Explore Conservation Ethics
In our recent panel episode of Tech Tutors, How do I use conservation tech ethically?, our presenters explored this important subject as they answered the following questions:
- Doug Clark: How do I use conservation tech ethically?
- Laure Joanny: How do I build on existing tools and procedures to use conservation tech ethically?
- Trishant Simlai: How does conservation tech cause harm?
- Koustubh Sharma: How do I manage ethical issues in the field?
Click each presenter's name to view the recording from their individual lecture portion of the panel.
Louis Cohen also created a conservation tech ethics beginner's guide for Tech Tutors participants, available for download here.
And in addition to the many engaging resources shared by participants during this episode, our presenters also provided several papers and other resources to help you explore the many aspects of conservation technology ethics:
- Research Paper (Doug Clark, Chris Sandbrook, Trishant Simlai): Principles for the socially responsible use of conservation monitoring technology and data
- Research Paper (Koustubh Sharma): Conservation and people: Towards an ethical code of conduct for the use of camera traps in wildlife research
- Keynote Presentation (Trishant Simlai): Conservation surveillance as a means for state repression? Psychological terror and the spectacles of fear through the use of drones in India
- The First Nations Principles of OCAP
- Doug Clark: Engaging Northern expertise strengthens ecological science
- Research Paper (Chris Sandbrook): The social implications of using drones for biodiversity conservation
If you're interested in discussing the ethics of conservation technology, you can join the WILDLABS forum dedicated to ethics, and connect with these panelists in this episode's Tech Tutors thread!
Asst. Prof @ MIT with research at the intersection of computer vision, biodiversity monitoring, conservation, and sustainability.
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Wild Spy
Whilst I love everything about WILDLABS and the conservation tech community I am mostly here for the badges!!
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Fauna & Flora
Conservation, Innovation, Education
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I'm the Community Manager at WILDLABS
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Wildlife Drones has developed the world’s most innovative radio animal-tracking system using drones so you can track your radio-tagged animals like never before.
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Octophin Digital
Jack of all Trades. I've been a zoo keeper, a conservation geneticist and a web developer who specialises in conservation projects and orgs.
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Allen Institute for AI
Communications for EarthRanger and Skylight
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PhD candidate studying the ethics of tech in human-animal interactions.
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Tech Tutors: How do I use tech ethically?
5 August 2021 3:28pm
How do I use conservation tech ethically?
Doug Clark
26 July 2021 12:00am
Seeking feedback: draft principles for responsible use of conservation surveillance technology
4 June 2020 6:38pm
17 February 2021 11:59pm
Hi Doug - What's the status of this paper? I have anothe rproject looking at conservation AI principles and would like to point ot this paper, if it's out. - Kate
18 February 2021 7:54pm
Hi Kate- it should be out imminently and we'll announce it here when it is. Meantime I'll email you a copy. cheers, Doug.
Tech Tutors: How do I build a community-owned conservation tech research project?
6 January 2021 4:57pm
Guidelines for reducing disturbance to wildlife when using drones
6 March 2020 3:00pm
8 June 2020 6:11pm
this paper is a good place to start: Hodgson, J. C., & Koh, L. P. (2016). Best practice for minimising unmanned aerial vehicle disturbance to wildlife in biological field research. Current Biology, 26(10), R404-R405.
Responsible Data concerns
8 February 2019 3:16pm
Open source vs intellectual property
23 November 2016 2:17pm
Building tech solutions from the ground up
30 November 2015 11:00am
30 November 2015 12:27pm
Thanks for contributing these thoughts and resources, Ken. Great to see you in the WILDLABS.NET community!
Live Event: Centre for Global Equality Seminar about drones and conservation
25 November 2015 12:44pm
25 November 2020 5:08pm
Hi Kate, Apologies for the delay responding. We submitted this work to Conservation Science and Practice on July 12 and we are currently working on the revisions. We hope it will be out soon. Stay well!