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The WILDLABS Community Base is the ideal place to get oriented with the all that our community platform offers, hear about news and opportunitys, and to meet new friends and collaborators. 

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Welcome to WILDLABS!

WILDLABS Team

29 October 2015 5:16pm

Hello and welcome to the WILDLABS community! With 11,000 members and counting, we want to get to know you a little better. In a couple of...

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Brigitta Keeves

20 May 2025 2:22pm

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.

 

Bartolome Ortiz Viso

5 June 2025 11:16am

Hi everyone! I am a postdoctoral researcher in applied machine learning, working on multimodal data processing. My primary research focus is on applying dual (text and photo) approaches to improve classification and novel category discovery in automatic insect monitoring (currently focusing on moths and hemiptera).  I am based in Spain (University of Granada) but doing a research visit at the moment in the Centre of Ecology and Hydrology in the UK!  Currently looking for postdocs around computational entomology, so feel free to reach out to me and discuss cool projects! See you around!

Ginevra Bellini

5 June 2025 4:19pm

Hi everyone! 

After obtaining my PhD in invasive plants ecology, I decided to switch careers and now I am working as a community manager for the WiNoDa Knowledge Lab, a data competence center hosted at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Natural history museum of Berlin, Germany). Our group offers free educational resources for researchers working with natural science collections and biodiversity data.

I would love to see you at one of our events and I look forward to connecting with this cool community!

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Apply for Free Access to Nature FIRST Conference (innovative solutions for biodiversity monitoring and human-wildlife coexistence)

Nalini

22 May 2025 2:37pm

The European project Nature FIRST is hosting its final conference at Ouwehands Dierenpark in the Netherlands on 25–26 June 2025, and we’re looking to expand our...

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Kim Hendrikse

28 May 2025 4:20pm

Nice!

Thought I'd mention that Wildlife Security Innovations will have a booth there, demonstrating our new multi-camera, local AI camera trap that supports miniature high resolution thermal modules. I will be bringing these along.

Neeltje van Lavieren

31 May 2025 4:21pm

Hi

This is great! 

So just to double check - there is no way to join online? I would love to be part of this conference. 

Thanks, Els van Lavieren

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Evaluation of Global Forest Watch 

Iain McNicol

17 March 2025 4:51pm

Hello all, First of all, I want to introducte myself as a new member of the Wildlabs community.  My name is Iain McNicol and I am the Programme Manager for the Centre...

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Elsa Carla De Grandi

9 April 2025 8:05pm

Hi @iainmcnicol , welcome to WILDLABS! Thanks for posting this on here. I have shared with my colleagues at Fauna & Flora who have some experience (especially with the deforestation alerts) and could maybe provide feedback as well. We also have a page on 'The Inventory' where we're asking people to review various data products, tools, platforms etc including one for Global Forest Watch. As you can see not many reviews currently so it would be great (if possible by anonymising responses etc.) to get the information from your survey and translate this into something we could add to 'The Inventory' for the wider community. Let me know your thoughts on this!

Also is there a closing date for the survey?

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Program Officer / Development Associate

Alex Rood

29 May 2025 6:13pm

CXL is in search of a Program Officer/Development Associate to join our team. This position is critical to the smooth operations of our development and executive team, and will work at the center of a passionate, impact...

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World Wildlife Fund Wildlife Cafe:

Alex Rood

27 May 2025 11:31am

Talia Speaker and I joined the WWF-US wildlife team to discuss how technology is changing the game for wildlife conservation. We covered what the next frontier looks like for the field and how cutting-edge tools are influencing how we protect monitor and protect our planet's...

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Involve our young learners in climate change action.

CathyNj

27 March 2024 3:24pm

I am to present a conference paper this June in Bulgaria. Title of the paper is  "Integrating geospatial techniques into learners' school curriculum to mitigate climate...

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Announcing the WILDLABS Awards 2025 Grantees

WILDLABS Team

20 May 2025 2:32pm

Learn about the 15 selected projects that are working to innovate, scale, and adopt conservation technology for this year’s WILDLABS Awards. 

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Ed Miller

20 May 2025 9:26pm

I am grateful to be involved with Trapper Keeper, one of the projects awarded by WILDLABS. I am proud to be associated with all the amazing projects awarded in 2025! I am excited...
Andrew Quitmeyer

22 May 2025 10:00am

Hooray! Looking forward to another great year of mothing thanks to you all!
Adrien Pajot

26 May 2025 5:25pm

Please, meet the Ambiance team and discuss with them here: 
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The Variety Hour: May 2025

Alex Rood

19 May 2025 3:55pm

You’re invited to the WILDLABS Variety Hour, a monthly event that connects you to conservation tech's most exciting projects, research, and ideas. We can't wait to bring you a whole new season of speakers and...

