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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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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- @Gody
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Godfrey Nyangaresi, a dedicated Protection Manager with 12+ years of wildlife conservation experience. Skilled in technologies, administration, and law enforcement, he leads protection efforts at STEP, ensuring the sustainable conservation of elephants in southern Tanzania.
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Director of Spatial Planning and Innovation Nature Conservancy of Canada
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- @CarlosAbrahams
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Baker Consultants
Director of Bioacoustics and Senior Lecturer



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WildTrack
Research, development and implementation of non-invasive montoring for endangered species



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- @RHugtenburg
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Student at Aberystwyth University. Bug Fanatic🪲. Worked at Octophin Digital for my industrial year placement 🐙.
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- @Mary_Waithira
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I am a conservation enthusiast who aims at learning more about conservation and its technology. My research interests lie in wildlife conservation in anthropogenic landscapes.
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- @kara_birk
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Advancing the international partner engagement work of ABALOBI, a tech platform aimed at integrating small-scale fishers into information and resource networks.
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- @bcknr
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Drone Operator and Tech Developer


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Law student
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Teaching an undergraduate Conservation+Tech training program at UC Berkeley
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Community Announcement
We've wrapped our first AI for Conservation Office Hours, a new programme where we set up 1:1 sessions with conservationists using or thinking about using AI so they could receive expert guidance from data scientists at...
14 December 2021
Community Announcement
Today is the launch of our first annual State of Conservation Technology Report! Explore insights from this first-ever global, community-sourced assessment of the state of the field.
13 December 2021
Community Announcement
Last year, WILDLABS evolved our annual community survey into a comprehensive assessment of the State of Conservation Technology, which will be published in the coming weeks. Take the 2021 survey to help us build from...
19 November 2021
Russell E. Train Fellowships invites applicants pursuing a master’s or doctoral degree in conservation to receive financial support for studies and field research. Applicants can apply to attend any university around...
4 November 2021
Prince William announces the first ever finalists for the EarthShot Prize, one of the most prestigious environment awards in history. The finalists will receive support to scale their impactful solutions to...
28 October 2021
Welcome to WILDLABS' new editorial series, Technical Difficulties, an exploration of conservation tech challenges, failures, and lessons learned. Throughout this connected series written by conservation technology...
30 August 2021
Our friends at the Conservation Leadership Programme are proud to announce the 2022 Team Awards. Applications are now being accepted from early-career conservationists leading critical projects involving threatened and...
8 July 2021
Community Announcement
Vulcan is conducting a survey in partnership with EMC Research and with support from WILDLABS about the impacts of COVID-19 on conservation and implications for conservation tech. Learn more about what we're hearing...
5 May 2021
Community Announcement
Vulcan is conducting a survey in partnership with EMC Research and with support from WILDLABS about the impacts of COVID-19 on conservation and implications for conservation tech. Take the survey to share your thoughts...
23 April 2021
The Society for Conservation Biology is now accepting applications for their 2021 Graduate Student Research Fellowship Awards. These $1000 awards will support field work, including travel, materials, or equipment...
1 April 2021
Join the sixth annual WILDLABS #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge from February 24th through World Wildlife Day on March 3rd to share your conservation tech work with us! Use the hashtag #Tech4Wildlife throughout the week...
24 February 2021
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The EarthShot Prize will award five, one million-pound prizes each year for the next ten years, providing at least 50 solutions to the world’s greatest environmental problems by 2030.
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Connecting the Dots: A discussion on Private and Public Partnership and driving impact for our world
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Am helping a conservation project use iNaturalist for their work in bio-diversity monitoring and also citizen science, STEM program with... |
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Community Base, Citizen Science, East Africa Community | 1 year 8 months ago | |
Hi all! Our sustainability series, Sustained Effort, officially wrapped this month. The finale shared on WILDLABS focuses on this exact topic - finding the smallest possible ways... |
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Climate Change, Community Base | 1 year 8 months ago | |
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Climate Change, Community Base, East Africa Community, Emerging Tech, Software Development | 1 year 9 months ago | ||
@richardturere Hello :) and a warm welcome to WILDLABS! Here is the link to @Lekato Samuel Lekato - Founder and Chairman, Enduata Emaa CBO. Sam is interested in conservation... |
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Citizen Science, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Human-Wildlife Conflict | 1 year 9 months ago | |
Hi everyone! Quick coordinating update - whatsapp group! We can't wait to see you at ICCB in just a few days. We have a whatsapp chat with wildlabs folks attending - dm... |
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Community Base | 1 year 10 months ago | |
Hi Lev,We always need more hands in conservation, from whichever field! Engineering, computer science, AI/ML, ecology, environmental science, communications, statisticians, etc.... |
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Community Base, Data management and processing tools, Marine Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools | 1 year 10 months ago | |
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-... |
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Community Base | 1 year 11 months ago | |
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... |
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Climate Change, Community Base | 1 year 11 months ago | |
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,... |
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Community Base | 1 year 11 months ago | |
Hello all! Bluspark is a plateform that allows natural area managers such as natural parks or reserves to optimize their day to day... |
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Citizen Science, Community Base, Connectivity, Conservation Tech Training and Education, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Protected Area Management Tools, Software Development | 2 years ago | |
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... |
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Community Base | 2 years ago | |
Hey everyone,On Thursday 11th May, Howard Frederick from Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute will be covering a Tech... |
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Community Base, East Africa Community, Protected Area Management Tools | 2 years ago |