With experts across the WILDLABS community working with every type of technology and in every imaginable environment, our platform is a great place to find advice and resources on choosing what tools are right for your conservation project. Whether you're in the market to try a new camera trap model, want to experiment with drones for the first time, or need help weighing the pros and cons of data management tools, there's someone in the WILDLABS community who can help you make a smart and informed choice!
The Community Base is our general gathering group. It's the place where we cover more general, big picture topics in conservation technology - ones that don't fit neatly into our other groups. If you don't know where to post something, just post it in this group. Our moderators will move it if needed!
At our Community Base, you'll find updates from the WILDLABS team on upcoming events and opportunities, and have the chance to shape our programs and platform with your opinions. And most importantly, the Community Base is also home to our Welcome to WILDLABS thread, the best place to introduce yourself to us and the community. Stop by and tell us what you're working on!
Whether you're new to WILDLABS and want to know where to begin, or you're a longtime member looking for a handy bank of resources, our Getting Started on WILDLABS thread will be your one-stop guide to getting the most out of our platform.
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WILDLABS & Fauna & Flora
I'm the Executive Manager at WILDLABS.
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WILDLABS & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
I'm the WILDLABS Research Specialist at WWF-US
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WILDLABS & Fauna & Flora
I'm the Platform and Community Support Project Officer at WILDLABS! Speak to me if you have any inquiries about using the WILDLABS Platform or AI for Conservation: Office Hours.
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I'm a software developer. I have open source projects in practical object detection and alerting that is well suited for poacher detection and a Raspberry Pi based sound localizing ARU project
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Catherine Njore is a seasoned Cartographer with over 17yrs experience and specializing in children cartography. She recently designed a Cartography: Fun with Maps Program(CFMP); a program that assists children to learn how to draw, read and use maps effectively.
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FileMaker developer with a passion for nature.
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Panthera
Conservation technology hardware developer
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Aarhus University
Biologist and Research Technician working with ecosystem monitoring and research at Zackenberg Research Station in Greenland
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Argos satellite system manager for North America
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We, at Think Nature, are a university-launched startup that aims to transform into a nature economy where humans and nature coexist.
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University of St Andrews
Final Year Biology & Geography Undergraduate at the University of St Andrews
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Noé
Hi! I am Aurélie, a dedicated French ornithologist and engineer specialized in conservation technologies. I am currently Program manager for the biodiversity of natural habitats' program in a French NGO called Noé.
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WILDLABS & Fauna & Flora
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The Fonseca Species Conservation Fund supports early career conservationists working on projects regarding threatened amphibians, freshwater fish, primates, small mammals, tortoises and freshwater turtles 'in urgent...
29 May 2024
National Conservation Trust Fund of Jamaica opens a call for proposals regarding protected areas and other areas of high environmental importance.
26 May 2024
Are you passionate about marine wildlife conservation? Excited to network and collaborate with fellow enthusiasts? Join us in launching the Coastal and Marine Wildlife Working Group within The Wildlife Society!
23 May 2024
The IEF's Elephant Conservation and Research Funding Support Program has opened a call for applications. Average grant size is $15K, whereas the IEF funds 20 to 25 projects per year.
22 May 2024
Save Our Seas (SOS) opened a call for small grants for 'original and innovative start-up projects' concerning marine chondrichthyan species (sharks, rays, skates, sawfishes and chimaeras). Projects can be in research,...
19 May 2024
Funding
The UK government's 'Reversing Environmental Degradation in Africa and Asia' program opened a call for applications for "locally led, multi-locational, research-to-action for restoration programmes".
19 May 2024
Do you have photos and videos of your conservation tech work? We want to include them in a conservation technology showcase video
17 May 2024
The Biodiversity Finance Initiative ( BIOFIN, a UNDP initiative ) launched a database with over 330 public and private funding opportunities.
4 May 2024
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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
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The Inventory is your one-stop shop for conservation technology tools, organisations, and R&D projects. Start contributing to it now!
1 May 2024
Technology to End the Sixth Mass Extinction. Salary: $132 - $160k; Location: Seattle WA; 7+ years of experience in hardware product development and manufacturing; View post for full job description
1 May 2024
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...
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An update on my audio cases. I tried changing a few things. 1. Changed battery brand and thus the age of the batteries I was being supplied. The Tadiran cells being supplied... |
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Hello! I have been watching GPS collars carefully as their are nearing their time of drop-off. We are testing burst fixes on these last few weeks of their 2.5 year deployment.... |
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The Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH) has opened its second round of regional events funding! This program is perfect for groups... |
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Thanks. What's the link to the paper about conservation messaging? |
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@gracieermi and I just released a new update of the Conservation Tech Directory - now with 618 resources! New feature for this update... |
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Just re-upping this in hopes that I can get some more responses if it gets to the top of people's feeds. |
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We're thrilled and honored to see two more great articles out this week covering our recent State of Conservation Technology research... |
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great to see a new DiNaCon! can't make it there myself, but highly recommended. T |
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Super cool! amazing thing to launch! |
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Conservation X Labs is running the Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge: the Amazon with the support of... |
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Thanks Carly. It's such a useful resource :) |
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Hey all, this came up in journal club today (journal club is great and you should come). I know a lot of us end up having to train others... |
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Meta: Does anyone know how to Stay logged in to Wildlabs.net?
