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BirdCLEF+ 2025

Alex Rood

12 March 2025 2:22pm

Species identification from audio, focused on birds, amphibians, mammals and insects from the Middle Magdalena Valley of Colombia.

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Gato andino y su cachorro grabados por primera vez en Mendoza: imágenes clave del felino más amenazado de América

Vanesa Reyes

11 March 2025 4:01pm

Un equipo de investigadores de WCS logró registrar imágenes de un cachorro de gato andino (Leopardus jacobita), el felino más amenazado de América, en la provincia de Mendoza, Argentina. Este importante hallazgo fue posible gracias al uso de cámaras trampa, destacando la...

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Hansen Global Forest Change Dataset

Vance Russell

11 March 2025 11:12am

The deadtrees.earth dataset that Elsa shared earlier this week is an excellent, albeit grimly named dataset! Here's another for global forest forest change derived from Landsat imagery. Click the link at the bottom to open in the Google Earth Engine Code Editor.

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Hansen Global Forest Change v1.11 (2000-2023) [deprecated]  |  Earth Engine Data Catalog  |  Google for Developers

Results from time-series analysis of Landsat images in characterizing global forest extent and change. The 'first' and 'last' bands are reference multispectral imagery from the first and last available years for Landsat spectral bands corresponding to red, NIR, SWIR1, and SWIR2. Reference composite imagery represents median observations from a set …

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Do more with Data: Online Workshop

Nalini

11 March 2025 9:12am

Are you looking to make better use of data in your work? Nature FIRST is organising a free online workshop exploring how technology, data, and collaboration can enhance conservation efforts. No prior data experience is...

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GPS collars for domestic dogs

Stephanie M.

20 January 2025 3:26am

Hi Everyone - I'm quantifying home ranges and contact rates between wildlife, pastoralists, and domestic animals (livestock guardian dogs and livestock) living on shared...

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Constance Woodman

20 February 2025 8:46pm

What are your parameters? Do you need yes no movement, which could be collected with an accelerometer and no lat-long data?

Movement on an XY grid once an hour within a tightly bounded area?

High resolution once per second data? Large geographic area?

Different technologies deliver ddifferent datasets. Sometimes, significantly!

Fadhilla Golda

10 March 2025 11:37am

Hi Stephanie, at https://Savannahtracking.com we develop and manufacture a variety of collars with sizes ranging from about 95 grams for Raptors, 200grams - 1200g for mammals, and collars for large mammals such as Elephants. We currently have collars deployed on Dingoes which are about the same size as domestic dogs, and I believe that a similar solution will be perfect for your needs.
Our GPS collars can be programmed to collect high resolution data (15-minute gps positions) with hourly uploads via iridium satellite to our server where you can view and download the data from our dedicated windows or MAC SDM platforms. We also have a view only android/ios app. All our collars have two-way satellite communication, Internet based downloading via the free accompanying Savannah Tracking data manager software, automated Google Earth links for visualization, fully user definable geo fencing allowing for point, line and polygon fences and automated app and mail alarms in case of zone violation.

Kindly reach out to us and we can discuss a bespoke solution for your tracking needs at info@savannahtracking.com

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Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to Reduce the Impact of Climate Change on Wildlife

Alex Rood

10 March 2025 5:42pm

This thesis concludes that artificial intelligence offers valuable opportunities for mitigating the impacts of climate change on wildlife with careful consideration of its limitations and ethical implications.

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Utilizing Artificial Intelligence to Reduce the Impact of Climate Change on Wildlife

AbstractCurrent anthropogenic climate change poses a significant threat to biodiversity, rapidly driving species towards extinction. Wildlife conservation relies on the speed and accuracy of processing environmental data, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as a promising tool to assist wildlife conservation efforts. This thesis conducts a literature review to explore how artificial intelligence is being utilized to mitigate the impacts of climate change on wildlife. It examines the key applications of artificial intelligence, such as monitoring wildlife, predicting species distribution under climate effects, mitigation solutions, and poaching and trafficking detection. This literature review focuses on identifying the effective artificial intelligence models in current conservation practices, highlighting their capabilities, challenges, and limitations. The findings suggest that artificial intelligence can significantly enhance wildlife monitoring and conservation planning, as well as providing tools to predict environmental changes and plan mitigation strategies. However, certain challenges including technical limitations, ethical considerations, and data availability remain obstacles to utilizing the full potential of artificial intelligence in this field. Future research should focus on the development of unified species databases, identifying the most reliable models, Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), and cost-effective solutions, while addressing ethical issues. This thesis concludes that artificial intelligence offers valuable opportunities for mitigating the impacts of climate change on wildlife with careful consideration of its limitations and ethical implications.

