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Discussion / Community Base
We’re so excited to announce that our next Editorial Series will focus on sustainability in conservation tech! As the follow-up to our first Editorial...
27 June 2022
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Discussion / East Africa Community
The overriding objective of many economies in East Africa is to progress the nations with more efficient systems in the different sectors, to achieve sustainability. With...
29 June 2022
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Discussion / Acoustic Monitoring
1.5 TB micro SD
Robin Sandfort
Now let us use this monster 1.5 TB microSD Card with our audiomoth ;-) ...
28 June 2022
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Discussion / Sensors
The battery challenge - how to reduce battery waste
Femke Hilderink
Hi everyone, So much great stuff is being developed here! Currently, the use of technology in conservation has become quite normal. We are all familiar with camera traps and...
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Discussion / Climate Change
We’re exploring big questions in conservation tech sustainability as we build our next editorial series focusing on that very subject. As a global community focusing on creating...
28 June 2022
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| Hi all!Dropping back in to share that we're thinking about how supply chain issues tie into our upcoming series on conservation tech sustainability. We've started a Twitter thread... |
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| Realizing I'm hopping onto this thread late, but I think one of the easiest ways to handle batteries is simply to work to minimize energy consumption--identify areas where we can... |
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Sensors | 7 seconds ago | |
| Most of what I have done has been in a couple areas: * Sensor re-use and repair, to the extent possible. This is an area where, especially with acoustic sensors, replaceable... |
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Climate Change | 5 minutes 18 seconds ago | |
| Great news Dan! We will be giving the model a go on some of our new eradication projects soon |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps | 9 hours 20 minutes ago | |
| The overriding objective of many economies in East Africa is to progress the nations with more efficient systems in the different sectors, to achieve sustainability. With... |
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East Africa Community | 12 hours 34 minutes ago | |
| Hmm 20kg raised 5m would only buy you less than half an AA battery assuming 100% efficiency. Lame, so much for that idea. |
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Acoustic Monitoring | 14 hours 20 minutes ago | |
| Hello Everyone, My role at Ceres Tag is the Quality & Accreditation Manager. I’m here to better understand where our devices would be used and answer any questions you... |
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Community Base | 15 hours 12 minutes ago | |
| Hey all! I mentioned that on Friday, we'd update this post with all the sustainability conversations happening across our platform, but I wanted to flag this great Twitter... |
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Community Base | 19 hours 47 minutes ago | |
| Hi Meredith,Here's a little more information about the Arribada cameras. They are solar powered and received enough power in the Antarctic winter continue photographing. We... |
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Camera Traps | 1 day 4 hours ago | |
| It continues to be difficult to source microcontrollers due to global supply chain issues, but Open Acoustic Devices have managed to source a small supply for an initial... |
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Acoustic Monitoring, Marine Conservation | 1 day 9 hours ago | |
| Hi Lindy, ODM has a steep learning curve but is fantastic once you understand it. I have much better results than from commerical services, although we were just stitching fairly... |
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Drones | 1 day 10 hours ago | |
| hi guys,so i was working on a map and i was trying to pick certain points from earth ranger on loading them to arc pro the projection shifted to another area we have looked into... |
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Remote Sensing & GIS, East Africa Community | 1 day 10 hours ago |
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A new web portal for annotating bird sounds has been opened called Bird Sounds Global (BSG). It is part of project LIFEPLAN, and its key objective is to develop global, automated software for bird sound identification.
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- New app aims to take a bite out of illegal shark fin trade
Powered by artificial intelligence, a new app called Fin Finder enables customs inspectors to take a photo of a shark or ray fin and identify it within seconds. Developed by Conservation International in partnership with Singapore’s National Parks Board, and supported by Microsoft and other partners, this app could help governments confiscate illegal animal parts that are hidden in plain sight.
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Our fourth and final meetup in Season 4 explored the future of movement ecology, including tools that could change the game and questions we might not yet have thought to ask. On June 8, we heard short talks from leading experts Christian Rutz, Ran Nathan, Martin Wikelski, and Tanya Berger-Wolf, followed by open discussion and community exchange.
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Mongabay article on the recently launched Centre for Wildlife Forensics in Singapore, noting their successes so far in catching wildlife traffickers and uncovering trafficking routes
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Virtual Meetups Season 4
This season, we’re bringing together leading engineers, conservationists, and academics to explore the future of technology in movement ecology and ask where exactly investment is needed to catapult this field forward.
The fourth and final meetup of Season 4 will explore Future Questions & Tools in Movement Ecology and will be held on Wednesday, June 8 at 3:00 PM BST / 10:00 AM EDT. We'll hear short talks from leading experts Christian Rutz, Ran Nathan, Martin Wikelski, and Tanya Berger-Wolf, followed by open discussion and community exchange.
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