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Help Improve the WILDLABS Member Country Map
WILDLABS Team
WILDLABS is working to improve the accuracy of our community map so we can better understand where in the world all our members are based. This information is critical for accurately assessing how our community and...
20 August 2025
Article / Community Base | Edge Computing
New Group Announcement: Edge Computing
Jenna Kline and 1 more
We are thrilled to start a brand new group: Edge Computing! Meet Jenna Kline and Youssef Bayouli, the two Group Leaders for the 2025-2026 term.
19 August 2025
NASA ARSET Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
NASA ARSET Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
NASA ARSET Fundamentals of Remote Sensing
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AI for Conservation Office Hours: 2025 Review
Jake Burton and 1 more
Read about the advice provided by AI specialists in AI Conservation Office Hours 2025 earlier this year and reflect on how this helped projects so far.
6 August 2025
Discussion / Community Base
Hello from the WILDLABS Team! WILDLABS.NET will undergo essential maintenance between 10:00am and 4:00pm BST on Wednesday 3 September 2025. The...
27 August 2025
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Akiba
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The WILDLABS community forums are a fountain of knowledge. By joining discussions, we can understand what the real problems are, collaborate with people with the right expertise to solve those problems, and work together to craft real solutions. We hope you'll join the conversation!
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| To better understand peoples' trust in environmental DNA (eDNA) methods and data, the eDNA Collaborative is... |
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eDNA & Genomics | 1 hour 50 minutes ago | |
| Hi everyone,This is such an interesting discussion! I believe one of the most significant opportunities lies in designing smarter fishing equipment that strikes a balance between... |
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Sustainable Fishing Challenges | 4 hours 30 minutes ago | |
| Hi Sean - if this is still of interest I have just finished my first pilot run - I have spaces for a next run through September - this is the link to the training course: ... |
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Wildlife Crime | 10 hours 44 minutes ago | |
| We sell a product that includes the model, but we don't have a freely downloadable model for that purpose. You could try pytorch wildlife or speciesnet for a version to compare... |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Edge Computing | 22 hours 29 minutes ago | |
| This is a just an amazing project and career,we have a similar project here in kenya, i will be looking forwad for a cooperation with you to engage our kids and expand our... |
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Animal Movement, Drones, Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Coexistence | 22 hours 6 minutes ago | |
| in the last 3 months we hosted allander hobbs, an under graduated student from the university of edinbrugh, UK .during his interactive... |
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AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Citizen Science | 22 hours 27 minutes ago | |
| Hello from the WILDLABS Team! WILDLABS.NET will undergo essential maintenance between 10:00am and 4:00pm BST on... |
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Community Base | 1 day 1 hour ago | |
| Thanks for the informative videos ... wondered if anyone had recommendations for best IR PoE camera for monitoring wildlife at nighttime? my setup is to stream to a frigate server... |
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AI for Conservation, Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects, Camera Traps, Edge Computing | 2 days 5 hours ago | |
| I operate a small consultancy that specialises in development of applied tools and techniques that improve the management of wildlife populations, particularly invasive species... |
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Community Base | 2 days 8 hours ago | |
| Hi Luciano,My name is Pablo Saumann and I'm founder, director and live in a Private Conservation Project in Chile name Parque Valle los Ulmos. We are a group of people in the goal... |
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Emerging Tech, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Latin America Community | 2 days 17 hours ago | |
| Hi Youssef,Yes I've been following along and am looking forward to this group!Feel free to share whatever! |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Edge Computing | 3 days 11 hours ago | |
| I’m over in New York City for Geo for Good this week and wondered if anyone else in the community is there? Would be lovely to say hi if so. |
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Geospatial | 3 days 17 hours ago |
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Hi, I'm Gareth, the Conservation Technology Manager and pilot at Conservation South Luangwa in Zambia. I enjoy bringing people together to find solutions, especially if it involves tech for conservation!
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I am a marine biologist, passionate about nature, always linked to marine fauna studios. As a profesional leading field work groups and coordinating, monitoring, research and administration activities in projects. I am currently the Director of the Leatherback project
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I'm Thabang Lucky Masango born and bred in South Africa a Director of Fly Far Projects since 2018, I'm holding a Diploma in Financial Management and currently doing my Bcom Law at University of South Africa.
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MS Forestry Student at SIU; PEASE Lab
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I am a Senior Programme Manager at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), where I lead a programme of work on emerging technology and digital innovation to catalyse effective, equitable, and successful area-based species conservation.
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Conservation GIS Assistant Manager
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I am passionate about programming and innovative technologies in embedded systems (IoT). Driven by a creative spirit, I am constantly exploring new solutions to meet the challenges of tomorrow that our environment faces.
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Mothbox Deployments in Southeast Asia & Other Updates!
Brianna Johns
Find out more about our recent adventures to Bali, Indonesia, for the 4th Digital Naturalism Conference!
28 August 2025
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Snapshot Europe 2025: join the initiative!
Fabiola Iannarilli
Working with camera traps in Europe? Consider joining a new season of Snapshot Europe
26 August 2025
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How e-DNA Could Help Save Snow Leopards in Pakistan
Laiba Abbas Khan
Among the snow-peaked ranges of the Hindu Kush and Karakoram roams the “ghost of the mountains”—the snow leopard. Elusive and perfectly camouflaged, this majestic predator is both a symbol of Pakistan’s natural heritage...
20 August 2025
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The recent Ramsar Conference in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, underscored the critical importance of wetland conservation and the need for innovative solutions to protect these vital ecosystems.
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- Siguiendo Ballenas: rastreo satelital desde el espacio revela sus rutas migratorias // Tracking right whales from outer space reveals their migratory routes
Un ambicioso proyecto internacional está usando transmisores satelitales para monitorear los viajes migratorios de ballenas francas australes, permitiendo entender sus sorprendentes patrones de desplazamiento en tiempo real. // An ambitious international project is using satellite tags to monitor the migratory journeys of southern right whales, allowing researchers to understand their surprising movement patterns in real time.
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- Beyond the Tech Hype / Más Allá del Hype Tecnológico
Please help us by participating in a MSc research project on what you consider to be 'evidence' in your work in conservation.
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This is a chance to participate in a short survey about the preferences that conservation practitioners have for evidence. There's a chance to win one of three £20 Mastercard gift cards.
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Behind the Buzz Season 1
From Data to Decisions
Join us for Season 1 of Behind the Buzz, a new series where we break down complex topics with leading experts in a friendly, open space. This season, we’ll demystify key global policy processes and explore how to engage with them to support integrating critical conservation data at national and global scales, using animal movement as a lens to ground discussions.
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