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Writing Bootcamp: What content type fits my story?
Ellie Warren
In this series, we'll share tips from our editorial team to help you get started writing great case studies, articles, and blog posts right here on WILDLABS! In this first post, Ellie Warren shares how understanding...
1 July 2022
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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...
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This UN Knowledge Dialogue/High-Level Political Forum Side Event will explore a set of promising scientific and technological innovations that are contributing to assessing and conserving nature, and can potentially...
5 July 2022
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Announcing Our Upcoming Sustainability Series
Ellie Warren
WILDLABS is seeking your stories and thoughts on sustainability challenges and solutions in conservation tech
30 June 2022
Careers / Marine Conservation | Protected Area Management Tools + 1
We are looking for an international consultant to develop and implement the SMART system for São Tomé and Príncipe terrestrial and marine ecosystems, in Portuguese
1 July 2022
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| Awesome! We were wondering about writing on WildLabs now that you can publish articles to specific topics. My writing skills are a bit rusty too. Looking forward to the article... |
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| The Bioacoustics Stack Exchange has reached the Beta stage and is ... |
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| Anything & everything! Nothing specific comes to mind, but excited to hear about how we can better facilitate interdisciplinarity (is that a word? maybe? ...) in bioacoustics! |
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| Hi Lucas, My top advice to you and anyone else looking for a Masters project on conservation tech is to look at how Harry went about seeking input and partners for his... |
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| This is so interesting. I've been involved on the other side from an NGO perspective, helping write the conservation tech job descriptions and sitting on the interview panels and... |
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| Just posting the link to the Bioacoustics Stack Exchange post where I asked this as well, some other people gave code as well (though I haven't had time to try it as it has been a... |
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Acoustic Monitoring | 1 day 13 hours ago | |
| Hi just bringing this thread back up to attention: the bioacoustics stackexchange is now up and running in beta form, and could use as much participation as possible to ensure its... |
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| Quick report on what we're doing on the technical side:First of all, so sorry that this has happened. We worked hard on spam prevention on the registration system and after lots... |
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| Hi all,I can't believe it's been 3 years since I started this thread, where has the time gone!I'm hoping to resurrect it now because I'm actually mid-development of the security... |
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Camera Traps | 2 days 19 hours ago | |
| Hi Natalia!Great examples of mobile devices and web apps for global citizen science projects have been shared by others. For a bit of context, eBird is the citizen science... |
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Citizen Science | 3 days 14 hours ago | |
| Hi Kate,I highly appreciate your feedback. I love your idea of using wild ID .I have registered for the wild ID and am looking forward to using it in future. I wont hesitate to... |
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Camera Traps, East Africa Community | 4 days 15 hours ago |
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Writing Bootcamp: Questions for Writers
Ellie Warren
In this series, we'll share tips from our editorial team to help you get started writing great case studies, articles, and blog posts right here on WILDLABS! In this second post, Ellie Warren shares the questions that...
6 July 2022
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This UN Knowledge Dialogue/High-Level Political Forum Side Event will explore a set of promising scientific and technological innovations that are contributing to assessing and conserving nature, and can potentially...
5 July 2022
Article
Writing Bootcamp: What content type fits my story?
Ellie Warren
In this series, we'll share tips from our editorial team to help you get started writing great case studies, articles, and blog posts right here on WILDLABS! In this first post, Ellie Warren shares how understanding...
1 July 2022
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Postdoc: Environmental Remote Sensing
30 June 2022
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Research Associate in Data Fusion for Forest Monitoring & Modelling
30 June 2022
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Postdoc: Remote sensing of invasive alien trees & ecosystem degradation in Cape Floristic Region
30 June 2022
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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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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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- New article (Reuters): Orca stuck in river to be lured to sea using drone with loudspeakers
"A drone emitting orca sounds will be used in attempt to guide the animal, whose health is fast deteriorating"
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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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Sustainability in Conservation Tech
Ellie Warren
28 June 2022
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