Group curators
Talia Speaker
- @TaliaSpeaker
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WILDLABS
World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Alex Rood
- @alexrood
- | she/her
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 WILDLABS Research Specialist at WWF-US
- 23 Resources
- 62 Discussions
- 25 Groups
- @alexrood
- | she/her
WILDLABS & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
I'm the WILDLABS Communications and Community Management Associate Specialist at WWF-US
- 114 Resources
- 78 Discussions
- 7 Groups
- @AudreyLooby
- | she/her
University of Victoria
I am Banting postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria, focusing on coastal soundscape ecology and underwater noise pollution. I am also one of the co-leads of FishSounds.net.
- 1 Resources
- 5 Discussions
- 5 Groups
GreenLab
- 0 Resources
- 20 Discussions
- 8 Groups
University of St Andrews
I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. My research is focused on developing acoustic species classifiers for marine mammals worldwide.
- 0 Resources
- 2 Discussions
- 6 Groups
- 0 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 1 Groups
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 5 Groups
- @srullman
- | He, His, Him
Earthwatch Institute
Director of Research at Earthwatch Institute since 2013. Terrestrial ecologist in academic training, and champion of participatory science.
- 0 Resources
- 0 Discussions
- 3 Groups
Control and Automation Engineer, currently enrolled in the Automation and Systems Postgraduate Program at Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil to obtain a Master's degree. Areas of interest: Multi Agent Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics.
- 0 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 4 Groups
I'm a PhD student at UW working with the Smithsonian and Center for One Health Research. I develop models to predict and explain zoonotic disease patterns, with a strong emphasis on how these diseases impact wildlife populations and communities sharing the same landscape.
- 0 Resources
- 9 Discussions
- 12 Groups
Monitoring and Evidence Manager, Kent Wildlife Trust
- 0 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 6 Groups
Founder of Owl Sense, we create low cost, long running audio recorders.
- 0 Resources
- 6 Discussions
- 3 Groups
- @tobiaspetri
- | he/him
Schäuffelhut Berger GmbH
data science & algorithmic developmentfor movement ecology
- 10 Resources
- 33 Discussions
- 10 Groups
PhD student in animal biology working on AI for wildlife conservation
- 0 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 7 Groups
Funding
Roddenberry Foundation’s Catalyst Fund
Roddenberry Foundation
Apply now for $2,500–$15,000 USD grants for early-stage ideas or projects that address global challenges.
4 October 2022
Funding
NSF Activate Fellowship
Carly Batist
The Activate Fellows supported by NSF will be scientists & engineers from a variety of backgrounds & regions across the U.S. who will translate research breakthroughs to new products & services with broad...
26 September 2022
Link
WILDLABS Digest: 23 September 2022
Stephanie O'Donnell
Our latest WILDLABS Community digest has just hit inboxes! Don't have time to keep up with everything that's happening in the conservation tech world? This email is for you!
23 September 2022
Article
Last year, WILDLABS published the first global, community-sourced assessment of the State of Conservation Technology, which evolved from our annual community survey. Take the 2022 survey to help us build from this...
14 September 2022
Community Announcement
Starting today: Join the 7th annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge!
Stephanie O'Donnell
Our annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge is a weeklong celebration of our community and all the exciting and innovative ways you’re using conservation tech in your work. This week, take a photo, share it on Twitter...
6 September 2022
Article
Introducing WILDBEAR Awardee Alyssa Bohart
Ellie Warren
Get to know Alyssa Bohart, our first WILDBEAR Award recipient, who works with GPS-collared bears in Canada.
22 July 2022
Article
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18 July 2022
Careers
Conservation Data Coordinator
Giraffe Conservation Foundation (GCF)
Giraffe Conservation Foundation has now opened this opportunity to qualified candidates willing to work remotely. The position is desktop-based and the successful candidate can work from anywhere in the world to provide...
15 July 2022
Careers
Service Designer
Catherine Greene
Love design, passionate about conversation? Want to make sure that technologies that are being developed actually meet the needs of the people who use them? Come and work for us!
13 July 2022
Article
Writing Bootcamp: Shaping Your Story
Ellie Warren
In this series, we'll share tips from our editorial team to help you get started writing great case studies, articles, and blog posts right here on WILDLABS! In our third post, Ellie Warren shares advice on structuring...
7 July 2022
Article
Writing Bootcamp: Questions for Writers
Ellie Warren
In this series, we'll share tips from our editorial team to help you get started writing great case studies, articles, and blog posts right here on WILDLABS! In this second post, Ellie Warren shares the questions that...
6 July 2022
Article
Writing Bootcamp: What content type fits my story?
Ellie Warren
In this series, we'll share tips from our editorial team to help you get started writing great case studies, articles, and blog posts right here on WILDLABS! In this first post, Ellie Warren shares how understanding...
