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Yvan Satgé completed a course - "Environmental DNA for Terrestrial Vertebrate Conservation"
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Yvan Satgé enrolled on a new course - "Environmental DNA for Terrestrial Vertebrate Conservation"
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Yvan Satgé commented on "GPS Tracker For Wildlife"
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Yvan Satgé commented on "GPS Tracker For Wildlife"
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Yvan Satgé completed a course - "Camera Trapping for Conservation"
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Yvan Satgé enrolled on a new course - "Camera Trapping for Conservation"
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Yvan Satgé added a new Discussion - "eDNA sampling kits" to eDNA & Genomics
Yvan Satgé added a new Discussion - "Mossy Earth Innovation grant" to Funding and Finance
Yvan Satgé added a new Discussion - "Using "motion extraction" for animal identification" to Camera Traps
Yvan Satgé commented on "Grants for vehicles"
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Yvan Satgé added a new Discussion - "Can deep learning identify seabirds? (species, within-species, individual)" to AI for Conservation
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- Getting behavioral data out of datasets that weren't built for it
The Animal Movement Group is a collaborative community dedicated to advancing the study, monitoring, and conservation of animal movement. It provides a space for researchers, practitioners, and innovators to exchange knowledge, explore bio-logging approaches and data, and address conservation challenges linked to species mobility.
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- Wild Moves and Wild Album: New GBIF Data Portals for Animal Tracking and Camera Trap Data
New data portals are making it easier to discover and explore wildlife tracking and camera trap datasets from around the world.
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- Engineer Searching for Biologists
The eDNA & Genomics Group focuses on advancing biodiversity monitoring, species detection, and ecological research using environmental DNA (eDNA) and genomics technologies. Our members are engaged in the collection, sequencing, and analysis of DNA from environmental samples—such as soil, water, and feces—to detect species presence, assess genetic diversity, and study population structure without the need for direct observation or capture.
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- Assessing Critical Habitats Using Environmental DNA to Conserve the World’s Rarest Heron- White-bellied Heron Ardea insignis
The White-bellied Heron (Ardea insignis) is the world's rarest heron, with only about 60 individuals remaining globally. Bhutan holds nearly half of the remaining population, making conservation efforts within the country crucial to the species' survival. As part of my PhD research at Texas State University, I have been working to better understand the ecology, habitat suitability, and conservation needs of this critically endangered species. I employ an interdisciplinary approach that integrates field ecology, environmental DNA (eDNA) and portable genomics technologies to improve biodiversity monitoring and conservation planning for White-bellied Heron in Bhutan. Unlike traditional monitoring approaches that rely solely on direct observations, eDNA allows researchers to detect biodiversity from traces of genetic material left behind in the environment. The WILDLABS Award provided an exciting opportunity not only to advance research but also to demonstrate how emerging conservation technologies can be applied in remote landscapes while building local capacity for conservation genetics. Through this project, we sought to explore how portable molecular tools can support conservation decision-making while making advanced genetic technologies more accessible to researchers and practitioners in Bhutan.
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- Looking To Utilize My Skillsets To Help
Conservation dogs are making a difference in conservation through their noninvasive ability to detect elusive species in the wild, flag illegal wildlife trade products, and help poachers fight wildlife crime. Whether you work with conservation dogs, you're interested in incorporating them into your work, or you just want to learn about how dogs can support and enhance conservation technology's effectiveness, you're in the right place!
🌍 Conservation technology is transforming how we protect wildlife, but are we thinking carefully enough about the risks? Drones, camera traps, GPS trackers, acoustic sensors, AI, and remote sensing have become essential tools for conservation practitioners around the world. They help us monitor species, detect threats, and respond faster than ever before. But these same technologies can also introduce unintended risks, and in some cases, can be exploited by those seeking to harm the very wildlife we're trying to protect. 🦏 Input now and/or join the discussions/research.
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- Spectrolipi v2.0.1
Acoustic is one of our biggest and most active groups, with members collecting, analysing, and interpreting acoustic data from across species, ecosystems, and applications, from animal vocalizations to sounds from our natural and built environment.
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- Open-Source Solutions for Amphibian Passive Acoustic Monitoring: Lessons from Patagonia
Monitoring amphibians across the temperate forests of Patagonia presents significant logistical and technical challenges. Remote locations, harsh environmental conditions, and the large volumes of data generated by Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) can make long-term biodiversity surveys difficult to implement and maintain. In addition, environmental data often relies on multiple independent devices, increasing costs, complexity, and logistical demands in remote field conditions. Through the WILDLABS Awards 2025, our team explored practical ways to address these challenges by combining open-source hardware, environmental sensing, and AI-assisted acoustic analysis.
