Powerful conservation tech tools are gathering more data in the field than ever before. But without equally powerful and effective data management and processing tools, that data - no matter how groundbreaking or interesting - will not be able to reach its full potential for impact.
Data management can sometimes seem intimidating to conservationists, especially those just getting started in the world of conservation tech or experimenting with new data collection methods. While every community member's workflow and preferred data management and processing methods may be different, this group can serve as a resource to explore what works for others, share your own advice, and develop new strategies together.
Below are a few WILDLABS events dealing with datasets collected from various conservation tech tools:
Nicole Flores: How do I get started with Wildlife Insights?
Jamie Macaulay: How do I analyse large acoustic datasets using PAMGuard?
Sarah Davidson: Tools for Bio-logging Data in Conservation
Whatever conservation tech tools you work with, and whatever your preferred data management methods, we hope you'll find something helpful and effective in this group when you become a member!
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I am a graduate student at Purdue University developing low-cost IoT technology to measure wetland methane emissions. This, paired with my undergraduate education in Wildlife and Fisheries Resources, has me naturally drawn to advanced tech coupled with conservation issues.
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- @lvgliarose
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Bat Conservation Trust
Research Manager at Bat Conservation Trust
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- @sehuebner
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Wildlife Ecologist and Program Manager at the Smithsonian Institution
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- @jguenter
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Species360 CEO - passionate about using data to care for and conserve species
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- @Aurel
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Looking to reconcile biodiversity conservation and finance.

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- @diego_ellis_soto
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University of California & California Academy of Sciences
Biodiversity |Technology | Socio-Ecological Systems | Wildlife Ecology | Remote Sensing | Conservation | K12STEM-education | Music | diegoellissoto.org
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Mechanical Engineer background in test and measurement, IT maintenance consulting, database development, field installation, field maintenance and systems analysis
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- @kylejhorner
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NatureCounts Engagement Coordinator for Birds Canada.
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- @Alawa
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Passionate wildlife and biodiversity conservationist
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I am a a field biologist and a bat researcher interested in ecology, biodiversity, and conservation of mammals, especially Chiroptera.
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- @drelliott
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Microbial ecologist in Derbyshire UK
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- @mattaudette
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Software Tester and Test Automator at Wildlife Protection Solutions
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We review key characteristics of four AI platforms—Conservation AI, MegaDetector, MLWIC2: Machine Learning for Wildlife Image Classification and Wildlife Insights—and two auxiliary platforms—Camelot and Timelapse—that...
13 January 2023
WILDLABS and Fauna & Flora International are seeking an early career Vietnamese conservationist for 12-month paid internship position to grow and support the Southeast Asia regional community in our global...
11 January 2023
Seeking Software Engineer for Marine Science Lab a UC Santa Barbara
19 December 2022
Using satellite imagery to detect and classify the severity of cyanobacteria blooms in small, inland water bodies.
15 December 2022
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Conservify is seeking a hands-on Senior Software Engineer with front end and back end experience developing rich web and mobile applications, and a strong desire to build a best-in-class product that stands out in both...
9 December 2022
Conservation partnership launches new award to advance biodiversity conservation from space
5 December 2022
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This position (at California State University, Long Beach) provides data management & analysis support to Shark Lab research operations including shark tagging, active tracking, receiver data, AUV & UAV data...
24 October 2022
The candidate will partner with our global team members that are focused on designing and implementing island restorations using the most effective, science-based, cost-efficient, and collaborative methods available.
14 October 2022
Rainforest Alliance are seeking a Enterprise Data and Information Architect, based in UK, the Netherlands, or Kenya.
11 October 2022
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Rainforest Alliance are seeking a Data Engineer based in Kenya. Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
11 October 2022
Check out these openings to join Google's global Sustainability Programme. Location varies.
3 October 2022
A vast range of UK biodiversity and environmental data will be brought together in one place for the first time, thanks to a new partnership between the British Natural History Museum and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
3 October 2022
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Really interesting, I will take a look |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech | 9 months 2 weeks ago | |
Great Project !! |
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Data management and processing tools | 9 months 2 weeks ago | |
interesting!!! |
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AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Data management and processing tools | 9 months 3 weeks ago | |
Hadn't heard of CowLog, thanks Rob! |
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Data management and processing tools | 9 months 3 weeks ago | |
Thanks!I'm definitely looking at Smart and EarthRanger for overall management eventually, but for now I just want to track what we have better - especially as a base map to... |
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Geospatial, Data management and processing tools | 9 months 4 weeks ago | |
Retweet on OpenSoundscape - great package and documentation that allows you to build your own CNNs! Note that this is in Python though. There are tons of bioacoustics... |
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Acoustics, Data management and processing tools | 9 months 4 weeks ago | |
@cmwainaina please take a look |
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Animal Movement, AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Connectivity, Data management and processing tools, East Africa Community, Emerging Tech, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Marine Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools, Geospatial, Sensors, Software Development | 10 months ago | |
Hi @nyangetamagesa , i'm so grateful for our input. |
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Human-Wildlife Conflict, Data management and processing tools, East Africa Community, Women in Conservation Tech Programme (WiCT) | 10 months ago | |
This was not the most significant or important update for the Mothbox, but it’s one I think is quite fun! It’s also quite... |
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Data management and processing tools, Latin America Community | 10 months 3 weeks ago | |
The use of synthetic training data such as interpolated sequence values is common, but fraught with the issue of your synthetic signal generating features that are not true to... |
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Data management and processing tools, AI for Conservation | 10 months 3 weeks ago | |
Hi all! I am researching the spatio-temporal movements of reintroduced eagles, using the recurse package in R Software (... |
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Data management and processing tools | 11 months ago | |
Tagging @Chelsea_Smith so she sees this :) |
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Geospatial, Data management and processing tools, Protected Area Management Tools | 11 months ago |
New Papers: Methods in Ecology and Evolution
23 April 2021 12:00am
Competition: Hack the Planet 2021

