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Acoustic Monitoring

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Accessible acoustic analysis tech for blind scientist - ideas?

Bioacoustic monitoring is one of our biggest and most active groups, with members collecting and analysing acoustic data from every type of wildlife, from birds and bats to big cats, and even reptiles!

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Using acoustic monitoring to track infectious disease risk

New paper in Trends in Parasitology discusses how acoustic monitoring can be used to assess presence and overlap of host or reservoir species, disease vectors and human activity.

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AI for Conservation

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Updates about Arbimon for Ecoacoustics - free, cloud based analytical tool

Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used in the field to analyse information collected by wildlife conservationists, from camera trap and satellite images to audio recordings. AI can learn how to identify which photos out of thousands contain rare species; or pinpoint an animal call out of hours of field recordings - hugely reducing the manual labour required to collect vital conservation data.

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Quantifying the movement, behaviour and environmental context of group-living animals using drones and computer vision

New paper in Journal of Animal Ecology

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Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects

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Who's going to ESA in Portland this year?

Camera trapping for insects is becoming a reality using advances in camera, AI, and autonomous systems technologies. This group discusses the latest advances, shares experiences, and offers a space for anyone interested in the technology, from beginners to experts.

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Tropical pilot of insect camera traps

New technology enabling the automated monitoring of moths has been put to rigorous testing in tropical conditions in Panama by an international team of researchers

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Citizen Science

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New article: Domain-specific neural networks improve automated bird sound recognition already with small amount of local data

Anyone can become a citizen scientist - even experts! If you're excited about exploring new areas of conservation tech, contributing to projects, or developing and launching your own citizen science projects or apps, this is the group for you.

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USD500 available for your workshop

Sloan Foundation funding

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Camera Traps

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Who's going to ESA in Portland this year?

Looking for a place to discuss camera trap troubleshooting, compare models, collaborate with members working with other technologies like machine learning and bioacoustics, or share and exchange data from your camera trap research? Get involved in our Camera Traps group! All are welcome whether you are new to camera trapping, have expertise from the field to share, or are curious about how your skill sets can help those working with camera traps.

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Real-time alerts from AI-enabled camera traps using the Iridium satellite network

New paper in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

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Conservation Tech Training and Education

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Moveapps: EMAC23 Coding Challenge

There are educators everywhere working to teach and train the next generation of sustainability minded students. Whether in formal settings (K-12, undergraduate, graduate) settings or informally as science communication now it is more important than ever to work towards advancing Conservation Tech education. By working on interdisciplinary teams we can help develop teaching and training tools to help expand the field of Conservation Technology creation.

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USD500 available for your workshop

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Early Career

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Computer Science student looking to work for wildlife

Just starting your conservation tech career path? Our Early Career group is the best place to network, chat about your master's projects, and seek advice from your peers and those who have been down this path before! Join now to get to know community members and students from around the world!

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Mobilising East African nature restoration professionals

Scholarships available for training courses focussing on nature restoration in East Africa

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Earth Observation 101 Community

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Earth Observation 101 - would you like an end of course Q&A?

Welcome to the official group for our virtual course, Earth Observation 101. This is your space to engage with course instructor Dr Cristian Rossi, find help and resources for each module, collaborate and chat with your fellow course participants!

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Meeting customer deadlines, without having to hire more staff

How environmental consultancy Eticwood use geospatial data for rapid forest carbon project assessments

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Drones

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ML-ready datasets for aerial/drone wildlife surveys

Used to pick up signals from tracking gear on the ground, collect images of wildlife and habitats from the air, gather acoustic data with specialized hydrophones, or even collect snot samples from whales' blowholes, drones are capable of collecting high-resolution data quickly, noninvasively, and at relatively low cost.

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Quantifying the movement, behaviour and environmental context of group-living animals using drones and computer vision

New paper in Journal of Animal Ecology

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Data management and processing tools

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Accessible acoustic analysis tech for blind scientist - ideas?

Conservation tech work doesn't stop after data is collected in the field. Equally as important to success is navigating data management and processing tools. For the many community members who deal with enormous datasets, this group will be an invaluable resource to trade advice, discuss workflows and tools, and share what works for you.

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Meeting customer deadlines, without having to hire more staff

How environmental consultancy Eticwood use geospatial data for rapid forest carbon project assessments

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eDNA & Genomics

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Conservation Tech Directory - new update!

eDNA is a molecular conservation tech tool that can be used to detect species presence in samples taken directly from the environment. To date, eDNA has been used for species detection, biomass estimation, diet analysis, reconstruction of past flora and fauna, and wildlife disease detection. Still a relatively new area of conservation tech, eDNA is in a phase of rapid innovation and growth, with improved ease of use and more accessibility allowing this technology to find new uses in the field and lab.

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A practical guide to DNA-based methods for biodiversity assessment

The guide considers four different types of samples (water, sediments, invertebrate collections and diatoms), and two primary analysis types (single species detection via methods such as qPCR and assessment of biological communities via metabarcoding). At each stage of the field and laboratory process the guide sets out the scientific consensus on best practice, as well as the choices that need to be made and the trade-offs they entail. In particular, the guide considers how the choices may be influenced by common practical constraints such as logistics, time and budget.

