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Following on from our launch of Spanish, we are pleased to announce that WILDLABS is now available in French!
15 July 2026
Learn about the 16 selected projects that are working to innovate, scale, and adopt conservation technology for this year’s WILDLABS Awards.
7 July 2026
You're invited to the July 2026 WILDLABS Variety Hour. Join us to hear about how satellites, drones, and AI are helping diagnose mangrove health; an AI-powered decision support platform for Marine Protected Areas in...
20 July 2026
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.
16 June 2026
Get more involved in the WILDLABS community, build your network, and leave an impact on your field by becoming a WILDLABS Group Leader.
24 June 2026
Conversations & Questions
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| Fantastic. We've been talking about this again lately. Will definitely check it out!You're spot on regarding the line of sight antenna stuff. We run several 100+ mesh networks and... |
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Camera Traps | 14 hours 15 minutes ago | |
| Hi everyone,I have a major update: Global Birdsong Radio is officially Open Source! 🎉A couple of months ago, I replied to @brian.maiyo mentioning that I wasn't quiteready to share... |
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Acoustics | 18 hours 7 minutes ago | |
| Hi Maggie, Us researchers at the Offal Wildlife Watching project are investigating scavenger behavior at hunter-provided gut piles. We're using Zooniverse to classify... |
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AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Camera Traps, Data Management & Mobilisation, Geospatial, Protected Area Management Tools, Sensors, Software Development | 22 hours 53 minutes ago | |
| Thank you, Ahmed, and the whole eDNA & Genomics leadership team for all your hard work over the past year! We're looking forward to seeing the eDNA & Genomics community... |
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eDNA & Genomics | 13 hours 55 minutes ago | |
| Thank you all for your incredible work over the past year!! We truly appreciate the time, energy, and dedication you've invested in supporting and growing the Geospatial community... |
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Geospatial, Community Base | 1 day 5 hours ago | |
| Hi Diane, thanks for sharing this valuable resource. It'd be great if you could add it to The Inventory, a wiki-style database for conservation technology tools, R&D projects... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Data Management & Mobilisation, Software Development | 23 hours 59 minutes ago | |
| Hi all,My name is David, based in Zurich, Switzerland. I run Techno-Merce, where we build satellite detection of illegal mining and land-cover change: radar fused with optical... |
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Community Base | 4 hours 14 minutes ago | |
| Hello everyone,Great idea! I would also join and happily-actively contribute to a HD group on technology. I am working for Callisto - Wildlife and Nature Conservation Society... |
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Citizen Science, Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data Management & Mobilisation, Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Sustainable Fisheries, Wildlife Crime | 1 day 2 hours ago | |
| My Problem is I'm a great builder but a terrible marketer and I haven't found any teams to use it yet.I do have experience with creating simple tools and making it easy for non-... |
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Connectivity | 1 day 2 hours ago | |
| With the American Security Drone Act and Buy America requirements, and recent guidance from state DOTs indicating that drones not on the... |
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Drones | 1 day 9 hours ago | |
| Well, this has been a year! It started (as most years do) with great intentions and enthusiasm from the Open Source Solutions group... |
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Open Source Solutions | 2 days 15 hours ago | |
| Airborne synthetic aperture radar for detection of snares sounds really effective! I would love to learn more about this. Dogs are also amazing a detecting snares but of course... |
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AI for Conservation, Drones, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Wildlife Crime | 3 days 8 hours ago |
Learn & Teach
Browse our selection of self-led conservation technology courses. Learn at your own pace, connect with other participants, and create new courses of your own.
Connected Conservation Foundation scales technology to protect nature—for people and planet. We work with partners to equip Protected Areas with digital tools, boost local community education and create local tech-based careers.
Latest courses
FREE Drone & GIS Mini Course from GeoWing Academy
FREE Drone & GIS Mini Course from GeoWing Academy
FREE Drone & GIS Mini Course from GeoWing Academy
QGIS For Wildlife Crime Data Analysis
QGIS For Wildlife Crime Data Analysis
QGIS For Wildlife Crime Data Analysis
Protected Area Technician (PAT) Training
Protected Area Technician (PAT) Training
Protected Area Technician (PAT) Training
Fantastic Fields: Field Data Collection the Smart Way
Fantastic Fields: Field Data Collection the Smart Way
Fantastic Fields: Field Data Collection the Smart Way
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Computational biologist working on the application of DNA sequencing technologies in the conservation of endangered species
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- @Nanfuka
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GIS analyst and researcher
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Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
Wildlife biologist, Ecuador.
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- @kwazikhumalo
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I'm a Certified Drone Pilot, with BVLOS Rating and a Drone Solutions Advisor.
