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 & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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Woods Hole Group
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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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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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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I am the WILDLABS East Africa Conservation Technology Coordinator
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Worked as a mechanical engineer for a defence co, then software engineer, then for a research lab specialising in underwater robotics.
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FileMaker developer with a passion for nature.
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DIY electronics for behavioral field biology
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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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What better way to conclude InConversation Season 1: East Africa than by delving into the exciting yet complex world of #tech4wildlife innovation across the region. This episode is going to be double the insight and...
30 April 2024
The North Carolina Zoo seeks a dynamic, motivated and progressive individual to serve as the Associate Curator of International Conservation within the zoos’ Conservation, Education and Science (CES) program. The...
29 April 2024
It has been an extraordinary year supporting and growing the regional East African Conservation Technology Community at WILDLABS. We've made great strides and unlocked exciting opportunities for our community as we...
29 April 2024
Careers
Great opportunity to join our team! We are #hiring. We’re excited to announce that we’re looking for a talented individual to perform the role of Monitoring Team Lead. If you’re a great team player, we’d love to...
23 April 2024
Apply to the inaugural GOSH Ambassador Program by June 15!
18 April 2024
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Are you interested in getting more involved in the WILDLABS community? Do you want an opportunity to build your network and get more connected to other conservation tech folks in your field? Apply to be a group manager!
17 April 2024
We’ve received lots of interest in opening new groups on WILDLABS, so we’re rolling out a formalized process to get them off the ground.
15 April 2024
Careers
The Fonseca Leadership Program is open to nationals of eligible countries within WWF-US and GEF priority areas who are already enrolled/are interested in enrolling in a master’s or PhD program. Eligible countries...
3 April 2024
What can soundscapes tell us about ecosystem functioning and health? We are looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher in ecoacoustics for Nature Recovery at Oxford
2 April 2024
A grant of $150,000 will be awarded to one successful applicant with a proposal that's strongly linked to biodiversity and conservation. The grant will support a research project or programme for up to three years (...
2 April 2024
18 month postdoc research position, Netherlands, EU-funded
28 March 2024
After a long application review and finalisation process, we are thrilled to finally announce the winners of the WILDLABS Awards 2024!
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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... |
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Community Base | 6 hours 50 minutes ago | |
Thanks for your insights Kim! |
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Community Base | 6 hours 4 minutes ago | |
Thank you so much Alex! |
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Community Base | 1 day 3 hours ago | |
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... |
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Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Early Career | 2 days 6 hours ago | |
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... |
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Community Base, Biologging | 1 week 2 days ago | |
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,... |
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Community Base | 4 weeks 2 days ago | |
Hello Ms Esther👋Thank you for taking your time to reply to me with such helpful response.I'm interested in conservation technology such as camera traps, GIS and Remote sensing,... |
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Early Career, East Africa Community, Community Base | 1 month 1 week ago | |
Hi Soumya , Interested to know if you are pursuing distance education in ML while at your current job. I would love to hear more about your journey on course specifics... |
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Community Base, Early Career | 1 month 1 week ago | |
Totally agree.Inititally sceptical until I saw Helena and Graeme were involved.MJ |
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Acoustics, Citizen Science, Community Base, Human-Wildlife Conflict | 1 month 1 week ago | |
Hi @Frank_van_der_Most,great point and I will address this in my little talk next week.Greetings from Austria,Robin |
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I got assistance. super grateful! |
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Climate Change, Community Base, East Africa Community, Conservation Tech Training and Education | 1 month 1 week ago | |
Awesome, thanks for the summary! |
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Protected Area Management Tools, Community Base | 2 months 1 week ago |
Welcome to WILDLABS!
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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
Meta: Does anyone know how to Stay logged in to Wildlabs.net?
24 May 2024 8:59pm
30 May 2024 7:24am
Oh. It also makes a difference if you close all browser windows or if you leave some open. Generally if you close all browser windows then the whole browser application is closed and you will be asked to login again. If you leave at least one browser window open you avoid this behavior.
But as this is not a banking website, and a few people find it annoying, maybe the easiest thing is to remove the time-to-live/expiry cookie policy like LinkedIn and medium.com do and then it’s solved.
30 May 2024 8:11am
If you open the developer tools, (Ctrl-shift C) on firefox, and look under the storage section), you can see the cookies in use by the site. For wildlabs.net, you can see that there is an expiry date. When I logged in today, I can see that the expiry date is 22 June 2024. So several weeks. That there is an expiry date means that it's a persistent cookie, i.e. it's written to disk and stays when the browser is closed.
The particular cookie concerned has a name that starts with SSESS, that will be the sites convention for it's login cookies. This suggests that wildlabs is setup in principle to stay logged in, in my case till 22 June 2024.
Again, so any difference in behavior is likely client side differences. Try logging in with different environments and seeing if the behavior is different for you? If it's purely client side behavior that causes this, then there is nothing that wildlabs.net can do to change this.
31 May 2024 12:42pm
Thanks for your insights Kim!
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
29 April 2024 10:52am
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Monitoring Team Lead, Ponterra
23 April 2024 3:19pm
Introduction and Networking
22 April 2024 9:37am
22 April 2024 10:46am
Hello and welcome to WILDLABS @loveness :)
What a great intro to what you are doing and interested in pursuing! I'd like to help direct you to our resources page, where you can check out multiple open career and academic opportunities from across your region that are posted regularly by the community. Find our Resources page linked here.
Which specific areas within conservation/conservation technology are you most interested in at the moment? We have over 32 specialised groups in our community you could explore here to help guide you as you go along your career journey :)
Best wishes!
23 April 2024 12:41pm
Hello Ms Esther👋
Thank you for taking your time to reply to me with such helpful response.
I'm interested in conservation technology such as camera traps, GIS and Remote sensing, tools like EarthRanger, wildlife tracking collars, Data collection apps. I've already joined the groups just after reading your response and I'll keep visit the Resources Page to find more opportunities.
Conservation Tech Career Pathways - what do you want to know?
17 June 2022 1:30pm
8 May 2023 2:43am
Wildlabers,
I have been randomly trying a few things here and there for a career switch. But so far it has been in bits and pieces. Meanwhile, I have started pursuing Masters in AI and ML hoping that might bring some tractions to my career search/ switch.
Meanwhile, I keep at it while being in my current job.
Thanks,
Soumya
20 April 2024 5:36pm
Unfortunately , not yet . Still digging into it in my free time. And trying to setup a camera in my bord feeder for a mini conservation project in my back garden :)
20 April 2024 5:41pm
Hi Soumya ,
Interested to know if you are pursuing distance education in ML while at your current job. I would love to hear more about your journey on course specifics and the platform you use to complete the education, and I would love to hear if you have any recommendations based on your experiences.
Thanks,
Savi
30 May 2024 1:26pm
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!