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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Lead Estuary Science Coordinator at the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and Masters Student at Rutgers University in the Department of Ecology and Evolution. Using bioacoustics in tidal marsh ecosystems for restoration and conservation.

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IWT Challenge Fund Evidence grants, ranging from £20,000 to £1,500,000, is a UK government grants scheme that provides support to innovative and scalable projects to reduce pressure on wildlife from illegal trade and,...
20 August 2024
Join us in celebrating this year’s Judging Panele Award winners!
19 August 2024
Join us in celebrating this year’s Community Choice Award winners!
15 August 2024
The Catalyst Fund makes grants between $2,500–$15,000 to anyone, anywhere in the world who has an early-stage idea or project that addresses pressing global challenges. There is no deadline for this opportunity,...
13 August 2024
Vote for your favorite submissions that best demonstrate conservation impact, novel innovation/discovery, and strong storytelling of the work and the sector.
12 August 2024
Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund (CEPF) calls for letters of inquiry (LOI) regarding proposals that address biodiversity conservation related to climate change in selected areas in eligible project countries.
11 August 2024
The Whitley Fund for Nature opened its annual call for proposals from mid-career grassroots conservationists, located in and nationals of a country in the global South.
11 August 2024
The National Geographic Society calls for storytelling project proposals for short film, writing, data visualization or other means, addressing 'the greatest questions of our time'
11 August 2024
The Forests & Communities Initiative ( FCI ) calls organizations led by indigenous peoples and local communities for expressions of interests to 'manage a regional call for projects'.
11 August 2024
On the final day of the #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge, we wrap up looking at past and current submissions that feature the fastest growing areas of conservation tech. Today’s topic: bioacoustics!
9 August 2024
We’re taking a look at past and current submissions that feature the fastest growing areas of conservation tech: movement ecology, AI, aquatic conservation, and bioacoustics. Today’s topic: aquatic conservation!
8 August 2024
We are thrilled to welcome our 3 new Group Leaders for the 2024-2025 term, Bri Johns, Amanda Matthes, and Pen-Yuan Hsing!
8 August 2024
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Hi everyone,So excited to be here. Based in Vienna Austria and working as a Founder for Stop The Desert, assisting farmers who need training and funds to transition to... |
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Community Base | 12 hours 37 minutes ago | |
This is wonderful, thanks for sharing! |
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Community Base, Early Career, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 11 hours 15 minutes ago | |
Thanks Frank. |
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Funding and Finance, Community Base | 12 hours 54 minutes ago | |
Hello HenryCan someone submit more than one application with different ideas? |
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Funding and Finance, Community Base | 2 days ago | |
How to submit a proposal for the Boring Fund on the Platform ? |
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Community Base, Funding and Finance | 2 days 5 hours ago | |
Interesting way to get community members contributing to the platform, to learn and share knowledge on GIS-Based conservation |
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Community Base | 5 days 23 hours ago | |
Would love to collaborate on this we are curently building agents for conservation Kind regardsOlivier |
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AI for Conservation, Community Base | 1 week 6 days ago | |
...one of @jared ;) ...I think there are a few biz dev users from other legacy manuf., but yeah, they are not active. |
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Community Base | 2 weeks 1 day ago | |
Hello Youssef,Yes, let's keep contact. I'm currently looking for good conferences to publish my work, if you are aware of something, please let me know. |
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AI for Conservation, Community Base | 3 weeks 6 days ago | |
I thought you might find this model of connecting tech start-ups and developers to end users through Innovation Groups interesting and... |
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Community Base | 1 month 2 weeks ago | |
Support the Cartographer Cause! Hi there,I am on a mission to empower children and communities through maps, GIS — helping people better... |
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Climate Change, Community Base, Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Geospatial | 1 month 2 weeks ago | |
Thank you for your reply, ChadI meant 10 as a whole, indeed. Perhaps you see your post in one group, but since it is tagged for all groups, I assumed you meant 10 in total.In your... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Camera Traps, Citizen Science, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Drones, eDNA & Genomics, Emerging Tech, Funding and Finance, Geospatial, Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Software Development, Wildlife Crime | 1 month 3 weeks ago |
Request for Tender: Improving Access to Learning and Resources on WILDLABS.NET
18 July 2024 3:48pm
Malaysia Meet Up?
11 July 2024 6:34am
11 July 2024 6:38pm
Thanks so much, Alex!
Thoughts on new MSc in Conservation Technology
24 May 2024 3:54pm
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.
