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Event / Community Base
Join WILDLABS in New York City for the World Wildlife Day 2024 UN Celebration
6 February 2024
Discussion / Community Base
Welcome to WILDLABS!
Stephanie O'Donnell
Hello and welcome to the WILDLABS community! With 6,000 members and counting, we want to get to know you a little better. In a couple of...
29 October 2015
Event / Community Base
WILDLABS NYC Networking Event
Alex Rood
Join WILDLABS on March 4th in NYC for a conservation tech networking event alongside WWF, USFWS, IFAW, Microsoft, and more!
21 February 2024
Discussion / Protected Area Management Tools | Community Base
Are you attending SMART Global Congress 2024?
Adrien Pajot
Hi everybody!Are you attending SMART Global Congress 2024 in early March?I will be in Namibia for the entire duration of the congress, representing WILDLABS, and would be very...
22 February 2024
Event / Community Base
WILDLABS Washington DC Meet-Up
Alex Rood
Join WILDLABS on March 7th in Washington, DC for a casual in-person meetup.
21 February 2024
Conversations & Questions
Akiba
Community Member
Add your voice to our conservation tech community
The WILDLABS community forums are a fountain of knowledge. By joining discussions, we can understand what the real problems are, collaborate with people with the right expertise to solve those problems, and work together to craft real solutions. We hope you'll join the conversation!
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| Hi Scott, thanks so much for sharing your thoughts here! It would be great to learn more about this, would you be interested in finding a time to chat? Thanks! |
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Marine Conservation, Sustainable Fishing Challenges, Wildlife Crime | 59 seconds ago | |
| maybe not very helpful and techy stuff, but indeed interesting to prevent livestock predation if you haven't seen one |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict, East Africa Community | 10 minutes 23 seconds ago | |
| Hi all, My name is Danny and I've just found WILDLABS. I have a career in cutting edge technology, mostly hardware systems in the energy space - engineering, project... |
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Community Base | 2 hours 12 minutes ago | |
| What's the accuracy like? |
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Biologging | 6 hours 3 minutes ago | |
| Absolutely! I pretty much do the same thing, the resizing step I think relates to what I still have to do. Some large images caused my code to crash.I want to take it one step... |
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AI for Conservation | 12 hours 53 minutes ago | |
| Hi Kevin and Kim, Apologies for the delayed response; however, we were unable to provide specific information until today. We aim to reach out to each applicant in the... |
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Community Base | 13 hours 5 minutes ago | |
| Hi Andrew! Great to hear your friend, Scott working in Indonesia! I bet he is working on east region with lot of cool monitor lizards!I use Mavic 2 as well for my crocodile... |
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Camera Traps | 1 day 10 hours ago | |
| Were you ever able to solve the problem? Interestingly enough, I begin a seal bio-logging study next year! Also, you are correct. The errors were occurring during short bout... |
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Data management and processing tools | 2 days 2 hours ago | |
| Hi Richard, Thanks for proposing, I would be happy to meet you and SMART people there! |
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Protected Area Management Tools, Community Base | 2 days 6 hours ago | |
| Unless you are planning on making a mesh network between nodes then the total distance spanning the location of all the nodes is important to know, not just the intra node... |
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Sensors, Protected Area Management Tools | 2 days 8 hours ago | |
| This is great, thank you so much @zhongqimiao ! I will check it out and looking forward for the upcoming tutorial! |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Open Source Solutions | 2 days 23 hours ago | |
| Thanks @alexrood for creating this visual! |
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Community Base | 3 days 6 hours ago |
Connect & Collaborate
Jake Burton
WILDLABS Project Officer
Meet conservation tech community members from around the world
WILDLABS members are working in conservation tech on every continent. No matter what you’re working on - or where - you’ll find someone to connect with in our community. To message people directly, create a profile today!
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I am a conservation biologist focused on cheetahs in shared ecosystems with people and other wildlife. We use technology in data collection, analysis and distribution.
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I am a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Southern California interested in using AI for historical biodiversity reconstruction, conservation, and climate change research. I work mostly with insects and computer vision.
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PhD, lecturer researcher at University of Bejaia Algeria
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I am a researcher focused on the wildlife management and conservation
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I am from Bangalore working as a professional Naturalist in Various parts of India.
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My name is Ninying Benedicta a PhD student under the Department of wildlife resource management in Cameroon. I love learning about wildlife and their habitats. I also love working with communities surrounding the forests, learning on Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
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Shea Vang
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Hello, my name is Shea Vang. I am a first generation Hmong woman professional interested in learning more about green/sustainable practices, clean tech, and carbon projects.