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Must profit be part of the environmental solution?

Frank van der Most

12 February 2025 10:24pm

In this LinkedIn articlehttps://www.linkedin.com/pulse/moral-dimension-why-profit-must-part-environmental-rich-stockdale-phd-r18se/Rich Stockdale argues for 'yes'. I may not agree...

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Frank van der Most

7 May 2025 8:37am

Hej Travis, . Thank you so much for sharing your experience. And your passion which must be shared by many if not all WildLAbs members! . I think you are summarising the current status of affairs in nature conservation, we build and conserve because it must be done, but it’s clearly not enough. Hence my thought: what if people could earn money ( like, a decent income, or even a lot of money), would that work as a motivator for a massive drive of activities towards nature conservation? You seem to be arriving at a similar conclusion for the sake of tech development, ie for technical innovation. I would seek more innovation in social and economic thinking on nature conservation and how it is organised and financed. Profit seeking could be such an innovation. . Cheers . Frank . PS sorry for my late response. Your message arrived in the midst of mi move from Costa Rica to Spain, so I’ve spent little time on WildLabs and the theme I had I had to spend on my share in organising the upcoming webinar on sustainable income streams for open source projects.
Kim Hendrikse

7 May 2025 9:00am

I think you answered your own question Frank. If grants are out of the question and you actually want results at scale, profit is your only option. For the people/companies with something to offer and no funds in any case.

In my opinion, wildlife initiatives as a commercial target alone I would say is even harder than the more general IT market as the wildlife market is much smaller market with limited funding, especially this year.  So that means that the company is likely going to have to target normal markets to be viable, with wildlife as a side project for them in principle in the most cases. And there's a limited commercial market for wildlife initiatives, so philantrophy would likely also have to be part of the equation.

In today's world with a lot of horrific people with a lot of power, we need to encourage people to realise that success is not just about making money, but also about being a good person and contributing to the planet. Unfortunately, a lot of people with enormous amounts of money and enormous egos seem to equate success only with money and greed. With a few exceptions. We need more exceptions.

Sarah Han-de-Beaux

16 May 2025 8:14am

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. 

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A Conservation Technology Meetup in Botswana!

Adrien Pajot

15 May 2025 11:52am

We are excited to invite you to a special meetup in Maun, Botswana! This is a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow conservation tech enthusiasts, share ideas, and enjoy a relaxed evening together

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Frank van der Most

16 May 2025 9:58am

I wish I could join. Have good memories of Maun and Botswana - like looking into the eyes of a lion, whilst sitting in an open truck parked in the middle of a den of hungry lions.
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Proposing a new group

Diego Montecino-Latorre

30 January 2025 6:59pm

Hi!  Is it possible to propose a new Group? 

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AgTech: Breaking out of silos

Amber Balfour-Cunningham

29 April 2025 6:24am

I am a PhD student an new WILDLABS member and am loving it so far! Especially the WILDLABS.NET Variety Hour YouTube recordings and the different discussion groups!I loved the...

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From Field to Funder: How to communicate impact?

Léa Smadja

16 April 2025 3:51pm

Conservation involves a mosaic of actors — field practitioners, local communities, funders, government agencies, scientists, and more.Each one needs different levels of...

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Frank van der Most

17 April 2025 5:04pm

Great questions @LeaOpenForests !

I don't have concrete answers since I am not a stakeholder in any project in particular. Based on experience with research on the potential for a similar one-stop-shop for science metrics, I would suggest that there is no simple solution: different actors do need and have different views on presenting and viewing impact. This means possible gaps between what one group of actors need and what the other is willing or able to produce. One can hope, search and aim for sufficient overlap, but I don't see how they would necessarily or naturally overlap.

Still, I would guess that if there are dimensions of overlap, they are time, space and actor-networks 

Amber Balfour-Cunningham

28 April 2025 3:18pm

I have posted about this in a different group, but I love boosting the impact of my communication through use of visuals. 

Free graphics relating to conservation technology and the environment are available at:

  1. National Environmental Science Program Graphics Library

    Graphics below of a feral cat with a tracking collar and a cat grooming trap are examples of symbols available courtesy of the NESP Resilient Landscapes Hub, nesplandscapes.edu.au.

  2. UMCES Integration and Application Network Media Library
Feral cat with tracking collar courtesy of the NESP Resilient Landscapes Hub, nesplandscapes.edu.au

Cat grooming trap graphic courtesy of the NESP Resilient Landscapes Hub, nesplandscapes.edu.au

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