Our Top Picks
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
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
Article / Community Base | Early Career + 2
We're delighted to announce the launch of our fourth Women in Conservation Technology Programme, in partnership with the Grumeti Fund and with support from the JRS Biodiversity Foundation. Join us in welcoming the 2026...
23 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
We are excited to announce our new multilingual translation functionality on WILDLABS, starting with Spanish. Read more about our new content translation options and AI translation abilities.
23 April 2026
Conversations & Questions
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| The system recording thermal 25 fps h264 video continuously. I set the cleanup based on the disk size. I’m currently using a 2TB SSD which I think might be able to store a month... |
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AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Camera Traps, Data Management & Mobilisation, Geospatial, Protected Area Management Tools, Sensors, Software Development | 1 minute 1 second ago | |
| Jumping in since this is basically what I've spent the last two years fighting with. About 9 units in the field now, some pushing close to two years of continuous deployment, and... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community | 6 minutes 51 seconds ago | |
| Thanks Sebastian - was a pleasure to talk to you! |
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Community Base | 12 hours 9 minutes ago | |
| Good evening, Mr. Jorge.The tool is currently under development; it makes submitting data to iNaturalist much faster, since you don't have to fill out all the fields. |
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Data Management & Mobilisation, Camera Traps, Citizen Science | 20 hours 46 minutes ago | |
| I really recommend GardePro. They are not too expensive and very resilient in the field. |
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Camera Traps, Animal Movement, Community Base, Early Career, East Africa Community, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Coexistence | 21 hours 13 minutes ago | |
| This is a great resource! |
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Acoustics | 12 hours 29 minutes ago | |
| Hello, I am Jorge! I have been around this community for a while, but never been here. Good to be part of the group! |
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Community Base | 21 hours 20 minutes ago | |
| Awesome! |
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Community Base | 21 hours 29 minutes ago | |
| Hi Bob,Thanks so much for that incredibly detailed reply! That is extremely useful. I will look into all of those cameras. Thanks for sharing your solution for the Browning... |
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Camera Traps, Early Career | 2 days 3 hours ago | |
| Hi Garin, If you're successful, please add it to the growing list of conservation drone projects on the Global Conservation Drone Map:https://www.gctdf.org/map-conservation-... |
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Drones | 2 days 2 hours ago | |
| Thanks Henri,This sounds quite promising. So no Pi Zero at all, instead, I use Pico or ESP32. I am thinking about using the Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 Sense with FOMO any thoughts... |
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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects | 2 days 4 hours ago | |
| Would love to talk. We build the AI model MiewID (currently v4.1) and Wildbook, which has been deployed for jaguars on Whiskerbook.org. Happy to share ideas. Data cleaning and... |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data Management & Mobilisation | 2 days 18 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
Connect & Collaborate
- @carolynmason3
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I love the outdoors and writing code.
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ArcelorMittal
Researcher willing to apply Conservation Technologies in Mining
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Hi, I am the executive director of Fundación ProAves here in Colombia
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- @Calotriton
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PhD in ecology, passionate about herpetology and data
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enthusiastic conservation biologise
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Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCru)
Researcher with background in large carnivore ecology and conservation tech
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Latest members
Eric Kelian Sadera
- @Kelian.
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I am a Kenyan safari guide and Wildlife & Tourism Management student passionate about wildlife conservation, sustainable tourism, and conservation technology. I enjoy learning, sharing field experiences, and supporting efforts to protect wildlife and natural ecosystems.
Risma Daulay
- @Ima
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Together with Warna Asri Untuk Alam (WANA), driving change through storytelling and climate campaigns by retelling forgotten stories, restoring respect for what has always existed, and learning from the people, landscapes, and biodiversity~
Sherri Harvey
- @sherricoyote
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Sherri teaches in Silicon Valley, and understands that storytelling leads to transformative learning that encourages curiosity, critical thinking, and global engagement, and knows that storytelling has the power to challenge assumptions, foster empathy, and inspire social change.
Mahli Bako
- @Mahli
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conservation enthusiast| Reseaecher| Data Analyst
Carlos Mendoza
- @cmento
I'm Biologist and executive director developing a nature sanctuary in Patagonia. Specializing in the field deployment of conservation tech for extreme environments, with a focus on remote sensing, acoustic monitoring, telemetry, LoRa systems, and microelectronics.
Annie Newell-Fugate
- @ZOOWELL
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Research Scientist at Texas A&M University and Executive Director at the Zoo and Wildlife Endocrine Laboratory (ZOO WELL). Over 20 years of experience in zoo and wildlife animal reproduction and endocrinology.
Ideas & Updates
We have just one week left to reach our US$7,000 goal. Thanks to Ma Earth's matching campaign, every donation is multiplied 4:1, helping us protect jaguars and restore the Brazilian Cerrado.
13 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
Join us to hear from experts who will share how environmental DNA (eDNA) is transforming wildlife research, biodiversity monitoring and conservation around the world.
7 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!