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!
- @cleo
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Southern African Wildlife College
I am ecologist working in African conservation areas who loves wildlife & wild landscapes. I increasingly recognize that conservation is about people, especially those living in & around protected areas. Finding ways to benefit marginalized people is my passion.
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Technologist, birder, photographer and mountain guide.
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- @vandita_shukla
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PhD candidate studying drone flight planning for enabling tracking and identification of individual characteristics of wildlife; member of the WildDrone, an MSCA Doctoral Network funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe research
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- @beter22
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A Nigerian business journalist
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- @TheDataEnthusiastic
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Hi, I'm pursuing Master's in Data Science. And I want work help protect nature and wildlife.
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- @Ariel
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Ariel is passionate about centering both our environment and social justice and using data to support nature-based solutions to the poly-crisis, and they are particularly interested in mycelium, soil health, forestry, agriculture, ecosystems, conservation, and restoration.
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Environmentalist and Python developer working in the realm of Remote Sensing. Fascinated by the intersection of technology and nature, with a focus on machine learning, ecological modeling, and biodiversity monitoring. 🌍
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- @foxy50213
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- @bumbleben
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Junior dev in a bioacoustics startup, interested in all forms of remote sensing and biologging
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- @leonardoscarpa
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I'm Leonardo, I'm a biologist, and I'm passionate about movement ecology. Another of my hobbies is GIS. I have a master's degree in this topic, which I complement with the use of technology such as drones, camera traps and acoustic receivers
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Working in relation to ecosystem services
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- @valeria
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Studio Pixel
AI integration architect, AI product manager. I've built the front-end of this website 😁
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Article
Wildlife Insights Launches
Zoological Society London (ZSL)
Wildlife Insights is excited to announce the public release of their new platform! Read on to learn about all the useful features you'll find on Wildlife Insights, and check out WILDLABS' Tech Tutors episode with...
27 July 2021
Article
Tech4Wildlife Leaders: Resolving Human-Giraffe Conflict
Owino Otieno Raymond
Read our interview with early career conservationist and CLP Future Conservationist Award recipient Owino Raymond, who is working with camera traps along the Kenya-Somalia border to understand and reduce conflict...
21 May 2021
Article
New Papers: Methods in Ecology and Evolution
British Ecological Society
A new issue of Methods in Ecology and Evolution from the British Ecological Society is now available for download. In this issue, WILDLABS readers will enjoy research involving conservation dogs and non-invasive...
23 April 2021
Community Announcement
Whether you spent the last year working in the field, lab, at home, or virtually, the WILDLABS community's conservation tech achievements were on full display in our annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge! Relive our...
25 March 2021
Funding
Funding Opportunity: COVID-19 Science Fund
National Geographic
National Geographic is offering funding up to up to $50,000 for conservationists conducting research on how the pandemic has impacted wildlife and conservation work. If you are interested in researching aspects of the...
10 March 2021
Article
Resource: WildID
Alchemy Software
WildID is excited to share their new camera trap processing and detection tools with WILDLABS! Using machine learning to identify Southern African wildlife species in large quantities of camera trap data, WildID's tool...
8 March 2021
Article
Sol Milne's new paper, Drivers of Bornean Orangutan Distribution across a Multiple-Use Tropical Landscape, is now available. Using drones to detect orangutan nest density in aerial surveys (as shared during our...
12 February 2021
Article
Using AIS Data to Investigate the World’s Fishing Ports
Max Schofield
How can remotely monitoring fishing vessels allow us to prevent illegal and unsustainable fishing practices? Check out this blog post from Max Schofield, originally shared on OceanMind, to learn about how AIS (Automated...
2 February 2021
Article
The 2021 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge has opened with the aim of recognizing innovative entries that leverage biodiversity data and tools from the GBIF network to advance open science.
20 January 2021
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Announcing the 2020 Geospatial Conservation Annual Report
The Nature Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy's 2020 Geospatial Conservation Annual Report is now available to download! Featuring 25 case studies focused on the impact of geospatial science on conservation work, maps showcasing conservation...
17 December 2020
Article
FIS Call for Expressions of Interest (closed)
WILDLABS Team
WILDLABS community members are invited to submit an Expression of Interest to Fisheries Innovation Scotland (FIS) to participate in two research projects involving conservation tech's role in the future of sustainable...
8 December 2020
Article
WILDLABS member Meredith Palmer shared this great course module based around Snapshot Serengeti camera trap data, and developed for university biology courses. This material is ideal for introductory level biology...
25 November 2020
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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 |
