooBadge?
2 April 2024 2:55pm
5 April 2024 12:31pm
Sound deterrents to prevent collisions with Kangaroos in Australia have been sold for many years. None have been shown to work. Whether the Volkswagen device will be any better waits to be seen. Collision data will have to be collected for a while to see if the VW device has any effect on collision rate.
8 April 2024 12:49am
That is an interesting concept, and it would be great if something out there worked. In the meantime, I will try not to drive at dusk 🦘
At one point, I knew the "sonic" animal guards were the most stolen components of cars. You head in, get groceries, and come out, and they are gone. They weren't on the car long enough for me to confirm that would work
20 April 2024 2:40am
Totally agree.
Inititally sceptical until I saw Helena and Graeme were involved.
MJ
Variety Hour: What do you want to see?
15 September 2022 12:46pm
17 April 2024 7:53pm
Steph, yes, I gathered as much myself, but I still wanted to put it on the agenda. It links to the bigger problem in nature conservation, and especially funding : all projects are required to be effective and successful, scalable, profitable and so on (not to mention the paper trail that applicants need to produce to prove it ). It makes sense from the donors' perspective, because if a project is not at least one of these, then it is a waste of money an how do they explain that to the public and the donors' donors. On the other hand, the IMHO ( H for honest ) over emphasis on this requirement is counterproductive and it does not fit in the world of tech development.
To start with the latter, as we all know, in the world of tech VC and startups, people are very used to the idea that a tech invention is not successful. I've read that if you haven't had two failed startups behind you, you're a better contender with your next one. 9 Out of 10 will fail and the remaining one will more than make up for the loss, is the idea. This way of looking at projects fits very well in this tech oriented forum.
Then the counter productive part : with a funding climate like that, who is going to take risks with tech development for nature conservation? Seriously, anybody reading this: if you raise your hand, please do get in touch, because I am curious how you look at the issue and how you deal with it. Whereas I do agree that nature conservation as a whole needs to be successful, I don't believe that the sponsors' stress on it for individual projects is successful itself. Nature's degradation has developed so far ( call me a pessimist ), that we need to take risks and find out if ( and hope that ) what works for silicon valley can work for nature.
Kudos for your attempt at the 'Technical difficulties'. I didn't know about it. Maybe we ( but I mean you, of course ;-) can tinker with the formula. Ask people to talk about how they overcame problems in some detail, because then it is a success story again. ( They could earn a badge! ) And if the recording is an issue, then don't record, or work on anonymity with temporary accounts, TOR, voice scramblers and the camera off. Maybe people are willing to write about their failures instead of doing a live presentation. That way, one has absolute control over anonymizing individuals and hiding the project from being identified. Little risk of a slip of the tongue.
18 April 2024 12:57pm
Thanks for your thoughts on the importance of sharing more about failure in our unique sector. You bring up some very valid points @Frank_van_der_Most and I think the perspective of 'learning by doing' is quite essential. I've shared below some stories I've covered from our East Africa community that touch on this and the perspective that has emerged has been on learning from these experiences and developing with more insight to solve conservation challenges more effectively. I hope you will find these interesting and useful.
19 April 2024 8:06am
Hi @Frank_van_der_Most,
great point and I will address this in my little talk next week.
Greetings from Austria,
Robin
Involve our young learners in climate change action.
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5 April 2024 4:01pm
Hi Cathy
I can't help personally but on seeing your post reached out to a contact who's previously been involved in the British Cartographic Society in case they had any ideas. Their advice:
"I would suggest that she becomes a member of British Cartographic Society (£45 or so) and then writes for/becomes an editor. Then, she will be able to apply for a funding budget for travel... as long as she also writes about the conference! It's a bit long winded, but I am sure that just being an Editor would be an advantage to her anyway."
I hope that helps (or that you find an easier way to get to the conference :D ) - good luck!
Here's their website -
6 April 2024 7:50pm
Thank you so much for this!
18 April 2024 11:40pm
I got assistance. super grateful!
Catch up with The Variety Hour: April 2024
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26 May 2024 4:43am
Hi @emmahiggins ,
sounds like a great plan.
Could you tell more about the content of the program, and perhaps the institutional context (which department(s) is(are) going to offer the course, and which research programs or projects are related to it) , so we'll have something to orient our thoughts?