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Article / Camera traps reveal mysteries of nature

Sharing personal 'best of' animal pictures is a favorite pastime of many camera trappers. A prolific camera trapper himself, Roland Kays...

Event / Video: Discover the SMART Approach

The Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) Partnership combines a ranger-based data collection tool with capacity building and a...

Article / Has technology provided a one-stop measure to halt albatross bycatch in fisheries?

Seabirds are killed in longline fisheries at such a fast rate that albatrosses cannot breed fast enough to rebuild populations. Solutions...

Article / Request for Expression of Interest for Individual Consultants to Conduct Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis

The Independent Evaluation Office of the Global Environment Facility is requesting Expressions of Interest from individual consultants to...

Article / Internet Cats Just Got Bigger

The internet has a long love affair with cat pictures, but these aren’t your mom’s internet cats. Now internet cats are getting even bigger...

Event / Zoohackathon: 'END LOOP - Coding to end wildlife trafficking'

Do you have programming or design skills? Would you like to make the world safer for endangered species? Join us at the inaugural ...

Article / We Can Have Oceans Teeming with Fish with FishFace Technology

FishFace is a new application under development by The Nature Conservancy in partnership with Refind Technologies. Similar to facial...

Article / How do Wildlife Crime Experts view Remote Sensing Technologies used to Combat Illegal Wildlife Crime?

As a visiting research scholar with UNODC, Isla Duporge asked wildlife crime experts about their experiences using remote sensing...

Article / 5 Smart Technologies That Will Crack Down On Wildlife Trafficking

Technology by itself will not save pangolins or elephants, but it can help make major progress.

Article / CSI for the Sea: How Scientists Use DNA to Spy on Whales and Find 'Extinct' Fish

In 2014, when Mariah Pfleger volunteered to sift through water samples from Alabama’s Mobile River Basin, she wasn’t expecting to solve one...

Article / A hive of activity – CAD designers are crafting an open future for bees

There’s no doubt about it. Bees are an important and integral part of our ecosystem, and their role as pollinators an incredibly important...

Article / #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge: Our favourites from 2016

Are you ready for this year's #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge? In anticipation, we're counting down our ten favourite entries from last year...

Article / Working with wolves: Sheepdog puppies join new flock

Carpathian shepherd dogs have been reintroduced to the Zarand Landscape Corridor to guard livestock and help mitigate human-wildlife...

Article / The Noise Egg: Testing the Effects of Underwater Noise on Aquatic Animals

Most people assume that research equipment is expensive and complicated. Yet it doesn’t need to be and the noise egg is a perfect example...

Article / 15 Risks and Opportunities for Global Conservation

Researchers have identified 15 emerging risks and opportunities for species and ecosystems around the world in a recent horizon scanning...

Article / Lasers in the Jungle Somewhere: How Airborne LiDAR Reveals the Structure of Forests

How many samples do you hope to collect on your next field assignment? 50, 100 or 1000? How about billions. It may seem overly optimistic,...

Article / From the Field: María José Bolgeri and tech to alleviate Puma-Human conflict

In our new From the Field series, we're speaking with WILDLABS members to discover how they use technology in their work. Through these...

Article / How to stop the thieves when all we want to capture is wildlife in action

The Camera Traps group is one the most active in our community, with members keen to discuss approaches to data management and processing,...

Article / From the Field: Paul Millhouser and tracking migrating kestrels with low cost, light based geolocators

Satellite tracking is the state of the art of technology for mapping wildlife movement. But what if your budget is not state of the art? In...

Article / Machine learning, meet the ocean

There is a revolution coming in conservation. Advances in conservation technology are generating more data than ever before on what lives...

Article / From the Field: Dr Raman Sukumar and Technology Developments Needed to Conserve Elephants

In this From the Field interview, we speak to Dr. Raman Sukumar, a world renowned expert on Asian elephant conservation. He shares his...

Event / SCCS Bengaluru 2017 in Bengaluru, India

The Student Conference on Conservation Science - Bengaluru will be held in Bengaluru, India from September 21st to the 24th, 2017. This...

Article / Getting SMART in Cambodia

In 2016, Cambodia reached a landmark for marine conservation when a 405 km2 Marine Fisheries Management Area was declared around the...

Article / Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge: Winners Announced!

From artificial “sniffer” technologies to portable DNA sequencers, the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge received hundreds of innovative ideas...