Conservation technology is already transforming our understanding of climate change's impacts on key environments and species around the world, allowing us to monitor populations and their changing ranges, observe habitat destruction and events like coral bleaching over time, and study the aftermath of major climate disasters like bushfires.
Because climate change is a global challenge shared by all of us, with no species, habitat, or continent completely untouched by its impacts, it's more important than ever to unite the conservation tech users and makers who are already gathering critical data and forming innovative ideas to help us meet these challenges.
Whatever conservation technology you work with, and whatever your expertise may be, there is a place for you in the fight against climate change. This group is a place to brainstorm and collaborate, share experiences and commiserate about the challenges ahead, find reasons to be optimistic about technology's role in this fight, and hopefully spark ideas that can make a positive impact for the species and habitats that we protect.
Wondering how to get started in this group? Here are some examples of topics to kick things off:
- Do you have a case study or project update related to climate change impacts? (For example, have your study species' migratory patterns changed because of changing weather patterns? Did your Audiomoths or camera traps capture data on a climate-driven disaster? Have challenges like melting sea ice altered your research timelines or made it more difficult to study your species?)
- Do you have a question about how your expertise could fit into innovating climate change solutions? Or do you have data to share that could help someone else understand climate change impacts or address challenges?
- Do you have an innovative idea that could help combat climate change, but need input or skills from other members with expertise in different areas or with different tools?
- Do you have a great resource to share that could help other members learn something new about climate change technology?
This group is new to the WILDLABS platform and set to grow - we can't wait to see what resources you'll share, what projects you'll start, and what solutions you'll find together!
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AI integration architect, AI product manager. I've built the front-end of this website 😁
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Founder & CEO of RoboticsCats, a machine vision startup. Our AI wildfire detection SaaS is protecting forests & communities in Asia, Europe & LATAM.
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Founder of Enduata Emaa community based organisation , Conservationist and advocate of climate action
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Paul Edonga is from the Indigenous Pastoralist Tribes of Northern Kenya. A seasoned Leader in indigenous-led conservation of Endangered Beisa Oryx, African Small Antelopes their habitats & Dryland Forests. He's the founder of Save Beisa Oryx Community Resilience Trust-SBOC
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Working with IPLCs and applying data/geospatial tools for a conservation/carbon forestry project in the Philippines 🌿
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Neuroscientist & engineer transitioning to conservation tech. I have experience working with large imaging datasets, pose estimation and positional tracking, and machine learning. Looking to get involved with GIS, remote sensing, and AI for conservation.
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Join our multi-national team at the AI for Biodiversity Change Global Climate Center! We're hiring a Research Data Manager & Tech Coordinator at Ohio State. Support cutting-edge research on climate change &...
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How Earth Blox reduced biodiversity impact analysis from 2 months to 1 hour for a global bank.
20 February 2024
The primary focus of the research is to explore how red deer movements, space use, habitat selection and foraging behaviour change during the wolf recolonization process.
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TagRanger® is a state-of-the-art wildlife finding, monitoring and tracking solution for research, conservation and environmental professionals. With superior configurability for logging data, reporting location and...
23 November 2023
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I am to present a conference paper this June in Bulgaria. Title of the paper is "Integrating geospatial techniques into learners'... |
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Climate Change, Community Base, East Africa Community, Conservation Tech Training and Education | 1 day 19 hours ago | |
Thank you Carly, I will definitely take a look. |
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Acoustics, Biologging, Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Remote Sensing & GIS, Software and Mobile Apps | 1 week 1 day ago | |
Hi Danilo. you seem very passionate about this initiative which is a good start.It is an interesting coincidence that I am starting another project for the coral reefs in the... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Biologging, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Drones, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Open Source Solutions, Sensors, Software and Mobile Apps, Wildlife Crime | 1 month 3 weeks ago | |
I dont have anything written up but I can tell what parts we used and how we tested.Its pretty straightforward, we used this M10 Enclosure Vent from Blue Robotics: Along with... |
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Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Acoustics, Camera Traps, Climate Change, East Africa Community, Marine Conservation, Open Source Solutions, Protected Area Management Tools | 2 months 1 week ago | |
Thank you for this! Will take a look. |
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Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Remote Sensing & GIS | 2 months 2 weeks ago | |
Hi folks! Happy 2024 and thanks in advance for your patience in case I over-used tags. If you’re using any form of natural language... |
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AI for Conservation, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Data management and processing tools, Early Career, East Africa Community, Emerging Tech, Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps, Wildlife Crime, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 2 months 2 weeks ago | |
Will you accept personal/hobbyist focused on conservation on their small plots of land (10-100 acres)?I would, and know others, who would happily pay more than the official... |
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Camera Traps, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Sensors, Wildlife Crime | 3 months 1 week ago | |
Hi Eva, Me and my colleagues run a small NGO based on Yogyakarta in Indonesia, although our projects are spread around the country. One of our active project is working with... |
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Stefano Puliti joined Variety Hour to share his work using 3D photogrammetric data from UAVs for pre- and post-harvest inventory of forest... |
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Climate Change, Data management and processing tools, Drones, Remote Sensing & GIS | 5 months 3 weeks ago | |
Makes sense if you have the cash... |
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Hey everyone!I am brand new to conservation technology and I am trying to find my way. I currently work in a different field and want to... |
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AI for Conservation, Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Drones, Early Career, Earth Observation 101 Community, Emerging Tech, Open Source Solutions, Remote Sensing & GIS, Sensors, Software and Mobile Apps | 6 months 2 weeks ago | |
Hi all! Our sustainability series, Sustained Effort, officially wrapped this month. The finale shared on WILDLABS focuses on this exact topic - finding the smallest possible ways... |
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Sustained Effort: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma
21 June 2023 9:00am
The Wildlife Society Conference
19 June 2023 5:59am
AI Can Fight Climate Change — If It's Deployed Properly
16 June 2023 10:54am
Our friends at the Climate Change AI community featured in Business Insider, talking about the role AI can play in climate change.
