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Hey everyone,Do you have bulk camera trap imagery or are you looking to set up camera traps to collect wildlife data? Camera traps are undoubtedly one of the most useful and...
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Hi everybody, Im Alex González, a consultant and researcher in sustainable tourism and conservation. I'm currently consulting a conservation organisation for the development...
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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...
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Discussion / AI for Conservation | Camera Traps
Hello everyone,I am looking for insight on the feasibility of identifying seabirds from photos taken at sea (such as these...
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| I would add some "lower-priced" brands to the @carlybatist list...like Apeman, Cococam, and Blaze Video, that have cameras with WiFi. As for more established brands in photo... |
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East Africa Community, Biologging | 10 hours 43 minutes ago | |
| Hi everyone! After our big launch of messaging last time, this week has mostly been minor fixes and tidying stuff up but I decided we'd be transparent about all these... |
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| I haven't tried anything like a floating mount for camera traps so would love to stay posted on how it goes. It would open up a lot of possibilities, but it sounds quite... |
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Camera Traps | 1 day 20 hours ago | |
| Awesome stuff!! Interested in what kind of recorders you are using and how are you sync'ing them for the TDOA? |
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| At Ol Pejeta, through the Kifaru Rising project, we have 19 FLIR thermal cameras that we use to address poaching as a conservation challenge.The cameras have been deployed along a... |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict, Camera Traps, Sensors | 2 days 12 hours ago | |
| Thank you so much Netty, I really enjoyed it.Good luck to you all with your work.Keep well! |
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AI for Conservation, East Africa Community | 2 days 14 hours ago | |
| Hi Carly, Thanks for digging up my previous thread (I couldn't find it). I guess I've been asking this question for a few years now!I had also heard of grants from car... |
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Community Base | 3 days 10 hours ago | |
| Hey Natalia,In addition to what Carly has listed, there's also BirdLasser- You can check it out :) |
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Citizen Science | 3 days 18 hours ago | |
| If you're looking to identify collaborators - probably lots of organizations listed in the Conservation Tech Directory would be interested (quick prelim search yields orgs like... |
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Marine Conservation, Open Source Solutions | 4 days 3 hours ago | |
| So for someone very much not on the tech-side of conservation tech.... kinetic energy harvesting collars are using the kinetic energy from the animal's movements to power the... |
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Biologging, Emerging Tech, Sensors | 4 days 3 hours ago | |
| I think this would be awesome!! I worked at my university’s graduate career center (focused on PhD/Master’s students) for 2 years and it really changed my whole perspective on non... |
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Community Base, Early Career | 4 days 4 hours ago |
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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.
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