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Speakers Wanted for Tech Panel ($)

Asia Murphy

2 August 2024 5:41pm

Hello! We are excited to announce that this year's Black Mammalogists Week events will be held September 15-21, 2024. This will be the third such virtual event hosted by Black...

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Esther Githinji

8 August 2024 1:07pm

Hi Asia @blackmammalogistsweek :) 

Pleasure to connect with you! I'm part of the WILDLABS team here, supporting our East Africa Community.

Thanks for sharing details on the Black Mammalogists Week events which sound exciting, informative and vital for amplifying the voices and perspectives of Black mammalogists across the world. I'd love to invite you to share the events on our Events page here for visibility with our wider community. 

Additionally, for the September 16th tech panel, I'd like to suggest a few conservation tech practitioners/mammalogists here on WILDLABS:

Hope this information is useful! 

Best wishes :) 

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Volunteering in Bioacoustics

Cesar Rouer

10 July 2024 9:46am

Hi everyone! I have just joined Wildlabs and I am deeply passionate about bioacoustics and biodiversity conservation. I have been following various impactful work in the field...

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East Africa Community Announcement: Introducing our New East Africa Group Leaders

Agripina Cletus and 2 more

24 July 2024 2:30pm

We are thrilled to welcome two new Group Leaders, Catherine Njore (Kenya) and Agriphina Cletus (Tanzania), to our East Africa Community! For the next year, they’ll help curate resources and engagement activities to grow...

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Alex Rood

24 July 2024 1:36pm

So honoured to have you both as our first EVER East Africa group leaders! I'm so excited to see where you take the group over your 12 month term :)
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Maungakiekie Songbird

Iain Hook

23 July 2024 11:03pm

Like to introduce to you Maungakiekie Songbird - a urban based community project that has the goal to enhance the natural habitat around One Tree Hill (large park...

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Participate in the 2024 #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge!

Natalie Peoples

22 July 2024 5:06pm

Participate in our annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge from August 5 to 9 by sharing photos and videos of how you use technology in your conservation work. 

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Vanesa Reyes

17 July 2024 4:17pm

Looking forward to seeing all the amazing pictures and videos, and learning the stories behind them!
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Catch up with The Variety Hour: July 2024

Alex Rood

22 July 2024 2:36pm

This month, we hear about an upcoming initiative to enhance wildlife tracking through the deployment of new satellites, how radar can address snare detection hurdles, using ChatGPT for wildlife monitoring, and...

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Malaysia Meet Up?

Aaron Moy

11 July 2024 6:34am

Hello! I am a conservation technologist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I’m fairly new to WildLabs and was wondering if anyone is based here or coming through KL and would like...

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Alex Rood

11 July 2024 3:18pm

Hey Aaron! I'm Alex on the WILDLABS Community/Comms team. I'll go ahead and share this call out on our socials to try and increase reach!

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Thoughts on new MSc in Conservation Technology

Emma Higgins

24 May 2024 3:54pm

Hello everyone, We are in the process of developing a new MSc in Conservation Technology at my university and would welcome your feedback. If you would be willing to give...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

29 May 2024 12:44pm

Building on Frank's comments, I'd also think about including some conversation about the ethical use of technology - Trishant's talk at Tech Tutors a little while ago sparked a really important conversation here in our community, one that would be valueable to have with your students. 

Emma Higgins

25 June 2024 9:19am

Hello, 

Thanks for your comments both, and the information, this is really helpful. I agree correct use and validation is so important here. And thank you for the contact for Kate, the course looks really interesting. 

Thank you for your offer, Frank, I'll send an email through. 

 

Best, 

 

Emma 

Alistair Stewart

29 June 2024 6:15am

It would be great to address data collection, handling and storage. It starts with keeping good records of field deployments so that devices can be refound and helps at the time of analysis and reporting and so studies can be reproduced. Having an understanding of metadata standards for data types as these are often overlooked when projects are starting up. Knowing if there are existing databases or repositories for your data or if you will have to 'roll your own' (something more than an Excel spreadsheet, or at least knowing the potential pitfalls of relying on spreadsheets). That would be a great advantage when entering the workforce and working in this field.

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Research in community-based conservation programs: best practices & challenges

Yanna Vogiazou

24 May 2024 9:57am

A practice-based research project: I am carrying out a qualitative research project to better understand the challenges and best practices when designing and...

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Yanna Vogiazou

14 June 2024 5:49pm

Hi Frank,

First of all my apologies, I thought I replied to your suggestion about a couple of weeks ago, but looks like it didn't go through! 

Thank you, I am already interviewing people at WildHub and it has been very interesting. 

My work does relate to technology, but to the aspect of adoption of new innovative solutions and tools. In this context, I would love to talk to professionals who have worked on "citizen science" projects with local communities. Potentially also wildlife monitoring technologies that are meant to be used by local communities beyond the scope of a particular program or funded research. Please let me know if you have any experience in this area or feel free to suggest anyone who might have and would be open to share some reflections :-) Thank you! 

Frank van der Most

17 June 2024 4:42am

Hi Yanna,

No worries about the delay. Good that you already had found WildHub

I'm afraid that I cannot help you any further with concrete contacts ... uh ... well, it is a long shot, but in early 2020 Osa Conservation was trying to get their visitors ( and who knows, also the local population ) to participate in iNaturalist. Don't pin me on this, but I vaguely remember there were some token 'prizes' for x, y or z observations, like stickers or so. Also, I don't know if it was Osa Conservation's own campaign or that it came from iNaturalist.

cheers

Frank

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