Software plays an increasingly vital role in conservation, helping to protect and manage biodiversity through innovative technological solutions. It also facilitates collaboration among researchers, local communities, and governments, empowering them to develop sustainable conservation strategies. However, many of us working in conservation tech don't have the benefit of a large team of software experts to collaborate with or bounce ideas off of. We aim to change that.
This group is for anyone interested in applying software to conservation and wildlife research. Whether you're a developer eager to contribute to conservation or a newbie with valuable data and ideas but limited software experience, this group connects people with diverse expertise. It provides a space for asking questions, sharing resources, and staying informed about new technologies and best practices. We are also committed to supporting technologists and conservationists from the Global South, ensuring that everyone has access to the tools, knowledge, and opportunities to contribute meaningfully.
Our goal is to foster collaboration and avoid "reinventing the wheel" by sharing solutions, whether it's an application, design approach, or a simple script. We also aim to lower barriers to entry by offering mentorship and guidance and providing feedback on technical ideas. This supportive community is a place to learn, connect, and contribute to the advancement of conservation through software. Whether you're looking for software and mobile app developers to help you with your conservation tech needs, have questions about development, are looking for resources, or would like to share your own app, software, or gaming tools, this is the group for you!
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Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)
Software Engineer in Conservation Tech



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Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)
Director of Technology at Wildlife Protection Solutions. Primarily focuses on leveraging machine learning and advanced data analytics to combat poaching, monitor biodiversity, and predict environmental threats.
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Co-founder @ Behold
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African Parks
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Sea Mammal Research Unit Univ' St Andrews
I work in marine bioacoustics with a focus on the conservation of marine mammals. Most of the time I'm developing and using passive acoustic technology to study the underwater behaviour of dolphins and porpoises. I'm also a keen developer on the PAMGuard project.



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World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

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Director of Icoteq Ltd, an electronics and software design consultancy developing wireless products and solutions to organisations working in the conservation, wildlife monitoring and anti-poaching sectors. Developers of the TagRanger® novel wildlife tracking products.



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Ranger Campus
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- @Harsha
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I am a marine biologist / acoustic ecologist from Australia. Fascinated by bioacoustics, I always look forward to learning from people in conservation!
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World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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- @nabilla.nuril
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University College London (UCL)
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Develop state-of-the-art interactive ML-based tools for biodiverstiy conservation and related applications
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May be of interest to WILDLABS in terms of open source solutions, conservation tech, and learning about similar efforts. The founder of Open Sustainable Technology wrote this post about their work: https://...
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Hi everyone,What should we share or demo about Software Quality Assurance? Alex Saunders and I, the two Software QA people at Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS) are going to... |
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Software Development, AI for Conservation, Open Source Solutions | 3 days 16 hours ago | |
Lively and informative discussion, I would very much like to contribute if there is some active development work with regards to this. I have recent experience with using... |
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Data management and processing tools, Camera Traps, Software Development | 5 days 11 hours ago | |
We are please to inform that we have implemented the point 1 and 4 and with this have finalized the project. The latest improvements:Improvement in findability of help... |
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Animal Movement, Data management and processing tools, Software Development | 6 days 10 hours ago | |
My name is Frank Short and I am a PhD Candidate at Boston University in Biological Anthropology. I am currently doing fieldwork in Indonesia using machine-learning powered passive... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Animal Movement, Data management and processing tools, Early Career, Emerging Tech, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Protected Area Management Tools, Software Development | 2 weeks ago | |
