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Talia Speaker
- @TaliaSpeaker
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WILDLABS
World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Alex Rood
- @alexrood
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WILDLABS
World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
With experts across the WILDLABS community working with every type of technology and in every imaginable environment, our platform is a great place to find advice and resources on choosing what tools are right for your conservation project. Whether you're in the market to try a new camera trap model, want to experiment with drones for the first time, or need help weighing the pros and cons of data management tools, there's someone in the WILDLABS community who can help you make a smart and informed choice!
The Community Base is our general gathering group. It's the place where we cover more general, big picture topics in conservation technology - ones that don't fit neatly into our other groups. If you don't know where to post something, just post it in this group. Our moderators will move it if needed!
At our Community Base, you'll find updates from the WILDLABS team on upcoming events and opportunities, and have the chance to shape our programs and platform with your opinions. And most importantly, the Community Base is also home to our Welcome to WILDLABS thread, the best place to introduce yourself to us and the community. Stop by and tell us what you're working on!
Whether you're new to WILDLABS and want to know where to begin, or you're a longtime member looking for a handy bank of resources, our Getting Started on WILDLABS thread will be your one-stop guide to getting the most out of our platform.
Want to find out more about WILDLABS? Check out our recent community call:
Header image: Ana Verahrami/Elephant Listening Project
Group curators
- @TaliaSpeaker
- | She/her
WILDLABS & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
I'm the Executive Manager of WILDLABS at WWF
- 23 Resources
- 64 Discussions
- 32 Groups
- @alexrood
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WILDLABS & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
I'm the WILDLABS Communications and Community Management Associate Specialist at WWF-US
- 157 Resources
- 95 Discussions
- 6 Groups
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- @DeepakSathyanarayan
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Deepak is an experienced professional who has served in multiple leadership roles in technology, science, product development, and engineering programs. He has proven expertise in shaping and executing technology strategies across defense, space, health, and environment sectors.
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- 7 Groups
- @sam.cope.king
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ProtectedSeas
Marine Monitor (M2) Senior Scientist
- 0 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 5 Groups
- @jmflenniken
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
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- 3 Groups
- @Halima_Hassan
- | She
Halima Hassan is a geographer, environmentalist, educator, and climate change activist who is passionate about bridging science, community, and conservation.
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- 6 Groups
Chief Marketing Officer 🌎 Building Transparency through Data & Storytelling
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- @muganyizi
- | Mr.
Muganyizi Melchior Kamuganga is a Tanzanian youth passionate about creating positive social changes. He is a professional Wildlife manager and passionate beekeeper. He is a member of the Lightup impact community in east Africa, Masterpeace global network, Metis and Ashoka alumni
- 0 Resources
- 8 Discussions
- 8 Groups
- @angelabenard
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Species360
With a strong background in donor relations and community engagement, Angela is committed to fostering partnerships that enhance conservation efforts. They hold a Master’s degree in Public Administration and is an active member of the nonprofit community.
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- 3 Groups
- @Cwoodman
- | She, her
I work between academia and private technology development to meet the needs of conservation researchers. I am an owner of a conservation technology company and a PhD who researches how to save imperiled wild populations.
- 0 Resources
- 7 Discussions
- 3 Groups
University of Suffolk
Researcher on the 8 Primates Project
PhD student- biodiversity monitoring using acoustic data
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- @Durgananda
- | He
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Article
We are thrilled to start a brand new group, the Latin America Community, and introduce the new Group Leaders for the 2024-2025 term: Vanesa Reyes and Juan Sebastián Ulloa Chacón. // Estamos muy contentos de iniciar un...
27 September 2024
Article
The Boring Fund: Origin Story
Stephanie O'Donnell
The story of the Boring Fund and why we're so excited to have it out in the world 🚀
26 September 2024
Careers
Quality Assurance Lead for FieldKit
Lindsay Starke
Join the team at FieldKit, an open-source software and hardware sensor platform, and help us validate the quality and usability of the FieldKit platform.
25 September 2024
Article
Take the 2024 WILDLABS Network Survey
Alex Rood
Shape the future of the WILDLABS network. Take our network survey to input your thoughts, ideas, and feedback for the future of WILDLABS.
19 September 2024
Article
Nature conservation grant writing courses
Frank van der Most
Search and you will find plenty of grant writing courses, for scientists, non-profits and others. We are collecting them here, with a particular focus on grant writing for nature conservation.
19 September 2024
Article
The Boring Fund 2024: Further Information
Adrien Pajot
More information for those interested in applying for The Boring Fund, supporting up to 10 projects with $50,000. Read carefully ahead of submitting your proposal! Applications close on 9 October, 2024.
16 September 2024
Funding
The Boring Fund 2024
Adrien Pajot
The Boring Fund supports the essential but overlooked aspects of conservation technology. With the support of Arm, $50,000 in grants will go to critical, foundational activities that will help build a more resilient and...