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- @iska1818
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nature nerd, leopard and eagle lover
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- @chryyy
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Ecologist wannabe
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Giles Farmer
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Project manager, Ocean Lover, Wildlife Protector, Im here to learn as much as I can as I try to make a career move into the world of conservation.
Mariam Omari Bwanga
- @Mariam_bwanga
Mariam Omari Bwanga a BSc Wildlife Management graduate (SUA, 2024) and conservation practitioner with experience in wildlife research, biodiversity monitoring, protected area management, and giraffe population studies using Capture Mark Recapture techniques at Grumeti Fund (RISE)
Eline Maleko
- @Eline_REGINALD
Wildlife Biologist exploring the intersection of conservation and technology through camera trap research, ecological data analysis, and biodiversity monitoring.
Lasanthi Wijayathunge
- @Lasanthi
I'm a conservation biologist from Sri Lanka, currently based in Turku, Finland, preparing to begin doctoral research at the University of Helsinki focused on the Sri Lankan leopard (Panthera pardus kotiya).
Lilith Janevska
- @lilithdotgov
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Mathematical Biologist based in the US | Creating tools today for the science of tomorrow!
Jim Jeffers
- @jimjeffers
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CTO and co-founder of eDNA Explorer
Ideas & Updates
Two days of collaborative hacking focused on Machine Annotation Services
24 July 2026
Wildlife Acoustics is proud to offer a quarterly grant program that supports the advancement of wildlife research, habitat monitoring, and environmental conservation worldwide. Scientists may apply for a product grant...
23 July 2026
$1,000 grants to pilot AudioMoth bioacoustics on Bumicerts, GainForest's platform for nature stewards
22 July 2026
Community Spaces
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Conservation tech work doesn't stop after data is collected in the field. Equally as important to success is navigating data management and processing tools. For the many community members who deal with enormous datasets, this group will be an invaluable resource to trade advice, discuss workflows and tools, and share what works for you.
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- BAM (Biodiversity Around Me) widget
I am happy to introduce and share our new project BAM, to make open biodiversity data easily accessible to everyone, everywhere!
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Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in the field to analyse information collected by wildlife conservationists, from camera traps and satellite images to audio recordings. AI can learn how to identify which photos out of thousands contain rare species; or pinpoint an animal call out of hours of field recordings - hugely reducing the manual labour required to collect vital conservation data. The AI For Conservation group is intended to unite and inspire all WILDLABS community members—whether already involved in AI for conservation, or not—to understand how to use and/or directly contribute to open-source research and development efforts.
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- Deep Voice - A Free Online Platform for AI-Based Marine Mammal Sound Detection and Classification
Passive acoustic monitoring floods marine researchers with data that can take months to annotate by hand, and the AI models that could help have long required Python setup, GitHub repos, and complex config files. Funded by the WILDLABS Awards 2025, Deep Voice removes that barrier with a free, public web app that turns marine mammal sound detection into a simple drag-and-drop task.
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- Boring Fund Report for Creating Global Open-Access Ground-Truth Datasets for Insect Monitoring
Improving the computer vision detection model for the Mothbox, an automatic insect monitoring tool from Dinalab
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- Custom Hydrophone Records Dolphins
Welcome to the official group forum for our virtual course, Build Your Own Data Logger. This is your space to engage with course instructors Akiba and Jacinta from Freaklabs, find help and resources for each module, collaborate and chat with your fellow course participants, and share your progress on your own Data Logger project!
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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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- Camera Trap Suggestions for Time-lapse Seabird Monitoring?
Looking for a place to discuss camera trap troubleshooting, compare models, collaborate with members working with other technologies like machine learning and bioacoustics, or share and exchange data from your camera trap research? Get involved in our Camera Traps group! All are welcome whether you are new to camera trapping, have expertise from the field to share, or are curious about how your skill sets can help those working with camera traps.
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- Practical Considerations for Camera Trap Photography
Trail Cameras & Custom Camera Traps: Technology, Ethics & Strategies for Success
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- TrailCam - Browser tool for preparing trail camera observations
Anyone can become a citizen scientist - even experts! If you're excited about exploring new areas of conservation tech, contributing to projects, or developing and launching your own citizen science projects or apps, this is the group for you.
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- Synthesis of Insights / Learning session 14: Rights of Nature by Tribal and First Nations
Synthesis of insights of our 14th online learning session, using dialogue to explore the workings, developments, (im)possibilities, and emerging insights of diverse approaches and praxes for Co-creation with the More-than-Human world
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Behind the Buzz Season 1
From Data to Decisions
Join us for Season 1 of Behind the Buzz, a new series where we break down complex topics with leading experts in a friendly, open space. This season, we’ll demystify key global policy processes and explore how to engage with them to support integrating critical conservation data at national and global scales, using animal movement as a lens to ground discussions.
Find these events and more in our conservation technology calendar!