24 May 2024 8:59pm
3 June 2024 5:37am
But the use of the browser password manager should make it no big deal for people even if they got logged out once a day. Which I’m sure is not the case for the wildlabs site.'
"Big deal" is very subjective...
I use firefox on linux and have tabs unloaded when not in use for ~30 minutes. After 24-48 hrs if I click on the wildlabs tab I'm logged out. I then have to click on login and have my password manager fill out the form. Then it brings me to my profile page (why? why doesn't it go back to where I was which is where I wanted to be, just logged in?), then I have to click on the feed page, which displays the global feed which is also not of my interest. Finally I get to click on my feed. Is is a "big deal"? I can't claim it is. Does it keep me from checking wildlabs? Definitely! I participate in a dozen forums/discords and wildlabs is the most annoying to check in for a quick "oh, let's see whether there's something interesting".
3 June 2024 7:43am
It's still a choice to close your tabs. Closing all your tabs tends to get you to have to login again.
However.... Despite the expiry date on the cookie. linkedin.com logs in without ever having to re-enter your password. So I guess there is a way in principle to make it so you don't have to log back in. Such would a way then also work with your auto tab closer.
However, that's not something that I'm going to investigate. If someone wanted to, the clue would be in the cookies and the final answer would be available from the wildlabs site developer. Myself, I would never have guessed that so many people would find this annoying. But everyone is different.
Introducing myself as part of the WiCT 2024 Cohort
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31 May 2024 9:00pm
Welcome to WILDLABS!
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Hello everyone!
I have been following the Wildlabs more or less actively for 5 years now, but never introduced myself!
I am an agronomy engineer specialised in conservation technologies. I have worked in private companies and NGOs, managing the development of conservation technologies’ projects on the development side as well as on the conservation expert side. I have recently joined an NGO called Noé, working on broader conservation projects around land stewardship, agroecology, restauration, connectivity and coexistence, but, of course, conservation tech are never far!
I look forward to learning and sharing with all of you!
31 May 2024 10:15am
Dear Akiba.
Sorry for late reply.
I'll contact you via DM.
31 May 2024 1:55pm
Hi all,
I work at Planet, where we image all of Earth’s landmass every day, and make global change visible, accessible and actionable.
Part of my daily work is to lead the NICFI Satellite Data Program, which provides free access to Planet’s high-resolution, analysis-ready mosaics of the world’s tropics in order to help reduce and reverse the loss of tropical forests, combat climate change, conserve biodiversity, and facilitate sustainable development for non commercial uses. Generally speaking, I think about ways through which we can help, at scale, our users (now more than 30k!) best access and use satellite data in support of their workflows and challenges.
Very happy to answer questions about satellite data, the NICFI Satellite Data Program, Planet, and talk about geodata for nature and climate in general :)
Cheers,
Luisa
Research in community-based conservation programs: best practices & challenges
24 May 2024 9:57am
28 May 2024 8:04pm
Hey there! Here are some people you may way to reach out to:
- @EstherGithinji
- Kate Tointon from Fauna and Flora International's Conservation Leadership Programme
- @Abigail
I'll keep thinking about other possible contacts!
29 May 2024 12:25am
Hi Yanna,
Your project seems not particularly technology oriented, which is okay, of course. However, if you're not already calling or searching there, I would suggest checking out
cheers
Frank
30 May 2024 3:29pm
Thank you so much Alex!
FSCF call for ≤ $25K threatened species projects
29 May 2024 3:16pm
Thoughts on new MSc in Conservation Technology
24 May 2024 3:54pm
28 May 2024 5:42pm
Hi Emma,
Have you spoken to Kate Jones? She would be happy to speak with you about her team's work developing the MSc Ecology and Data Science at UCL, which sounds incredible and comprehensive. This MSc is the best conservation tech programme I've heard about so far, so it would be worth chatting to her team!
Steph
29 May 2024 12:14am
Hi Emma,
Thank you for your outline. Feel free to send me an outline ( I sent you my email in a private WildLabs message ), but from your description I would like to give two comments already,
1) Besides learning about these technologies, the course should in my view also include learning the skills of finding out about new technologies and assessing them. The list of technologies that you are giving seems state of the art, but in the course of the students career it is likely to change completely a couple of times over. Much of what is on the list would not be there ten years ago. Even only three years ago AI (as we now think of it ) would probably not be on the list, but ML would.