16 September 2024
Funding
Black and Indigenous Scholars Award in Mammalogy
Sarah Mshanga
Announced Black and Indigenous Scholars Award in Mammalogy
16 September 2024
Careers
7th International Training on Ecohydrology in Tanzania
Sarah Mshanga
Climate Finance and Nature Based Solutions: An Ecohydrology Approach
14 September 2024
Article
Funding and Finance Announcement: Introducing a New Group and Its Leaders
Frank van der Most and 1 more
We are thrilled to start a brand new group, Funding and Finance, and introduce the 3 new Group Leaders for the 2024-2025 term: Paul Edonga, Henry Rees, and Frank van der Most.
28 August 2024
Article
Welcome to WILDLABS! Our platform is full of ways to engage with our global conservation technology community and connect you to members, resources, opportunities, events, and more. This quick 5-step guide will help you...
28 August 2024
Funding
The Coral Research & Development Accelerator Platform opened it's Coral Accelerator Program 2024 for internationally collaborating teams to apply with innovative projects ranging from 'novel early-phase' to 'final...
26 August 2024
September 2025
event
Ginevra Bellini
October 2025
November 2025
event
Ginevra Bellini
February 2026
April 2026
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| Hi all. I’m the Environmental Professional Programs specialist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In my role I have the exciting privilege of supporting the next generation... |
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Community Base | 3 hours 14 minutes ago | |
| Hi Both!Thanks for the feedback, I agree it would be nice to have the option for users to subscribe to some form of direct on-site/email notifications for new posts of specific... |
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Funding and Finance, Community Base | 10 hours 7 minutes ago | |
| hi chad, its great to hear from you_its really a great idea and impactful journey in our community having experience in community-led conservation initiatives, working... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Drones, eDNA & Genomics, Emerging Tech, Funding and Finance, Geospatial, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Software Development, Wildlife Crime | 1 day 5 hours ago | |
| Hi everyone :)I’ll be in Kinshasa, DRC from 22 to 27 September as part of the AFRISTART program (Qawafel/RedStart Tunisie), which supports... |
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AI for Conservation, Community Base, East Africa Community, Edge Computing | 1 day 7 hours 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 | 6 days 4 hours ago | |
| Thank you, Henry, and the WILDLABS team, for this excellent opportunity. 🙏We at INITIAM ASBL (DRC) have just submitted our application with the project IDEPROCONA – Digital... |
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Funding and Finance, Community Base | 1 week 5 days ago | |
| Sent to some South African local friends. |
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Community Base, Early Career, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 1 week 6 days ago | |
| How to submit a proposal for the Boring Fund on the Platform ? |
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Community Base, Funding and Finance | 3 weeks ago | |
| Interesting way to get community members contributing to the platform, to learn and share knowledge on GIS-Based conservation |
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Community Base | 3 weeks 4 days ago | |
| Would love to collaborate on this we are curently building agents for conservation Kind regardsOlivier |
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AI for Conservation, Community Base | 1 month ago | |
| ...one of @jared ;) ...I think there are a few biz dev users from other legacy manuf., but yeah, they are not active. |
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Community Base | 1 month ago | |
| Hello Youssef,Yes, let's keep contact. I'm currently looking for good conferences to publish my work, if you are aware of something, please let me know. |
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AI for Conservation, Community Base, Edge Computing | 1 month 2 weeks ago |
Senior Wind Engineering Manager: CrossBoundary Energy
27 June 2023 1:10pm
Techonomy 23: The AI Dilemma
27 June 2023 12:19pm
Techonomy Climate NYC: Solutions that Scale
27 June 2023 11:49am
Sustained Effort: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma
21 June 2023 9:00am
The Wildlife Society Conference
19 June 2023 5:59am
WILDLABS Project Manager
16 June 2023 10:18pm
What DIY and repair resources are you looking for?
16 June 2023 1:20am
Improving battery life in tech tools
13 June 2023 12:09am
14 June 2023 7:16pm
Here's another article I came across about tracking gear powered by animal movement, which would drastically reduce the need for batteries and increase the lifespan of biologging tools. Obviously an incredible innovation that ties into the discussions we've had in the Tracking Progress program about catapulting animal movement ecology tech forward, but also great to think about from a sustainability perspective!
ICCB: Are you going? Are you presenting? Share your tech related activities!
30 March 2023 10:58am
30 March 2023 9:09pm
Marconi and I will be there from Rainforest Connection (RFCx)! RFCx has a booth, so catch us in the exhibitor hall (teaser-there will be giveaways...) - we'll be the ones playing weird and cool animal sounds!
We also submitted 2 abstracts, one on using ecoacoustic monitoring to assess how species respond to climate change in Puerto Rico, and another on using ecoacoustic monitoring to assess effectiveness of restoration sites with maintaining biodiversity levels.
Anddddd finally, we'll be giving a lunch-time workshop (just found our proposal was approved!) on using Arbimon to store, analyze, and interpret ecoacoustic data.
Let's have an ICCB conservation tech happy hour?? Super excited to participate in any/all conservation tech stuff happening!
26 May 2023 8:24pm
I will be there! No booth or anything but I will bring along some FieldKits (both terrestrial and underwater). I would love to meet up for a conservation tech happy hour. I think that is a great idea!