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
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.
Wild Incubator Tech | Funding Opportunity
27 June 2024 9:47am
Enter to win a free thermal camera!
26 June 2024 5:38pm
Catch up with The Variety Hour: June 2024
20 June 2024 11:37am
FFN award, $50K each, for three individuals ( 18-35 years old )
19 June 2024 5:08pm
Research in community-based conservation programs: best practices & challenges
24 May 2024 9:57am
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!
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
18 June 2024 8:59am
Thank you Frank for your comments! And no worries, any pointer to info might lead to something relevant, I will google it through ;-)
cheers
Yanna
Bezos Earth Fund, AI for Climate and Nature Grand Challenge call for $50K-2M projects
12 June 2024 2:58pm
Job opportunity
Are you attending SMART Global Congress 2024?
22 February 2024 11:13am
20 March 2024 4:32pm
Here is a quick report of what we have learnt there:
21 March 2024 9:48pm
Awesome, thanks for the summary!
8 June 2024 7:43am
Hey @antoineede ,
I am not sure about that yet video recordings are available or not but you can visit this: SMART Global Congress 2024 | BluePrism
May be here you will get some of the recorded videos to watch.
VIHAR-2024 deadline extension, June 30th (Interspeech satellite event)
5 June 2024 10:30am
5 June 2024 3:05pm
Thanks for sharing this @nkundiushuti ! I think this post would be better suited as an event, that way it will show up on the WILDLABS event calendar page. Let me know if you have any questions on how to make an event post! You just click the +Post button in the top right corner, then click "event."
7 June 2024 8:29am
hi Alex!! I already posted the event, I just wanted to posted an update: the deadline was extended.
7 June 2024 1:45pm
Fantastic!!
Where do I go with technical questions about this platform?
5 June 2024 4:52pm
5 June 2024 6:03pm
@JakeBurton is the go-to person for all questions and problems relating to the website! Jake, can you help with this?
We're in the process of updating some of the content on the website, so thank you for drawing our attention to this!
5 June 2024 6:33pm
Thanks, @alexrood !
6 June 2024 8:20am
Hi @Frank_van_der_Most thanks for flagging that old/broken link. I have updated it to send to this thread here - https://wildlabs.net/discussion/new-platform-help-troubleshooting-bugs
Although as Alex mentioned feel free to come directly in future to me if you have an issue instead. I will reply to your DM!
Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation call for proposals
5 June 2024 10:01pm
UK's ISPF offers ≤ £80.000 grants for international research collaborations
5 June 2024 6:01pm
ICI calls for €20-25M project applications for Colombia
5 June 2024 5:50pm
New WILDLABS Funding & Finance group
5 June 2024 3:24pm
5 June 2024 4:14pm
6 June 2024 1:38am
6 June 2024 4:16am
Announcing: BeetlePalooza 2024
31 May 2024 9:00pm
FSCF call for ≤ $25K threatened species projects
29 May 2024 3:16pm
GENZ in STEM Episode 10: Conservation technology, the meaningful career you may have never heard of
28 May 2024 6:09pm
NCTFJ call for JM$ 500-5000K proposals
26 May 2024 5:05pm
WILDLABS Conservation Tech Meetup, Cambridge
24 May 2024 10:58am
🌊🐋 Join the Coastal and Marine Wildlife Working Group of The Wildlife Society! 🦈🐢
23 May 2024 10:53pm
Wildlife Data and Technology Side Events at World Biodiversity Forum 2024
23 May 2024 9:16pm
ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES WORKSHOP 2024
23 May 2024 9:01pm
Who's attending the World Biodiversity Forum in Davos?
20 May 2024 9:50pm
22 May 2024 8:29am
Sounds great.
At what day will you present your talk?
Greetings from Austria,
Robin
22 May 2024 5:39pm
We'll be presenting Wednesday morning as part of session 10.1b on "Integrating earth observations and biological tools in ecology and evolution to cogenerate knowledge towards meeting the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework targets." For the side events, we're planning tentatively for a social Monday evening (following the welcome Apéro) and a meeting Wednesday during or after lunch on leveraging animal movement to meet conservation/policy goals.
We'd love to see you!
International Elephant Foundation call for $15K projects
22 May 2024 5:09pm
Save Our Seas, small grant call (±$5K)
19 May 2024 8:05pm
REDAA call for £1-1.5M projects
19 May 2024 5:03pm
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!