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Margaux Armfield

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Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)

Software Engineer in Conservation Tech

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Matt Morrissette

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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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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)

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Firmware/Electronics Engineer with 10+ years of experience building telemetry devices for wildlife conservation. I'm an avid birdwatcher and enjoy wildlife photography. CTO and Senior Engineer at Cellular Tracking Technologies.

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Program manager and recordist at The Acoustic Atlas

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Luc Hoffman Institute

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On the way to Bridge technology and Nature.

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Wildlife Ecologist

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Student at Aberystwyth University. Bug Fanatic🪲. Worked at Octophin Digital for my industrial year placement 🐙.

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Master's by Research student at the University of Exeter working on AI for underwater camera surveys

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I am a conservation enthusiast who aims at learning more about conservation and its technology. My research interests lie in wildlife conservation in anthropogenic landscapes.

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Advancing the international partner engagement work of ABALOBI, a tech platform aimed at integrating small-scale fishers into information and resource networks.

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Wildlife monitoring using Smart-Cities tech	Both initiatives are very interesting. I love the one about the elephants that @nilaksha comments. There are currently several projects that are using artificial...		Software Development	7 years ago
Wildlife Crime App Development	Hi Rosemary, Do you know this website that gathers grants and resources for sustainability? https://www2.fundsforngos.org/category/environment-conservation-climate-...	+20	Software Development	7 years ago
2-Way SMS solution for communication between Park management and Communities	Hi Damian, You could use a SMS gateway, which acts as a link between two mobile devices in order to send SMSes. As Drue stated out Whatsapp or other...		Software Development	7 years 1 month ago
What's your favorite wildlife/nature game?	Thanks Richard. Welcome to the (silent) community. We actually already wrote the article, but thanks for the reminder that I should post a link!!! https://...		Software Development	7 years 1 month ago
Photopoint Monitoring Solutions?	Hi everyone, I decided at the end of last year, that it wasn't good enough that there's no good Photo Monitoring Apps on the market, and started to design my own....		Software Development	7 years 3 months ago
SMART 2017 Annual Report	Hello Wildlabs Community, Just wanted to make you aware of the release of the 2017 Annual Report from the SMART (Spatial Monitoring And...		Software Development	7 years 3 months ago
New Mobile App for Reporting Illegal Ivory	I did some research and here is what I found. Basically, federal laws prohibit the intrastate sale of ivory if it was imported after 1990 (CITES) and the interstate sale of ivory...		Software Development	7 years 5 months ago
Call for papers/participation: Workshop on lessons learned from volunteers’ interactions with geographic citizen science applications, 27 April 2018, London	Hi all, The UCL Extreme Citizen Science group is organising a workshop on lessons learned from volunteers’ interactions with...		Software Development	7 years 6 months ago
Species names API feedback	Hello everyone, i would like to gather some feedback from biologist and environmental specialists for a species names API i've been...		Software Development	7 years 6 months ago
Finding Souvenir Data	Hi Rosemary, Great idea! Just thinking outloud here, but is it wise to tell people where to find unsafe souvenirs? Wouldn't this be helping people who want to find...		Software Development	7 years 9 months ago
Has anyone tried out the Forest Watcher Mobile App?	Hi Liz - Steph encouraged me to have a play for our project in South Sudan. I was surprised the reference area allowed when setting up the app was fairly small but presume this is...		Software Development	7 years 9 months ago
What tech challenges do you have?	Certainly, John; camera trapping is one of our main tools, especially for work on chemical communication. Peter		Software Development	7 years 10 months ago

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