8 June 2023 4:32pm
Did we send you an invite to our workshop? I know you were on the list! We're organising a few networking things, including an event in partnership with EFN, Rufford Foundation, Whitley and CLP - keep night two free for this one!
2023 Esri User Conference
7 June 2023 3:37pm
WILDLABS Conservation Tech Intern (The Inventory)
6 June 2023 10:43am
UNEP Executive Director - Inger Andersen's take on why African nations have the power & tools to re-design a plastic pollution-free future
5 June 2023 1:28pm
Register your #WorldEnvironmentDay Event or Activity and Share it with the World
5 June 2023 1:07pm
Get Involved - World Environment Day events and activities
* UNEP is not is a position to verify the accuracy of information provided about events and activities for World Environment Day *
Download Now: The Sustained Effort Series
31 May 2023 10:00am
10 AI for the Planet Projects you should be excited about
25 May 2023 11:07am
Catch up with The Variety Hour: May 2023
22 May 2023 12:45pm
The Business of Conservation Conference 2023
17 May 2023 8:29am
Field Surveyor
16 May 2023 4:06pm
ICCB 2023 WILDLABS Workshop: Bridging Sectors for Movement Ecology Innovation
9 May 2023 8:37pm
How do I create an aerial survey flight plan for wildlife monitoring?
9 May 2023 9:24am
Programme Development Manager, WILDLABS
WILDLABS
and 1 more
5 May 2023 10:30am
How do I get started with systematic reconnaissance flights (SRFs) for wildlife survey?
4 May 2023 11:00pm
Bluspark - Integrated management platefmorm for protected areas
28 April 2023 9:28pm
What events are you looking forward to this year?
16 January 2023 2:37pm
6 February 2023 10:41am
It's pretty big for NGOs and I would say there is growing involvement from companies? But it's usually those with strong conservation partnerships. The bigger one is World Conservation Congress - but this is only every few years. We've put in a workshop aligned with our movement ecology work, will likely do some talks, and will be hosting side events (both networking and meetings). I'm hearing about quite a lot of other tech events/conversations being organised, so it should be a good place to connect with a good cross section of the conservation tech community.
13 February 2023 5:25pm
The only one I have as a definite so far is the European Vulture Conference, but I'm hoping to find time to go to more!
27 April 2023 5:52am
Here's a new one for your calendar!
Circle the dates for this year's EarthRanger User Conference. Hosted in Cape Town from 1-5 November 2023, the EarthRanger User Conference is a premier global annual event where conservation practitioners worldwide convene to discuss important challenges and solutions. Learn from peers and experts, get hands-on training on the tools to empower your work, and connect with some of the world’s leading conservationists and organizations.
For the first time, we’re joining forces with SMART to provide you with even more opportunities to collaborate with those in your field and improve the effectiveness of your wildlife conservation efforts.
Pre-register to secure your spot:
Any questions you'd like answered in our Tech Tutors session: 'How do I create an aerial survey flight plan for wildlife monitoring?'
26 April 2023 8:02am
Exploring barriers and incentives to digital solutions in Natural Resource Management
21 April 2023 11:19am
Catch up with The Variety Hour: April 2023
21 April 2023 10:42am
What conservation and tech podcasts are you listening to?
16 March 2023 8:21pm
10 April 2023 9:15am
I enjoyed this recent episode:
Technology helps scientists discover new species - ABC listen
As pressure on the natural world increases, new technology is bringing fast results as scientists monitor fauna and flora and identify new species.
Transcribed at :
New methods to map nature - ABC listen
As pressure on the natural world increases, new technology is bringing fast results as scientists monitor fauna and flora and identify new species.
featuring amongst others @BlairRCostelloe and @martinwikelski on biologging and other interesting wildlife tech.
12 April 2023 2:35pm
I love Ologies. It's not a super technical podcast, but very enjoyable! Alie covers a myriad of topics and interviews an expert or two each episode. It's a nice way to hear some of the details of different types of jobs, industries and topics.
Ologies Episodes — alie ward
Listen to Ologies on Stitcher, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get podcasts.
19 April 2023 11:00am
Posting this with the caveat that I have NOT listened to this yet so it's not an endorsement. I have skimmed the accompanying article though and found it through Simon Gardener who I swear is the best person to follow on linkedin for relevant enviornment + tech content, so it's relevant and on the 'listen later' list
How AI can help us protect the planet – DW – 03/31/2023
The field of artificial intelligence is growing fast. Not only is it bringing profound changes to the way we live and work, it's also proving to be a powerful tool in the fight against climate change.
How do I get started with Bird Audio processing and classification?
17 April 2023 9:11am
16 June 2023 7:38pm
I am also super keen to see what peeps are interested in here. Maybe a video tutorial series of attempted fixes (e.g. trail cameras; collars) or teardowns? Various hacks and re-batterying (is that a word) tutes? I am considering putting a few basic vids/tutes toghether if anyone's interested, bearing in mind I'll be flubbing my way through most of them! We can all learn together!
Cheers y'all,
Rob