2) Perhaps you were planning this already, but when it comes to 'correct use and validation', in my mind, that should definitely include the social/societal aspects of these technologies, no matter if it is about use in the global North or global South. What I am after is Technology Assessment.
Hopefully, this is of use to you
cheers
Frank
29 May 2024 12:44pm
Building on Frank's comments, I'd also think about including some conversation about the ethical use of technology - Trishant's talk at Tech Tutors a little while ago sparked a really important conversation here in our community, one that would be valueable to have with your students.
GENZ in STEM Episode 10: Conservation technology, the meaningful career you may have never heard of
28 May 2024 6:09pm
WILDLABS team members Alex Rood and Esther Githinji sit down with the GENZ in STEM podcast to share resources on how to get started in conservation tech.
NCTFJ call for JM$ 500-5000K proposals
26 May 2024 5:05pm
WILDLABS Conservation Tech Meetup, Cambridge
24 May 2024 10:58am
🌊🐋 Join the Coastal and Marine Wildlife Working Group of The Wildlife Society! 🦈🐢
23 May 2024 10:53pm
Wildlife Data and Technology Side Events at World Biodiversity Forum 2024
23 May 2024 9:16pm
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES WORKSHOP 2024
23 May 2024 9:01pm
Who's attending the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos?
20 May 2024 9:50pm
22 May 2024 8:29am
Sounds great.
At what day will you present your talk?
Greetings from Austria,
Robin
22 May 2024 5:39pm
We'll be presenting Wednesday morning as part of session 10.1b on "Integrating earth observations and biological tools in ecology and evolution to cogenerate knowledge towards meeting the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets." For the side events, we're planning tentatively for a social Monday evening (following the welcome Apéro) and a meeting Wednesday during or after lunch on leveraging animal movement to meet conservation/policy goals.
We'd love to see you!
International Elephant Foundation call for $15K projects
22 May 2024 5:09pm
Save Our Seas, small grant call (±$5K)
19 May 2024 8:05pm
REDAA call for £1-1.5M projects
19 May 2024 5:03pm
Share Your Work in a Conservation Technology Video
17 May 2024 9:06pm
Survey on European biodiversity monitoring communities
7 May 2024 3:39pm
Biodiversa+ is running a survey to map the European biodiversity monitoring landscape, identify opportunities for collaboration, and strengthen coordination for improved monitoring.
300 funding and finance opportunities in free database
4 May 2024 3:12pm
WILDLABS downtime and performance issues due to AI bot attack
29 April 2024 3:35pm
1 May 2024 6:05pm
I noticed the site being annoyingly slow some time last week. Thank you for clearing that up, for finding the cause and solving the issue.
I'm not claiming deep knowledge on AI, but as a member this community, I'd be happy to give you my insights.
For starters: I am not categorically against bots scraping 'my' content, whether for AI training purposes, search engines, or other purposes. In principle, I find it a good thing that this forum is open to non-member users, and to me that extends to non-member use. Obviously, there are some exceptions here. For example when locations of individuals of endangered species are discussed, that should be behind closed doors.
Continuing down this line of reasoning, apparently it matters to me how 'my' content is being used. So, if someone wants to make an AI to aid nature conservation, I say, let them have it. There is the practical side of scraping activities that may be blocking or hindering the site, but there may be practical solutions for this. I don't know, say, have special opening hours for such things, or have the site engine prepare the data and make it available as a data dump somewhere.
Since purpose matters, organizations or individuals wanting to scrape the site should be vetted and given access or not. This is far more easily said than done. However, every step in the direction would be worth the while, because most technology publicly discussed here has good use for nature conservation, but equally bad use for nature destruction. For example, it's good to acoustically monitor bird sounds to monitor species, but also comes in handy when you are in the exotic bird trafficking business.
One could argue that since we allow public access, we should not care either about why bots are scraping the site. I would not go that far. After all, individual people browsing the site with nefarious purposes in mind is something else than a bot systematically scraping the entire site (or sections thereof) for bad purposes. It's a matter of scale.
The Inventory User Guide
1 May 2024 12:46pm
Introducing The Inventory!
1 May 2024 12:46pm
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Hiring Chief Engineer at Conservation X Labs
1 May 2024 12:19pm
InConversation: Season 1*Final Episode*
30 April 2024 11:38am
Delving into #tech4wildlife Innovation across East Africa with Sandra Maryanne & Catherine Njore
30 April 2024 11:37am
Job Opening: Associate Curator of International Conservation at North Carolina Zoo
29 April 2024 9:17pm
A Year of Supporting East African Conservation Technology: Lessons on How You Can Amplify #Tech4Wildlife
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Monitoring Team Lead, Ponterra
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Thanks for your insights Kim!