Green software report sheds light on carbon-aware operations
16 June 2023 10:52am
Green Software Foundation has just launched its first State of Green Software Report, which highlights that – without industry action – software emissions could rise to 14% of the world’s carbon footprint by 2040.
Improving battery life in tech tools
13 June 2023 12:09am
Sustained Effort: Out with the New, In with the Old
14 June 2023 10:00am
Sofar increases battery life of montioring buoys with sleep setting
13 June 2023 12:08am
This article covers how Sofar's Spotter monitoring buoys can collect data for longer periods of time by improving battery life. According to this article, "GPS Sleep turns off Spotter’s GPS sensor during sampling dwell periods, increasing its battery life by at least 25% and significantly extending the duration of its deployment at high latitudes."
Register your #WorldEnvironmentDay Event or Activity and Share it with the World
5 June 2023 1:07pm
It's World Environment Day! This year the focus is on solutions to plastic pollution under the campaign #BeatPlasticPollution.
How are you getting involved to solve plastic pollution using conservation technology?
Current and future steps toward sustainability in conservation tech?
28 June 2022 6:24pm
29 June 2022 5:28am
At Ceres Tag, it is important that we are sustainable and have little to no impact on the environment.
- The battery life of the tag is 10 years and is recharged via solar panels. One battery for the life of the tag.
- No off-animal re-charging required
- No additional batteries
- The only commercial, direct to satellite, animal monitoring ear tag
- No onsite infrastructure to set up or take down
- No towers or other infrastructure such as receiving stations, radios or large power systems required
- Biosecurity and pandemic safe.
- Ceres Tag staff do not need to visit sites where the tags will be applied
- Our packaging is recyclable.
- Our e-commerce platform, allows for direct purchase from cerestag.com.
- Which means, direct to manufacture order with little or no paperwork for ordering.
By Ceres Tag designing the systems and tags in this manner, It will also allow for your carbon footprint to be minimal on the ground once you apply the tags. You can be anywhere in the world and view animals, without being in the same location
29 June 2022 8:42pm
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 microphones have been a godsend that have really enabled us to extend the lifespan of older units
* Rechargeable batteries for some deployments. These don't travel well and don't have quite the life of alkalines, but for our sensors that are easily serviced (local to us) we use rechargeables to minimize waste. This was originally a long-term cost-cutting measure but has also let us minimize e-waste as a convenient side effect.
More generally, in my thinking about climate, it's worth it to emphasize that the carbon budget isn't zero, it's just finite. There are carbon-intensive activities that are sometimes worth it, it's mostly a question of how do we evaluate that. In the case of conservation tech work, if we can use our knowledge and skills to, for example, minimize bird or bat take from renewable energy in ways that improve generation uptime or reduce community backlash, that can more than offset (in conceptual, if not concrete terms--I haven't done the math on this yet) a few higher-emissions research or conservation activities. Of course, we should work to minimize our impact however we can, but our sector is such a very small portion of the global economy and so our contribution to the broader decarbonization push is likely a better use of our collective time and resources.
1 June 2023 5:33am
Nearly the year anniversary - Just 29 days away from when I first wrote this reply! We have made some major updates and also we are bringing forward new products
All of Ceres Tags products are still direct to satellite with no towers.
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New Product!
We listened to our customers and brought out Ceres Ranch. The tag has all the same features as Ceres Trace yet, it is redeployable. It is as simple removing it from the current animals, and applying it to the next animal.