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation. Nice to hear your passion showing through. |
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AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions, Software Development | 3 weeks 3 days ago | |
📸 Do you use camera traps in your work? Take part in our survey!Hi everyone! I’m currently a final-year engineering... |
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Camera Traps, AI for Conservation, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions, Software Development | 3 weeks 3 days ago | |
Ritika, All the best! I hope someone provides a more substantive answer! I have also graduated with masters in AI and ML recently. Difference being I am at the end of my... |
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AI for Conservation, Software Development | 1 month ago | |
New stable release : v1.5.1We are pleased to announce the latest release with several important enhancement, fixes and documentation improvements to ensure compatibility with the... |
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Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Open Source Solutions, Software Development | 1 month 1 week ago | |
Hi Ryan, hmm, I had no idea there was a microphone named that. I thought about how it’s used to lure birds for netting, and I like Greek Mythology. I thought it was a perfect fit... |
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Acoustics, Emerging Tech, Funding and Finance, Protected Area Management Tools, Software Development | 1 month 2 weeks ago | |
Thank you, so very much Adrien!!! believe me your info will cut my field sampling in more than a half, I really appreciated it! |
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Software Development | 1 month 3 weeks ago | |
Yep we are working on it 1/ segment 2/remote unwanted ecosytem3/get local potential habitat4/generate5/add to picture |
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Geospatial, AI for Conservation, Data management and processing tools, Open Source Solutions, Software Development | 1 month 3 weeks ago | |
All sound, would be nice if there were only 5, though! |
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AI for Conservation, Citizen Science, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Funding and Finance, Geospatial, Open Source Solutions, Software Development | 1 month 4 weeks ago |
Naturewatch: Lessons from the field of app development
21 June 2017 12:00am
2017 Write Speak Code Conference for Women in Tech
6 June 2017 8:50pm
From the Field: Eric Becker and designing sensors for wildlife
22 May 2017 12:00am
Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge: Mars Omega LLP Boosts Wildlife Crime Intelligence
11 May 2017 12:00am
Getting SMART in Cambodia
8 May 2017 12:00am
From the Field: Dr Raman Sukumar and Technology Developments Needed to Conserve Elephants
5 April 2017 12:00am
Modeling techniques
29 March 2017 1:20pm
29 March 2017 2:42pm
Hi Priyanka,
I'll second what John's posted - it would be helpful to know a little more about what you're looking to do before we can answer your query. What is you project? What sort of data do you have? What are you looking to model?
Steph
29 March 2017 3:11pm
Hi Steph,
Actully, it's my presentation topic in class, Now I don't have a data but have to deliever an information in general. So can I produce depctive data to show how to represent any model.
Priyanka
#Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge: Our favourites from 2016
1 March 2017 12:00am
Big Ocean Button Challenge
16 February 2017 3:42pm
Survey123 and Collector
31 October 2016 3:24pm
19 December 2016 1:24am
I am finding ArcGIS Collector very usefull. I can say, as an dedicated R coder, some things are worth paying money for and Collector is one of the. I have used it to implement several monitoring and data collection projects. I particularly like the assurance that data will not be lost on the device and the ability to cache base maps.
2 February 2017 6:42pm
Dear BPdorsey, Collector will support custom basemaps ? It wasn't an option a few months ago.
3 February 2017 1:59pm
Thanks for the comments so far everyone
We have used custom basemaps in Collector. You need to publish a tile layer to ArcGIS Online,( I'm not sure if an organisational account is needed for this.)add it to your map and then you can download that tile layer to your device
https://doc.arcgis.com/en/arcgis-online/share-maps/publish-tiles.htm
Have you used Wildbook?
6 January 2017 4:31pm
Conservation Leadership Programme 2017 Award
21 November 2016 12:00am
Accelerators For Wildlife Conservation Apps?
31 October 2016 5:35pm
15 November 2016 7:54pm
Hi Judit,
She sounds like a great resource. I will be sure to reach out.
Thank you,
Megan
16 November 2016 3:26pm
Hi Megan,
It sounds very interesting the app you are developing. I am working for a smaller nature conservation Fund and am trying a partnership with a platform that is also in development and aimed at connecting people and organizations, facilitate update and knowledge sharing and increasing the visibility and donor pool of the organisations. As I said it's still in development but you can take a look if you like www.pifworld.com/eng. I am however also very curious to get to know other (potential) tools that work similar.
