Hi, I'm a front-end developper working with 

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EarthToolsMaker

Open Technology for Wildlife and the Planet

We are currently building app and tools to better visualise camera trap datasets. (more on that here)

If you have any need for user interactions an front-end work, make sure to ping me! 

Hi. I am Nev Kemp working with the High Conservation Value Network. The Network is a member-based organization that promotes the High Conservation Value (HCV) Approach, a pragmatic methodology to identify and protect ecosystems, biodiversity, and the needs of indigenous peoples and local communities where development takes place. https:// HCVs are biological, ecological, social, or cultural value of outstanding significance or critical importance and include six categories 1. Species Diversity; 2. Landscape-level ecosystems, ecosystem mosaics and IFL; 3. Ecosystems and Habitats; 4. Ecosystem  Services; 5. Community Needs; and 6 Cultural Values. 

The HCV approach has its origins in FSC certification but is now included in 23 standards and beyond certification. Under certification schemes, land managers should identify, manage and monitor their HCVs to maintain and enhance them. One of the biggest weakness is monitoring, especially for biodiversity. HCV a I am working on updating the Forest Integrity Assessment (FIA) tool https://www.hcvnetwork.org/library/hcv-screening-summary that helps managers (and other non-experts) monitor the state of their forests and promote action to protect biodiversity and ecosystem services. FIA has been implemented in many countries, but 'old-school' - manually, paper-based, that has made its uptake and utility limited. We need to update the tool on an accessible and mobile application with integrate suitable tech for monitoring biodiversity. The potential for monitoring biodiversity on a massive scale across 6 continents where the HCV approach is applied is both exciting and challenging. While very new to the tech space, I have been working in conservation for over 30 years (SE Asia) and have practical field experience working with stakeholders on the ground. So I here to learn what is possible, and what the network members think is most appropriate for the needs of HCVN. Cheers   

Hello everyone, I am very excited to just have joined Wildlabs.net and to connect with people from all over. My name is Brigitta and I am working as a project coordinator for the Animove Summer school www.animove.org for the Max Planck Institut of Animal Behavior.

I very much agree. It is a shame that companies/organisations are willing to spend so much to take from the earth and so little to give back. In the example I come from, we are a team of pure citizen scientists that give all our time for free to perform shark research. In my case, those same volunteers often use money from their own back pocket to keep the project going. We also rely heavily on the generosity of Conservation X to keep our software running and the servers alive.

Technology is not cheap to run. Every server uses electricity and as we all know its going up in price. 

It is a very scary situation when I know that all shark research that we are performing with Spot a Shark (and is being relied on by scientists to publish studies) is funded by nothing more than favours and donations. If that all ended tomorrow, do we just stop all research, awareness, campaigning etc and hope for the best?  

My view is that it ultimately comes down to the government to ensure that conservation is valued. Take extra taxes from the wealthy organisations / banks etc and fund this stuff. I am sure if people like Mark Zuckerberg etc can afford a $900k watch to wear on their wrist, they could afford to support conservation. 

@dmontecino @jenniferyu_viewdvm The article on how to go about proposing a new group is live: 

https://wildlabs.net/article/interested-starting-new-group-wildlabs-start-preparing-your-application

LMK if you have any questions!

Hola. Me gusto la idea! prefiero en español, mas que nada en todo este tema de informatica, etc, que ya posee un alto grado de dificultad. Aca en Argentina estoy trabajando con anfibios y grabadoras digitales automaticas, ahora comenzando a explorar sobre detección automatica o semiautomatica. 

This is such an important project! I can't wait to hear about the results. 

Hey Sanne, awesome - we definitely need a consistent metadata standard for PAM.

If you haven't already, I would suggest sharing this on the Conservation Bioacoustics Slack channel and the AI for Conservation Slack channel. You would reach a lot of active users of PAM, including some folks who have worked on similar metadata efforts. 

If you're not a member of either one of those, DM me your preferred email address and I'll send you an invite!

Hello everyone,

Thank you all for your contribution!

You can read some updates about this project in this post.

Julia