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Mothbox - Upcoming Features

Andrew Quitmeyer

7 March 2025 8:03pm

Unfortunately we are currently out of funding, and even our amazing Fulbright Student @briannaljohns is looking like her funding will be cutoff as the US crumbles :(However that's...

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Ryan Smith

7 March 2025 10:02pm

Hey Andrew, sad to hear funding has run out, but some very interesting developments!

It may be worth a conversation, I could definitely help on some of the above points from an electronics standpoint!

Kim Hendrikse

8 March 2025 9:32am

Really nice to see all that creative energy at work! Keep it up 👍🏻❤️

Adrien Pajot

10 March 2025 3:45pm

@hikinghack that's a complete update!

A lot of compassion regarding the budget situation, especially knowing how great @briannaljohns is.

It’s great to see a clear plan for the hardware development! I hope you'll have nice outcomes from it! 

 

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Sea turtle Bioacoustics Project

Sam Jamil

17 February 2025 8:16pm

Hi everyone, I have an opportunity to work with Green sea turtles and Olive ridleys off the coast of Sri Lanka, this will be my first bioacoustics conservation project. I would...

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Claudia Lacroix

7 March 2025 12:47pm

Hi Sam, I  did my master's on hatchling turtle vocalisations and their role in nest emergence behaviours (currently under review for publication). I recorded nest emergence behaviour in-situ using microphones and camera traps. I worked with snapping turtles, but the methods could be quite useful. I would be happy to share my thesis if that would be helpful.

there are a few sea turtle papers that describe hatchling vocalisations but not many experiments testing hypotheses for these vocalisations. 

here are some papers that could help you get you started:

Shoot me a message if interested in chatting more :)

 

M Zahirul Islam

7 March 2025 1:32pm

Hello Sam ...great work, would like to see the paper when it comes online. I would like to know about the device....Bests Zahir

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Vertual Fence

doug hemingway

27 January 2025 6:26am

I have 240 hectares of old-growth forest in Far South East Coast NSW Australia.I tried to build a feral fence but that got all too hard.The site is on a peninsular so much easier...

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Akiba

28 January 2025 12:38am

Hi Doug. 
We are located in Melbourne and work with Bush Heritage in large reserve monitoring. Would love to chat and hear more about the issues you are having to see if we can help out with it. Let me know via private message and we can set up a meeting. 
Akiba

doug hemingway

28 January 2025 8:41am

I will be back in Melbourne Thursday.

I would like to send you the Florer and Forner study done in 2010 to bring you up to speed.

I'm new to this and can't find the attachment key.

Can you send an email address?

Doug

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Blurring of humans in camera trap data

Chelsea Smith

20 February 2025 9:31am

Hi All,I'm looking into tools that can be used to blur images containing humans from camera trap data. So far I've found people using standard photo editing software and come...

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Chelsea Smith

27 February 2025 11:26am

Out of curiosity, as we have some projects collecting videos, what would be the best solution for blurring video content?

Talia Speaker

7 March 2025 5:36pm

The magic of the WILDLABS community! @Chelsea_Smith @dmorris @pvlun  thanks for showing everyone how it's done :) Chelsea, would be great to hear how this works out for you whenever you can share an update!

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Presenters wanted: showcase your open source income streams

Frank van der Most and 5 more

17 February 2025 2:08pm

A burning topic in the open source community is how to generate income ( in any way, including commercialisation ) with open source software or hardware? Recently, questions were...

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Frank van der Most

7 March 2025 12:21am

It's great to see so much interest in presenting at this webinar. We have also received interest through direct messages and meetings that we've happened to have had. Thank you all for volunteering!

We will get back to you after wext week Wednesday ( 12th ) when there will be the next coordination meeting.

This date will also be the deadline for those still considering to volunteer.

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New WILDLABS Feature: Introducing Courses!

WILDLABS Team and 1 more

5 March 2025 12:25pm

Discover WILDLABS' new feature: self-led learning courses. Get started with or dive deeper into conservation technology through structured courses designed by independent experts, verified members, and the WILDLABS team.

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Jonathan Carlo Briones

1 August 2025 10:42am

Thank you! Its an invaluable resource. The posted recordings of past trainings via other onlone platforms is much appreciated as well. 
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