Software and mobile applications are equally as important to conservation technology as the hardware used in the field. Increasingly developed specifically for #tech4wildlife needs, there are mobile apps and software options designed to help with protected area management, wildlife crime reporting, and anti-poaching patrol planning, data analysis, community science, data visualization and GIS mapping, outreach and engagement, and even conservation storytelling.
Likewise, mobile games have opened up new avenues for engaging the public in conservation efforts, allowing for immersive storytelling and interactive experiences. By combining cutting-edge technology and important conservation information with a media form already familiar to the public, conservationists are finding exciting ways to make audiences feel personally invested in critical species and habitats.
Whether you're looking for software and mobile app developers to help you with your own conservation tech needs, you have questions about development, you're looking for resources, or you'd like to share your own app, software, or gaming tools, this is the group for you!
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Early-career movement ecologist currently working with an interdisciplinary team to develop and deploy animal-borne tracking devices with the interest of monitoring and studying the fine-scale behaviors of large carnivores, particularly in the context of human wildlife conflict
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camtrapR has a function that does what you want. i have not used it myself but it seems straightforward to use and it can run across directories of images:https://jniedballa.... |
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Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions, Software and Mobile Apps | 5 months 2 weeks ago | |
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I'm registered with the TWS2023 app, so feel free to nudge me there as well |
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Biologging, Remote Sensing & GIS, Software and Mobile Apps | 6 months 2 weeks ago | |
Thanks Arky! |
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Hi @GermanFore ,I work with the BearID Project on individual identification of brown bears from faces. More recently we worked on face detection across all bear species and ran... |
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We use Kobo as well - it is amazing!!! |
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Hi Tobias! This sounds great and I am looking forward to trying it out after returning from field work! Very cool with the Vectronic Activity data! I am looking forward... |
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There is the Conservation Tech Directory! There's an 'open-source' tag you can search by too. |
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DeerLab.com's trail camera software was built to manage and analyze photos. It's a cloud-based web application that has a number of features, from photo recognition to manual tagging of any animal. While geared toward hunters, it's also used for camera trap studies.
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I replied to one of your other posts with this so apologies if you're seeing it twice, but have you tried Vulcan's EarthRanger? That's the only thing I can think of that hasn't already been mentioned (SMART, CyberTracker, etc.).
30 July 2021 2:04pm
I just thought of something else that might be an option - Miradi Share (https://www.miradishare.org/ux/home).
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Kobocollect could be adapted to and easy to use: https://www.kobotoolbox.org/
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I wanted to share this wonderful website I just came across from the Earth Defenders Toolkit that lists a bunch of apps and software/platforms that are used for data collection, analysis, sharing & by many Indigenous groups. Some of them specifically are aimed towards illiterate users.
Link - https://earthdefenderstoolkit.com/toolfinder
They also link to the platforms they're referencing so you can learn more about them. I hadn't heard of many of them, but they seem really useful! Cadasta, Mapbox, Field Papers, OpenDroneMap, Sapelli, etc etc
3 August 2021 4:17pm
Thanks for posting Carlybatist - very interesting link.
A couple of our WildTrack users have asked about the possibility of collecting our footprint data through the SMART app. Does anyone know a developer connected with SMART who might be able to help us discuss this possibility? Thank you!
Zoe
3 August 2021 5:05pm
I believe Monica Harris is the SMART partnership program manager - https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicabarcellosharris/.
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The depth of institutional support they have put together is impressive. I'm forwarding them to a student dev I know and will definitely keep them in mind to recommend to NGOs. Thanks for posting this!
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Great initiative. Very detailed and many features. Wondering how nothing like this exists yet. One thing I'm thinking of is privacy. For many folks on the front line that I know (many of which indigenous persons) posting anyting that would be traceable to them in any way would be a real risk. I probably didn't read carefully enough sorry.
Theun Amsterdam
29 April 2021 2:42pm
I definitely think it's a great idea! I think some of the reasons there are country-by-country versions of initiatives like this are because of country-specific laws, regulations, privacy restrictions, level of enforcement, etc. There is also the issue of multi-national organizations such as WWF, WCS, FFI, etc. who may be working in some areas alongside local, community-led initiatives. You'd just want to be careful that there was equitable distribution of reports. On that note, internet access and smartphones may not be available in many places globally. I work in Madagascar and this would definitely be a problem. Perhaps allowing some sort of retroactive reporting, so someone who saw something but didn't have internet could at least report it the following week when they are back at a research station or town, for example.