- Reusable where you can use in multiple projects. This means over 3 years, you could have over 1000 days of insights.
- Transfer ownership to the next owner
We would love to see researches getting out as much information and insights as possible. These tags are made for deployment and not to sit in a draw. If you do have tags and want to run through on how to transfer ownership to another researcher, please reach out.
Ceres Wild activity monitoring is an algorithm that has been developed by sampling the pattern of behaviour of cattle, this is then expressed on a scale of 1-63 with 1 meaning low activity and 63 meaning extremely high. With each data point you receive you will receive a value of 1 – 63 which represents the activity of that animal. Fast moving animals will have results that are expressed on the higher end of the scale while slower animals will sit on the lower end.
New Algorithm
Recently we have added the algorithm to Ceres Trace and Ceres Ranch tags. What algorithm you ask. Well one that Australia's CSIRO and NSW DPI has been working on for the past 15 years! The algorithm is called Pasture Feed Intake (hit the link to find out more)
- Following 15 years of research and development and thousands of hours of testings, Ceres Tag's Pasture Feed Intake (PFI) is available on Ceres Trace and Ceres Ranch tags now. Along with up to 4 standard data packets, Ceres Trace & Ceres Ranch tags will now receive and additional daily summary packet with Pasture Feed Intake information.
Wildlife and rural crime researches
With a lot of projects and researching now impacting wildlife, livestock and human interactions, I wanted to bring to your attention the recent program on rural crime - VIDEO: Satellite Stock Squad: A new weapon helping to combat livestock theft
Climasens: Using technology to understand and respond to climate change
30 May 2023 12:36pm
Climasens’ platform is now being used by Australian Councils to support disaster resilience efforts. It’s inaugural product, HeatSens, is being used to bridge the gap between emergency management and climate change preparedness to better inform efforts and investment towards climate change adaptation, especially in areas where vulnerable populations exist.
Creating digital solutions to help people and nature thrive: Lessons from the frontline
29 May 2023 7:02am
31 May 2023 10:51pm
10 AI for the Planet Projects you should be excited about
25 May 2023 11:07am
Data Visualization in Service of Coral Reefs in Micronesia
17 May 2023 8:53pm
Climate Watch: The Past, Present and Potential Futures of Climate
12 May 2023 4:14pm
2022 Environmental Sustainability Report | Microsoft CSR
12 May 2023 11:43am
interesting read on how Microsoft is progressing on their 2030 goals, and how different parts of the sustainability work fit under thier three spheres of influence. Curious to see it in context of winding up/detriecting the ai for earth programme.
GRO is the story of what on Earth is going on
5 May 2023 1:50pm
Silverstrand Capital's Biodiversity Accelerator+ Programme - Deadline Extended to 5th May 2023
2 May 2023 3:24pm
Congo Basin activity?
30 March 2023 9:14pm
25 April 2023 5:08pm
greetings!
i sent you a PM regarding this, feel free to contact me however is most convenient for you -
regards,
chris
The GSMA Innovation Fund for Climate Resilience and Adaptation 2.0
21 April 2023 11:32am
Rapid due diligence for forest carbon projects
21 April 2023 10:51am
Climate Change Adaptation, Mitigation and Resilience Training
17 April 2023 10:16am
The 59th Annual Meeting of Illinois Chapter of The Wildlife Society
12 April 2023 5:24am
Due diligence for Nature Based Solutions
5 April 2023 3:38pm
Climate Change Manager, Arm
27 March 2023 3:58pm
Catch up with The Variety Hour: March 2023
23 March 2023 11:09am
Climate crisis drives a rise in human-wildlife conflicts
1 March 2023 10:51pm
New article about how climate change and human-wildlife conflict go hand-in-hand. Would be interesting to hear from our climate change and HWC groups about how climate scientists and community members who are innovating HWC tech solutions could work together collaboratively to understand and address this growing problem.
Amazon Sustainability Accelerator
15 February 2023 10:22am
Call for Proposals: 'Can Technology Save Biodiversity?'
10 February 2023 10:31am
Tech for a sustainable future: The challenges and opportunities ahead
10 February 2023 10:30am
Interesting read on how tech is contributing to climate change and what companies are doing to improve sustainability.
How to conduct rapid eligibility assessments for forest carbon projects using geospatial data
3 February 2023 3:32pm
14 June 2023 7:16pm
Here's another article I came across about tracking gear powered by animal movement, which would drastically reduce the need for batteries and increase the lifespan of biologging tools. Obviously an incredible innovation that ties into the discussions we've had in the Tracking Progress program about catapulting animal movement ecology tech forward, but also great to think about from a sustainability perspective!