1 July 2022
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June 2025
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World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
October 2025
September 2024
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Vanesa Reyes
event
Vanesa Reyes
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| Once again this year, we observed a well-balanced distribution of project types, with technology adoption and application being the most common. This aligns closely with the... |
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Community Base | 1 month 4 weeks ago | |
| Better later than never, opening a thread to share with you some statistics about the applications received for The Boring Fund 2024 as we... |
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Community Base | 1 month 4 weeks ago | |
| Yep see you on friday |
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Geospatial, Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Community Base, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech, Open Source Solutions, Protected Area Management Tools | 2 months ago | |
| Good afternoon Stephanie!It is sad to see you go, but very exciting to hear that you will be on adventures new very soon! I wish you all the best in your future endeavours and... |
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Community Base | 2 months ago | |
| Good morning JocelynThank you very much for your comment, this is proving to be very useful advice and thank you so much for setting me on the right path!! This is very exciting!!... |
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Animal Movement, Citizen Science, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Marine Conservation, Drones, Community Base, Geospatial | 2 months ago | |
| Hi, Thank you for your message I think there's some kind of application for this app not by itself by complementing technologies like NABIT, mentioned in an earlier comment.... |
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Emerging Tech, Community Base | 2 months ago | |
| I love the emails that lead me here. |
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Community Base | 2 months 1 week ago | |
| Hi everyone, I’m excited to become a member of Wild Lab! I’m currently working on my master’s thesis, focusing on dormouse conservation. My research explores the behavioral... |
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AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Community Base, Data management and processing tools, Early Career, Geospatial | 2 months 2 weeks ago | |
| It's great to see so much interest in presenting at this webinar. We have also received interest through direct messages and meetings that we've happened to have had. Thank you... |
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Open Source Solutions, Community Base, Funding and Finance | 2 months 3 weeks ago | |
| Linkedin mainly. iNaturalist and eBird ofc but these are more communities than real social networks. But, and this is a real advice, a good RSS feed reader with all your... |
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AI for Conservation, Community Base | 2 months 3 weeks ago | |
| Hi Savi, Apologies for the delayed response. I have finished my Marters in AI and ML. Happy to share. Soumya |
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Community Base, Early Career | 3 months ago | |
| Hi @eugenegalaxy , Filip at #Octophin Digital here. The whole Platform is built ontop of the Drupal framework (with many custom features) but most of the frontend like the menu is... |
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Community Base | 3 months 1 week ago |
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Thanks for your thoughts on the importance of sharing more about failure in our unique sector. You bring up some very valid points @Frank_van_der_Most and I think the perspective of 'learning by doing' is quite essential. I've shared below some stories I've covered from our East Africa community that touch on this and the perspective that has emerged has been on learning from these experiences and developing with more insight to solve conservation challenges more effectively. I hope you will find these interesting and useful.
19 April 2024 8:06am
Hi @Frank_van_der_Most,
great point and I will address this in my little talk next week.
Greetings from Austria,
Robin
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Steph, yes, I gathered as much myself, but I still wanted to put it on the agenda. It links to the bigger problem in nature conservation, and especially funding : all projects are required to be effective and successful, scalable, profitable and so on (not to mention the paper trail that applicants need to produce to prove it ). It makes sense from the donors' perspective, because if a project is not at least one of these, then it is a waste of money an how do they explain that to the public and the donors' donors. On the other hand, the IMHO ( H for honest ) over emphasis on this requirement is counterproductive and it does not fit in the world of tech development.
To start with the latter, as we all know, in the world of tech VC and startups, people are very used to the idea that a tech invention is not successful. I've read that if you haven't had two failed startups behind you, you're a better contender with your next one. 9 Out of 10 will fail and the remaining one will more than make up for the loss, is the idea. This way of looking at projects fits very well in this tech oriented forum.
Then the counter productive part : with a funding climate like that, who is going to take risks with tech development for nature conservation? Seriously, anybody reading this: if you raise your hand, please do get in touch, because I am curious how you look at the issue and how you deal with it. Whereas I do agree that nature conservation as a whole needs to be successful, I don't believe that the sponsors' stress on it for individual projects is successful itself. Nature's degradation has developed so far ( call me a pessimist ), that we need to take risks and find out if ( and hope that ) what works for silicon valley can work for nature.
Kudos for your attempt at the 'Technical difficulties'. I didn't know about it. Maybe we ( but I mean you, of course ;-) can tinker with the formula. Ask people to talk about how they overcame problems in some detail, because then it is a success story again. ( They could earn a badge! ) And if the recording is an issue, then don't record, or work on anonymity with temporary accounts, TOR, voice scramblers and the camera off. Maybe people are willing to write about their failures instead of doing a live presentation. That way, one has absolute control over anonymizing individuals and hiding the project from being identified. Little risk of a slip of the tongue.