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Ending Wildlife Trafficking Online

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Survey for Wildlife Conservation: Do We Need Hand of Technology?

The world’s most endangered species are under threat from an unsuspecting source—the Internet. The Coalition to End Wildlife Trafficking Online launched this group in partnership with WILDLABS to create a space for discussing the technologies and partnerships that are pushing to turn the tide in the fight against trafficking in wildlife species and products online.

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Ceres Wild Rhino application

An update on Ceres Tags products that are being used in conservation

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Human-Wildlife Conflict

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Moveapps: EMAC23 Coding Challenge

Human-wildlife conflict is a significant challenge that only grows as habitats shrink and other issues like climate change alter the natural world. Technologies like biologging gear have become essential for proactively addressing human-wildlife conflict before it escalates, and tech projects that seek to understand population ranges and behaviour can help people learn to live with wildlife as part of our own environments. If you're interested in using technology to prevent human-wildlife conflict, this group is the place for you!

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Using acoustic monitoring to track infectious disease risk

New paper in Trends in Parasitology discusses how acoustic monitoring can be used to assess presence and overlap of host or reservoir species, disease vectors and human activity.

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Marine Conservation

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Drones for IUU (illegal fishing activities & vessel monitoring)

Bringing together many of our community's tech types like bioacoustics, biologging, drones, remote sensing, machine learning, and more, the Marine Conservation group is a meeting point to begin innovative collaborations and answer difficult questions.

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Zooplankton Prosome and Lipid Sac Segmentation

A machine learning-based solution that can segment the Prosomes and Lipid sacs with sufficient accuracy helps to recognize the ecological plasticity of key Arctic copepods. It allows scientists to learn more about the relationship between the size and volume of two components of planktonic organisms: the prosome (the main body) and the lipid sac (energy reserves accumulated by copepods before winter).

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Footprint Identification Technique (FIT)

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WildTrack Women in Science Day, 11 February 2021

Footprints are everywhere, and are perhaps the most overlooked source of data on the planet. WildTrack's Footprint Identification Technique (FIT) can identify species, individuals, sex and age-class to a high level of accuracy from simple images of footprints taken to a standardized protocol. This technique has the benefit of being non-invasive, cost-effective and draws on the strengths of community-skills such as tracking and observation. Our WildTrackFIT community is composed of users in >20 countries and we have FIT species algorithms developed for a range of species from big cats to Pachyderms, bears, mustelids, and even small mammals.If you see footprints as part of your fieldwork, or in another capacity, we'd love to hear from you!

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Ethics of Conservation Tech

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MozFest 2023 call for proposals on Tech & Biodiversity

Over the last few years the conservation movement has been enthusiastically deploying new technologies that make it possible to observe and protect the natural world in ways once unimaginable. But are there any potential risks we need to consider as we deploy the new, exciting technologies?

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An Ethics Toolkit to Support Animal-Centered Research and Design

Published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science

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Protected Area Management Tools

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Commercially available connected audio sensors

Protected area management systems empower essential frontline conservationists to monitor wildlife and ecosystems in real-time. With tools like SMART, EarthRanger, and Esri's Conservation Land Management toolkit, users can collect, integrate, and display data from across landscapes to ensure that key information from the field gets to decision-makers in time to make a difference. This group is the place for new and experienced users of these tools alike to ask questions, share experiences, and work together to improve their effectiveness in critical conservation landscapes around the world.

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Call for Proposals: 'Can Technology Save Biodiversity?'

Frontiers in Conservation Science is calling for submissions for a Research Topic that aims at examining the paradoxical relationship that has been established in recent years between the flagships of new technology such as embedded systems and artificial intelligence (AI), and the entities involved in the study and protection of life such as ecological research and conservation policies.

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Remote Sensing & GIS

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Who's going to ESA in Portland this year?

Every day, mapping and spatial analysis are aiding conservation decisions, protected areas designation, habitat management on reserves and monitoring of wildlife populations, to name but a few examples. If you are excited by the ways in which GIS is used in conservation, this is the group for you!

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Meeting customer deadlines, without having to hire more staff

How environmental consultancy Eticwood use geospatial data for rapid forest carbon project assessments

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Sustainable Fishing Challenges

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Tech Tutors: How do I use open access remote sensing data to monitor fishing?

This group welcomes those in our marine conservation tech community to collaborate together on challenges related to sustainable fishing practices. Inspired by this thread focusing on minimising the impact of trawling gear on seafloor environments, the Sustainable Fishing Challenges group is a place to share resources, pose challenges, brainstorm creative solutions, and begin collaborative projects.

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News: The Latest in Conservation Tech

<p>Check out this round-up of three of the latest news stories from the conservation tech world. </p> <p><a href="https://wildlabs.us11.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=13a5323dc43234ee66d95cc90&id=fce1034265">See more conservation tech news by subscribing to our bi-monthly digest. </a></p>

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