23 April 2021 12:00am
Best global species database?
10 March 2021 10:30pm
28 March 2021 5:58pm
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing, @Nhanq !
6 April 2021 8:42pm
The GBIF backbone taxonomy is composed of Catalogue of Life, ITIS, the Red List and dozens of other checklists. It's just been updated again, but this blogpost from a 2019 update does a good job of explaining what it is: https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/gbif-backbone-taxonomy/
Another more recent post can help get one up to speed on using it via our species API: https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/gbif-species-api/
The 2021 #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge: Community Highlights
25 March 2021 12:00am
Funding Opportunity: COVID-19 Science Fund
10 March 2021 12:00am
Resource: WildID
8 March 2021 12:00am
New Paper: Drones and Bornean Orangutan Distribution
12 February 2021 12:00am
Tech Tutors: How do How do I launch machine learning projects using MLOps?
3 February 2021 12:08pm
5 February 2021 7:16pm
Dan's comments about the need for technologists and conservationists to manage and share (properly annotated) data struck a chord with me, it was right at the end of the presentation.
I fired off a point into the chat "could your old background data be my background data?" or something similar, and it got me thinking...
(Firstly, sorry for clouding this issue with my simultaneous "Ian Tuna" joke)
In the context of using AI as described in EdgeImpulse example, lets say - audio.
Lets say Group A are trying to detect the roar of lions, and Group B are trying to detect the grunt of wild pigs, and lets imagine that is in roughly the same area of Africa. I mean they could both send out teams to capture the sound of their target animal, and the sound of NOT their target animal, e.g everything else.
Well if "serengetti sounds" was a known audio track, then all you need is the unique sound of the beast in question, am I right?
Using AIS Data to Investigate the World’s Fishing Ports
2 February 2021 12:00am
Webinar: How can data empower communities in marine management?

26 January 2021 12:00am
Event: Role of GIS in Ocean Conservation

26 January 2021 12:00am
Opportunity: 2021 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks open-data innovations for biodiversity
20 January 2021 12:00am
Workshop: Analyses of acoustic telemetry data with R

15 January 2021 12:00am
Announcing the 2020 Geospatial Conservation Annual Report
17 December 2020 12:00am
FIS Call for Expressions of Interest (closed)
8 December 2020 12:00am
Making the Most of Tech Tutors Season 2!

30 November 2020 12:00am
Learning Resources: Exploring Species Interactions with Snapshot Serengeti
25 November 2020 12:00am
WILDLABS Tech Tutors: Season Two

24 November 2020 12:00am
How do I use open access remote sensing data to monitor fishing?

24 November 2020 12:00am
Introducing the Arctic Animal Movement Archive
17 November 2020 12:00am
Weekly Event: OTN Virtual Study Hall

16 November 2020 12:00am
International Certificate Program in Environmental Data Analytics

16 November 2020 12:00am
Using Computer Vision to Protect Endangered Species
10 November 2020 12:00am
Opportunity: Sustainable Development Goals Internship
13 October 2020 12:00am
Training Opportunity: HarvardX TinyML Course

30 September 2020 12:00am
Tech Tutors: Review Session

3 September 2020 12:00am
Challenge: ElephantEdge
11 August 2020 12:00am
Webinar: Building location-based narratives

11 August 2020 12:00am
Sustainable Fishing Challenges: Fishing Vessels of the Future
4 August 2020 12:00am
How do I use portable genomics in the field?
3 August 2020 12:00am
25 March 2021 8:35am
Both yes but mainly no, I liked the concept so much I "borrowed" it from "Endangered Safari" including the digitalized mammals.
Behind the scenes it is fairly simple: Just add relevant animals in a powerpoint, save as JPG, import it to
https://synoptic.design/
and name the area that looks like an animal after the animal- notice it must be the same name you have in the database and the same you will use in your reports,
Save it as a SVG- file and now you are ready to use it in tools like Power BI/ Tableau and custom lots of things like colour and it is interactive/ clickable.
Unfortunately the coverage maps in IUCN did not have good enough data quality for our national park,
So when you create a global database add a digital version of the specie and of course, always updated ranges.