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Group / Ethics of Conservation Tech

Over the last few years the conservation movement has been enthusiastically deploying new technologies that make it possible to observe and protect the natural world in ways once unimaginable. But are there any potential risks we need to consider as we deploy the new, exciting technologies?

Group / Marine Conservation

Bringing together many of our community's tech types like bioacoustics, biologging, drones, remote sensing, machine learning, and more, the Marine Conservation group is a meeting point to begin innovative collaborations and answer difficult questions.

Group / Sustainable Fishing Challenges

This group welcomes those in our marine conservation tech community to collaborate together on challenges related to sustainable fishing practices. Inspired by this thread focusing on minimising the impact of trawling gear on seafloor environments, the Sustainable Fishing Challenges group is a place to share resources, pose challenges, brainstorm creative solutions, and begin collaborative projects.

Group / Wildlife Crime

Wildlife crime is a complicated challenge, so it's no wonder that the conservation technology community has explored solutions with every type of technology, all with the aim of predicting, preventing, and stopping crimes like poaching, illegal logging and fishing, and the sale of animal products like ivory. Join our Wildlife Crime group to meet others who are working on potential solutions to this global challenge and to add your own expertise to the conversation!

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...