Carly Batist
- @carlybatist
- | she/her
Ali Swanson
- @aliburchard
- | she/her
Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective!!
Showcasing 600+ biodiversity tech organizations, this map will help practitioners, funders, and policymakers better use the technologies that exist to deliver these insights, and it highlights the gaps and barriers that still remain in order to drive collective action where it's needed most.
Key Insights
🔍 Tech gaps: 200+ orgs focus on monitoring, but data integration & interpretation lag - limiting real-world impact.
🧬🛰️ Adoption barriers: Despite impressive advancements in technologies like eDNA, bioacoustics, and remote sensing, practitioners face barriers to harnessing them fully, such as data interpretation, cost and implementation
🌍Uneven distribution: Biodiversity records are unevenly distributed across species (taxonomic bias) and locations (geographic bias), creating blind spots in conservation decision-making
🎯 Target-setting challenges: A lack of standardized guidance and diverse stakeholder needs make it harder for organizations to translate biodiversity data into actionable insights for different groups.
🤝 Democratization more a promise than reality? AI, camera traps & citizen science remain costly & complex.
🔗 Explore the map here: www.naturetechcollective.org/stories/biodiversity-sector-map
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4 April 2025 1:57pm
Thanks for sharing @carlybatist and @aliburchard !
About the first point, lack of data integration and interpretation will be a bottleneck, if not death blow to the whole nature tech use.
Is there any analysis as to why this is?
I am wondering to which extent the lack is due to the data measurement and monitoring companies sitting on their data or making it too costly to access it. From their respective individual business perspectives I could see why they would do that. However, if it cannot be accessed, it cannot be integrated, not interpreted and no aggregating indicators can be developed. End of story for biodiversity as an asset or investment opportunity.
Frank van der Most
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