It would be great to chat one time to get better acquainted, maybe you can send me your contact details by PM if you'd like to follow up?
Best, Anne Alexandre
17 November 2016 5:08am
Hi Anne,
Thanks for reaching out and sharing what you are working on. I will PM you now.
September Meetup: Gaming for Conservation Impact, Thursday 29th Sept
27 September 2016 10:43am
10 October 2016 9:28am
Thanks Alasdair for signing up! Happy to welcome you as one of our test users. The link will follow in a bit, meanwhile feel free to join our Facebook Play Group to get weekly updates on our process and backstories of the amazing animals we're allowed to work with: https://www.facebook.com/groups/IoEPlay/
Corinna
16 November 2016 2:22pm
Im sorry I missed this event - I hope there will be others like it...
16 November 2016 2:32pm
Hi Karina,
There most definitely will be more events like this one. We are thinking of holding another gaming for conservation meetup in early 2017, potentially in London. Would that be of interest?
Hmm. having looked up where Wentworth institute of Technology is - looks like you're actually based in the USA Cambridge. Do you ever make it over to the UK? Otherwise, maybe we could look into organising something more local to you..
Steph
Carnivore Tracker app to document carnivores in Namibia
1 November 2016 2:59am
15 November 2016 7:09pm
Thanks Karin! Very interesting app. I will ask for permission to review it in my website.
Best
Judit
Kid-friendly wildlife apps
4 November 2016 4:16pm
9 November 2016 11:54am
Hi Katzyna, we have an app called Instant Wild where you can see camera trap images coming in and help identify what is in them - you can take a look/find out more at http://www.edgeofexistence.org/instantwild
Chloe
15 November 2016 4:47pm
Hi Katzyna,
Not an app, but United for Wildlife are releasing a new free online course on the illegal wildlife trade on the 17th that has Vietnamese subtitles and transcripts available. The website with the course is here: http://learn.unitedforwildlife.org/ but the new course won't be live until the 17th. I am happy to send you some further information on this if you would like?
Just let me know!
15 November 2016 6:32pm
Hi katzyna,
Of those I know, there are none that meets the two criteria that interest you. For example, Wildscan allows you to report illegal wildlife trafficking in Asia, but I don't consider it as kid friendly. Maybe WildSense, to save tigers, or even the app of WWF are more suitable. Also you can take a look to Virry, from UK, or QuestaGame, from Australia.
Best,
Judit
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14 November 2016 12:00am
Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act grants via USFWS
8 November 2016 12:00am
How do Wildlife Crime Experts view Remote Sensing Technologies used to Combat Illegal Wildlife Crime?
7 November 2016 12:00am
Zoohackathon: 'END LOOP - Coding to end wildlife trafficking'
22 September 2016 12:00am
Engaging this community
23 August 2016 8:27am
Request for Expression of Interest for Individual Consultants to Conduct Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis
4 August 2016 12:00am
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20 July 2016 12:00am
Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge Accelerator Bootcamp
24 June 2016 12:00am
Sustainable Palm Oil Transparency Toolkit (SPOTT)
8 June 2016 12:00am
Internet of Elephants game play survey
16 May 2016 7:44am
TEAM Network and Wildlife Insights
28 April 2016 12:00am
Can UAVs be Used to Measure Forest Quality?
27 April 2016 12:00am
ContentMine: Mining Helpful Facts for Conservation
5 April 2016 12:00am
Games for change Climate Challenge: A $10,000 game design competition
17 March 2016 2:03pm
4 April 2016 9:33am
Hah! I just logged in to post this. I talked with the G4C people the other day. Thanks fo beating me to it.
29 March 2017 1:38pm
Hi Priyanka,
From your post, I believe you mean applications for modeling data, right? There are many depending on the area or environmental topic you are working on, such as QGIS, Movebank, Google Fusion Tables, iPlover, etc. What does everyone else in the community have to say about this?
@sivakumar @Hangiw @dave @wai.yee @StephODonnell - What are your thoughts?