I would worry too about the users reporting illegal activity and what specific security protections are in place to ensure any personally-identifiable information cannot be leaked. It might be worth thinking about how those engaging in the illegal activities themselves may try to weaponize an app like this, e.g., a large-scale mining operation reporting individuals from the community for cutting down trees (the scale of one versus the other is very different, but company-backed illegal activity will have more resources than an indigenous tribe, for example). Given how corrupt officials in different goverment agencies help perpetuate shady business dealings, there could be targeted or inequitable enforcement based on reports like this.
I would recommend reaching out to folks specifically embedded in this space, such as the people at TRAFFIC, TRACE (wildlife forensics), etc. The folks at SMART will likely have good ideas, and already have some of the functionality you're describing (albeit focused on rangers and park officials rather than the general public at large).
18 June 2021 11:54am
Hi writer (I didn't get your name ;-),
if you like we can talk for 30min or so to review your solution. There are a number of them out there, including our Cluey Data Collector & Tracking app.
The main things that we wanted to solve was:
- ease to start a project (without requiring the user to understand things like data-models etc.)
- seamless integration with other data sources and (realtime) analytical functions to help rangers optimize patrols etc.
- ease to share observations
- ease to combine/aggregate project
Would be great to share some ideas and see if we can help each other,
Best,
Jan Kees
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Hi Wilson, Similar product we are creating at https://aivi.in . We are focused on audio, image, vedio based intelligent and based out of Bangalore,India. Currently implementing this solution( Computer vision, IoT , Cloud , Intelligent) for one of santuary in India to detect poachers and animals
Attaching idea snap that we are implementing. Intellgence Dashboard provides all related details ( Count etc.) This is just driven by IoT enabled camera and Mobile App for plug and play solution
28 March 2019 9:22am
I'd highly suggest going with a pre-built service like AWS Rekognition or Google Vision, as their models are already trained with more images that you could possible do yourself.
18 June 2021 11:53am
hi Louise, I don't know if you are still looking, but we've just become second (5 digits behind the comma ;-) at the iWildcam2021 Kaggle competition. We're currently building a full-circle solution to:
- identify objects, people and animals on images
- determine whether they form a time sequence (several images in a row showing the same animal that passes by)
- count the number of object/animals seen in that sequence
- place classifications that do not pass a user-defined threshhold in a queue
- provide an interface to manually classify these images
- and pass back the results to a client. This could be an API, or our any of the analytical tools in out WITS platform
If you are interested in a call, you can reach me at [email protected],
Best regards!
Jan Kees
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We've had our eye on this too. Glad you can confirm its a good experience. I'll definitely give it a go.
15 February 2021 8:34pm
@itsravenous I saw this too! It's on my to-buy list so I can see what they've done. It looks like a really nice game, very engaging :D
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29 January 2021 6:22am
Hi, I'd love to hear your thoughts if you have any other suggestions. Most of the solutions suggested have been a struggle due to the need to download each and every file to each device in order to be accessible offline (we have limited internet) and also in order to have multiple levels of user access.
29 January 2021 10:55am
Ah, if internet is a problem you are somewhat limited. You could leverage a caching solution but it would still require internet at some intervals.
29 January 2021 12:24pm
You never mentioned the sporadic internet access constraint, Nadia; otherwise, I would have mentioned an addtional solution component to alleviate the problem.
For nearly 3 decades, UNIX, Linux and its variants have had a marvelous tool called rsync. It has the ability to automatically replicate file content across networks based on configured rules. While MediaWiki (running on a Linux server) would be the optimal knowledge sharing repository for this initiative, IMO, the client desktops/laptops would just need the appropriate rsync client tools (Cygwin for Windows is available as FOSS) to replicate files automatically from the repository when internet connectivity is available.
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Hi Sue
Did you manage to get in touch with AI DigitalWorld - they are developing a lot of conservation apps.
contact: [email protected]
8 December 2020 9:52am
Hi Sue
We focus on building citizen science and conservation apps and might be able to help you. If you still require to make the changes to your app then please PM me or email [email protected]
Here ir our site: https://flumens.io
25 January 2021 9:44am
Dear Sue
I hope your are good.
We are a software company specilized in biodiversity informatics.
We could have a chat.
Cheers
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Dear,
I am Adrien Pajot, and I am currently working on AI and development for accoustic monitoring in an Open Source project.
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APIs for UK Bird Mobile Application?
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15 January 2021 2:28pm
Hi Tom,
Not sure if it's too late but the Species+ database from CITES has an API: Species+/CITES Checklist API (speciesplus.net)
3 November 2021 12:46am
Not designed specifically for wildlife marketplaces, but SMART Collect can be used for citizen science and community reporting projects.