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:
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- @TaliaSpeaker
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WILDLABS & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
I'm the WILDLABS Research Specialist at WWF-US



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- @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





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- @mclapham
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BearID Project
Conservation biologist using camera traps to develop automated methods of photoID

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- @Rosalia_Kaluki
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Passionate about conservation and Nature
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I am biologist, I have studied wild life and ethnobiology at Amazon and caimans in Brazil
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Studying Biodiversity, Wildlife, and Ecosystem Health @ UEdi. Professionally software engineer, program manager, developer educator


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University of Washington
Working towards community-focused conservation tech
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- @cleo
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Southern African Wildlife College
I am ecologist working in African conservation areas who loves wildlife & wild landscapes. I increasingly recognize that conservation is about people, especially those living in & around protected areas. Finding ways to benefit marginalized people is my passion.

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- @vandita_shukla
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PhD candidate studying drone flight planning for enabling tracking and identification of individual characteristics of wildlife; member of the WildDrone, an MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research
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- @Ariel
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Ariel is passionate about centering both our environment and social justice and using data to support nature-based solutions to the poly-crisis, and they are particularly interested in mycelium, soil health, forestry, agriculture, ecosystems, conservation, and restoration.
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- @Jeffm
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Founder & CEO of we.are.tohorā, creating a community that cares about whales, the environment and each other.
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- @dterlip
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Career technologist looking to move into the conservation space
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- @Sarvagya
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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
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
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
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 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
Announced Black and Indigenous Scholars Award in Mammalogy
16 September 2024
Climate Finance and Nature Based Solutions: An Ecohydrology Approach
14 September 2024
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
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
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
Just a quick post because I happened to run into this. Link in the body text
22 August 2024
We are thrilled to welcome our 3 new Group Leaders for the 2024-2025 term, Vance Russell, Ahmed Junaid, and Elsa Carla De Grandi!
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I agree Adventina. I am also interested in "How has the climate variability affected the trend of BAT species in the ecosystem? and respond on their increase and (or) extinction.... |
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Climate Change, Community Base, Geospatial, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 3 months 1 week ago | |
Hi Colleen,Thank you for sharing this exciting opportunity. I am Lucie, International Development Manager of Natural Solutions. We are a company at the intersection of... |
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Citizen Science, Early Career, Community Base | 3 months 3 weeks ago | |
Hi Hugo! A WILDLABS App has certainly been on our wish-list of things we could build. Depending on funding availability in the future of course. At the moment we are working... |
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Community Base | 4 months 1 week ago | |
After discussing with a potential applicant for 2025, I realised that I never shared the stats about the number of applications per category. Here they are: 35 projects for 7... |
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Community Base | 4 months 1 week ago | |
Hi Mark, thanks for responding. I think you've identified one of the most difficult parts of research climbing: maintaining your climbing skills and knowledge between field... |
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Community Base, Camera Traps, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Early Career | 4 months 1 week ago | |
I am thrilled to share that I have completed the six-month Women in Conservation Technology program. I am Sarah Mshanga, and I hold a... |
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Acoustics, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Community Base, Early Career, East Africa Community | 4 months 3 weeks ago | |
They seem to be a little bit far apart. But It occurred to me that a python would be a tremendous predator if you lived in a submerged... |
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Community Base | 5 months 1 week ago | |
Hi everyone.Please help me understand how can monitoring and evaluation tools be designed and implemented to assess the effectiveness and... |
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Early Career, East Africa Community, Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education | 5 months 4 weeks ago | |
About the Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes (CSFL)Galvanising research and teaching to deliver... |
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Community Base, Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Funding and Finance, Protected Area Management Tools | 6 months ago | |
This is a thread for anyone who has questions about AI for Conservation Office Hours 2025.We're once again teaming up with Dan Morris from... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Community Base, Geospatial | 6 months 1 week ago | |
Wednesday, 30/10/2024Eighth and last day for WILDLABS at COP. Innovation Expo Fourth and last rotation of the Innovation Expo:Observatorio de Derechos Territoriales de... |
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Community Base | 6 months 2 weeks ago | |
Oops, sorry about that. I wrote a reply a few weeks ago, and I am pretty sure I clicked the button, but apparently something went wrong. So, another attemptThank you for your... |
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Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Funding and Finance, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Latin America Community | 6 months 2 weeks ago |