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The Open University (OU)
Senior Project Manager Citizen Science, Faculty of STEM, The Open University, UK I manage projects that use innovative educational and web-based technology to engage public participation in and learning about science i.e. biodiversity (www.iSpotnature.org, https://treezilla.org).
Sienna Weinstein
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Wildlife conservationist, writer, and photographer looking for a job in wildlife conservation! My "dream job" would involve adding a creative aspect (e.g., writing or photography) to promote the conservation of wildlife worldwide.
Ideas & Updates
Ellie Warren
WILDLABS Editor
Keep up with the #Tech4Wildlife Community
Your experiences and knowledge are important to the future of conservation tech - so share your story! Post a new article, event or opportunity and help create a living hub for conservation technology that everyone can use.
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Data data everywhere, but not a byte to use!
Cassie Anderson
Is there really a sustainability data deficiency? We don’t think so.
29 February 2024
Careers
A PHD POSITION AT NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY
Consolata Gathoni Gitau
Do you know anyone interested in this position? Let them know by sharing widely.
27 February 2024
Careers
Join the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) in pioneering environmental and ecological monitoring! 🌍💡 As part of ERIN’s Observatory for Climate, Environment, and Biodiversity (OCEB), you'll be at the...
26 February 2024
Careers
Machine Learning Postdoc Position, Understory
29 February 2024
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Event
International Day of Forest 2024 Webinar: Forest & Innovation
22 February 2024
EstherGithinji
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SMART Global Congress 2024
22 February 2024
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WILDLABS Washington DC Meet-Up
21 February 2024
alexrood
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WILDLABS NYC Networking Event
21 February 2024
alexrood
Careers
Community Spaces
Esther Githinji
East Africa Coordinator
Join a group and find your community
Connecting with people who understand the technology, species, and habitats you’re working with is so important to building your conservation tech network. Whether you’re looking for expert advice or just want to chat about your experiences, our Groups will help you find your corner of the WILDLABS community.
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- New paper - An integrated passive acoustic monitoring and deep learning pipeline for black-and-white ruffed lemurs in Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar
We demonstrate the power of using passive acoustic monitoring & machine learning to survey species, using ruffed lemurs in southeastern Madagascar as an example.
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- Update on SEE Shell App to identify illegal tortoiseshell products
SEE Shell is an innovative phone app that uses machine learning to identify products made from the shell of the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle.
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- ICOTEQ launch TAGRANGER® system of products
TagRanger® is a state-of-the-art wildlife finding, monitoring and tracking solution for research, conservation and environmental professionals. With superior configurability for logging data, reporting location and engaging in GPS-beating ranging technology, TagRanger® will direct you to the exact Tag location with a precision that gets you within touching distance (‘Finding’).
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- New DNA tests achieve first convictions for raptor thefts
A set of highly discriminating STR DNA markers developed in a collaboration between the SASA wildlife forensics lab and University of Leicester researchers is being used to detect laundering of wild peregrine falcons into the captive-bred market for onward sale as racing birds in the Middle East.
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- Holistic, Ethical & Community-led Human-Wildlife Conflict Solutions with Gabriela Fleury
Listen in on our interview with human-predator conflict expert, Gabi Fleury and gain a deeper understanding of the importance of holistic, ethical and community-led approaches to developing tech solutions for conservation.
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- Low-cost hydrophone - Invitation to tender
The IQOE Task Team on Low-Cost Hydrophones for Research, Education, and Citizen Science is looking for industry partners to develop a low-cost hydrophone.
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Talia Speaker
Research Coordinator
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Our team works to make WILDLABS’ events engaging, fun, and informative. From Tech Tutors to Virtual Meetups to Community Calls, our events will help you learn, connect, and explore new conservation tech ideas.
WILDLABS Meetups
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You’re invited to connect with fellow WILDLABS community members in one of our upcoming in person meetups! Drop by one of our happy hour events to meet other community members, hear what peers are working on, and chat with the WILDLABS team.
Find these events and more in our conservation technology calendar!
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WILDLABS Collections will help you dive deeper into the conservation tech topics that matter most to you, and find favorite resources from other community members. Start exploring our collections below!
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EarthRanger: All you need to know!
Netty Cheruto
3 August 2022
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Rob Appleby
Community Member
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