Resources | WILDLABS

Title	Author	Summary	Groups	Date
Article / Playing with Complexity: Games and Systems Thinking	WILDLABS Admin	Colleen Macklin, Director of PETLab, is enthusastic about using games to solve real-world problems. At the WWF Fuller Symposium, she discussed the serious potential games have for conservation and offered examples of games that have been...	Citizen Science, Climate Change, Software and Mobile Apps	Wednesday 13 January, 2016
Article / Biodiversity in a Drop of Water: The New Opportunity of eDNA	WILDLABS Admin	Dr. Claude Miaud, Professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, is a pioneer of eDNA research. He describes how a species’ DNA can be detected in the environment in which that species is found. This monitoring method is minimally...	eDNA & Genomics	Thursday 24 December, 2015
Article / Deep Coral Reef Exploration and Discovery: Two-way Technological Flow	WILDLABS Admin	David Gruber, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer, is a marine biologist working to develop fluorescent proteins into modulatable probes with neurobiological and medical applications. In his talk for the WWF Fuller Symposium, David...	eDNA & Genomics, Sensors	Thursday 24 December, 2015
Article / Mobile Phone Reporting for Rapid Wildlife Health Response in Uganda	WILDLABS Admin	Margaret Driciru, Senior Warden & Wildlife Veterinarian with the Uganda Wildlife Authority, showcases how mobile reporting technology is being used in the field to monitor, collect data, and send rapid alerts when lions and other...	Human-Wildlife Conflict, Software and Mobile Apps, East Africa Community	Tuesday 22 December, 2015
Article / Big Data and Conservation: Deluge or Drought?	WILDLABS Admin	Dr. Lucas Joppa, Scientist at Microsoft Research, considers the evolving impact of data in conservation and society. He examines the difference between ‘big data’ and ‘small data’, and explores how models such as the Madingley Model and...	Citizen Science, AI for Conservation, Biologging, Data management and processing tools	Tuesday 22 December, 2015
Article / Achieving Moonshots: Advancing Humankind and Preserving Nature	WILDLABS Admin	Katherine Chou, Product Lead at Google[x] Labs, sees technology as a way to make the impossible, possible. She explores differences in how wildlife NGOs and the tech sector think and plan, and what the conservation community can learn from...	Human-Wildlife Conflict, Biologging, Drones, Remote Sensing & GIS	Tuesday 22 December, 2015
Article / Cheap Space, DIY Imaging and Big Data	WILDLABS Admin	John Amos, President of SkyTruth, explores how remote sensing is being used in conservation today and the importance of sky-truthing. He examines the role that citizen scientists can play in increasing transparency in the private sector as...	Citizen Science, AI for Conservation, Data management and processing tools, Drones, Remote Sensing & GIS, Sensors	Monday 21 December, 2015
Article / The Impact of the Internet of Things	WILDLABS Admin	Gary Atkinson, Director of Emerging Technologies at ARM, explains why we should be interested in the Internet of Things. Could it be a game changer for conservation?	Climate Change, Sustainable Fishing Challenges, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Wildlife Crime, AI for Conservation, Sensors	Thursday 10 December, 2015
Article / Gaming for Good: Minecraft and Quiz Up	Peter Jacobs	Can games have real world impacts on issues like the illegal wildlife trade? In part two of his case study for the Gaming for Conservation Group, Peter Jacobs discusses United for Wildlife's efforts to engage young people in conservation...	Citizen Science, Wildlife Crime, Software and Mobile Apps	Thursday 3 December, 2015
Article / Harnessing Big Data to Combat Illegal Wildlife, Timber and Fisheries Trade	Vanessa Dick	The 2015 Fuller Symposium brought together thought leaders in science, policy, business, conservation and development to tackle emerging issues facing our planet. This framing piece was developed to support a Fuller Workshop discussion on...	Wildlife Crime, AI for Conservation	Thursday 26 November, 2015
Article / Technology for Traceability	Daniel Brizuela	Traceability (knowing where products come from and how they are made) is a foundational pre-cursor for many sustainability interventions. While many tools have been developed to offer high-level insight about the products and commodities...	Sustainable Fishing Challenges, Wildlife Crime, AI for Conservation	Thursday 26 November, 2015
Article / Gaming for Good: Runescape and Angry Birds	Peter Jacobs	Can games raise awareness of conservation issues like the illegal wildlife trade? In part one of his case study for the Gaming for Conservation Group, Peter Jacobs discusses how United for Wildlife is partnering with the Runescape and...	Citizen Science, Wildlife Crime, Software and Mobile Apps	Wednesday 25 November, 2015