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Introducing The Inventory!
Jake Burton
The Inventory is your one-stop shop for conservation technology tools, organisations, and R&D projects. Start contributing to it now!
1 May 2024
Article / Community Base | Acoustics + 22
The Inventory User Guide
Jake Burton
Read in detail about how to use The Inventory, our new living directory of conservation technology tools, organisations, and R&D projects.
1 May 2024
Article / Community Base | Early Career + 2
It has been an extraordinary year supporting and growing the regional East African Conservation Technology Community at WILDLABS. We've made great strides and unlocked exciting opportunities for our community as we...
29 April 2024
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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
Article / Community Base | East Africa Community
InConversation: Season 1*Final Episode*
Esther Githinji
Tap into our new and exciting community-focused conversation series! In this first season of InConversation, we're in East Africa with host Esther Githinji. Listen in as we chat one-on-one with your favourite...
30 April 2024
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Akiba
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| Hi @sakoarts, The AI for Forest Elephants project sounds great. We are currently at the early stages of hardware development right now, so haven't started recording the rumbles... |
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Acoustics | 4 hours 16 minutes ago | |
| Yes, exactly! Alec and I are working together on this. |
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AI for Conservation | 5 hours 3 minutes ago | |
| Hi Folks,I'm interested in being the group leader for the Remote Sensing & GIS group, but it would be great to have a co-lead.... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS | 23 hours 4 minutes ago | |
| Hi Andew,Whatever became of your book? Also have you seen jupyterbook.org and mystmd.org? Both are free and open source software for publishing articles and books.Best,Vance |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education | 23 hours 10 minutes ago | |
| I didn't measure the difference in energy consumption whilst it's waiting between recordings. I'll do that. Having it turn off after a few minutes is a good idea.The... |
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Acoustics | 1 day 4 hours ago | |
| Just coming in here to say, neat project. Are you working on the elk herds in the Pacheco Pass area or further north? (I'm in Monterey Bay, CA) |
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Citizen Science | 1 day 23 hours ago | |
| Honestly, no (at least not for wildlife applications).I suspect for the manufacturing community it's a balancing act, and I am not confident that the manufacturing community has... |
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Biologging, Marine Conservation | 1 day 23 hours ago | |
| Hi WILDLABS communityRecently I've been noticing some signs that our local beach in St Andrews, Scotland may be having raw sewage... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Citizen Science | 1 day 23 hours ago | |
| Thank you for elaborating, @evebohnett ! And for the heads ups! |
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Camera Traps, Drones | 2 days 13 hours ago | |
| Great initiative!Just a short note: any position to distinguish garbage from real snares?Best!Lufer@Landfeelings |
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AI for Conservation, Drones, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Wildlife Crime | 2 days 16 hours ago | |
| Undoubted things will quickly evolve from just "straight" ChatGPTn, BARD, ClaudeAI, etc "standard" models, to more specialized Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) , where... |
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AI for Conservation, Emerging Tech | 4 days 19 hours ago |
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Nikesh is a civic entrepreneur, open data advocate and tech researcher. He is the co-founder and CEO of Open Knowledge Nepal, a non-profit civic tech organization comprised of openness aficionados.
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I build sensing and perceiving hardware that is designed to address issues that matter to me. That ranges from assistive technologies, to conservation ecology, and connecting individuals with place and each other.
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Thanks to WILDLABS. This community is what exactly matches to my interest in Nature Conservation as IT professional.
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Researcher in the Conservation Evidence Group. I mainly focus on invasive species, conservation effectiveness, evidence synthesis and AI
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Join us for the Camera Traps, AI, and Ecology workshop, part of an international series focusing on wildlife monitoring using AI and camera traps. This workshop, held both live and online, unites camera trap data...
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In 1987, sustainability was defined by the United Nations Brundtland Commission as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”In 1987,...
7 May 2024
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Save the Elephants is seeking a Principal Investigator for our Elephant Collective Behaviour Project. This role will spearhead research initiatives using cutting-edge video analysis tools to study elephant group...
1 May 2024
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InConversation: Season 1*Final Episode*
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In 1987, sustainability was defined by the United Nations Brundtland Commission as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”In 1987, sustainability was defined by the United Nations Brundtland Commission as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
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EarthRanger: All you need to know!
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