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- London Climate Action Week 2026 Conservation Technology Related Events?
The WILDLABS Community Base is the ideal place to get oriented with the all that our community platform offers, hear about news and opportunities, and to meet new friends and collaborators.
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- The State of Conservation Technology: What Five Years of Data Tell Us
Our 2026 report is here, drawing on five years of community-sourced data to explore how the field is evolving, where progress is being made, and where collective action is still needed.
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Want to talk about sensors that don't quite fit into any of our tech-specific groups? This is the place to post! From temperature and humidity to airflow and pressure sensors, there are many environmental sensing tools that can add valuable data to core conservation monitoring technologies. With the increasing availability of low-cost, open-source options, we've seen growing interest in integrating these kinds of low bandwidth sensors into existing tools. What kinds of sensors are you working with?
🌍 Conservation technology is transforming how we protect wildlife, but are we thinking carefully enough about the risks? Drones, camera traps, GPS trackers, acoustic sensors, AI, and remote sensing have become essential tools for conservation practitioners around the world. They help us monitor species, detect threats, and respond faster than ever before. But these same technologies can also introduce unintended risks, and in some cases, can be exploited by those seeking to harm the very wildlife we're trying to protect. 🦏 Input now and/or join the discussions/research.
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- Looking for partners: Improving conservation funding and reporting
The number one problem in nature conservation is the need for more money or access to funding. This group aims to help all WILDLABS community members with funding and financing their projects. The group is called Funding and Finance to draw attention to the possibilities of funding (i.e., grants, awards, and other gifts) and finance (loans and venture capital investment in nature conservation projects and start-ups). These topics should be seen in their wider contexts, including that of a project or organisation’s income or business model.
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- WILDLABS Awards 2026: Meet the Judges
While the WILDLABS Awards 2026 submissions are in the final round of judging, meet the panel that is currently reviewing the shortlist of applications.
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eDNA sampling kits
Yvan Satgé
Hi all, I am trying to find simple pre-assembled eDNA sampling kits like these below but for sale in North America. Is that available? Or only as part of an assay?...
10 February 2025
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Mossy Earth Innovation grant
Yvan Satgé
Hi all,this may be a bit on the fringes of the WildLabs conservation tech but Mossy Earth is opening an innovation grant supporting tests of novel ecological restoration methods...
16 January 2025
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Hi all, I am no expert in the underlying machine learning models, algorithms, and AI-things used to identify animals in the various computer-vision tools out there (...
16 January 2024
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Grants for vehicles
Yvan Satgé
Hi all, It is an understatement to write that vehicles are necessary for efficient conservation. We all need motorbikes, pickup trucks, 4x4 to get to the places where...
21 June 2022
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Hello everyone,I am looking for insight on the feasibility of identifying seabirds from photos taken at sea (such as these https://www.flickr.com/photos/9191812@...
25 May 2022
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Conservation grants for field vehicles
Yvan Satgé
Hi everyone, Does anyone know of grants to support buying or repairing field vehicles? My colleagues in the Caribbean have old pick-up trucks that will die soon but they do not...
23 July 2020
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Interest in group order of ETag RFID readers
Yvan Satgé
Hi all, I'm trying to gauge interest in a potential group order of the open-source, low-cost ETag RFID readers designed by Eli Bridge's group. More...
5 December 2019
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Eli Brigge and colleagues just published a nice article detailing their open-source RFID logger. The article is in open access: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo....
17 July 2019
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Dear all, I recently used Mataki-LITE GPS tags (Debug Innovations, Cambridge, UK) and I thought it would be helpful to share the set-up I used...
6 September 2018
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Dear colleagues, I recently used Mataki-LITE GPS tags (Debug Innovations, Cambridge, UK) and I thought it would be helpful to share the set-up and...
6 September 2018
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Dear all, Do you know of any grants offered to train/provide environmental NGOs with conservation/detection dogs? I am involved in the International Black-capped Petrel...
14 May 2018
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Hi, CLS-Argos is organizing a contest to give-away 2 Argos ARTIC processors to develop an open-source Argos transmitter. Deadline is Oct. 14, 2017. More...
22 September 2017
Yvan Satgé commented on "From Messy Tables to Meaningful Insights: LLMs in Biodiversity Data Curation "