Group curators
Margaux Armfield
Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)
Matt Morrissette
Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)
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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Group curators
Wildlife Protection Solutions (WPS)
Software Engineer in Conservation Tech
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- 15 Discussions
- 10 Groups
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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- 5 Groups
No showcases have been added to this group yet.
- @trish_lai
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UCD SVM Student
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- @dmwilliams
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Behavioral ecologist and community science coordinator
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- @emcandler
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Senior Wildlife Research Scientist
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Scaling biodiversity monitoring, using smart sensors and ai-pipelines
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- 10 Groups
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior
Project leader of MoveApps | Movement ecology
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- 5 Discussions
- 5 Groups
- @alekseisaunders
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Wildlife conservationist, ichthyologist, now pursuing a career in Software Engineering and Web Development
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- @Robincrocs
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Wildlife biologist, works with Caimans and Crocodiles
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- @StephODonnell
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- 196 Resources
- 676 Discussions
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2023 Bachelor Degree Graduate from the College of African Wildlife Management, Mweka.
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Hello, I am a PhD student studying birds and box turtles!
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I am a conservation technology advisor with New Zealand's Department of Conservation. I have experience in developing remote monitoring tech, sensors, remote comms and data management.
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Article
Sustainable Fishing Challenges: Fishing Vessels of the Future
Daniel Steadman
As we launch our new Sustainable Fishing Challenges group in the WILDLABS community, we are excited to welcome Daniel Steadman, the group manager, to give us an overview of three major areas in which #tech4wildlife...
4 August 2020
Article
This exciting news article about The Global Wetland Project's FishID platform discusses the latest improvements and developments in using deep learning to identify individual fish species underwater. In addition to...
28 July 2020
Article
BearID To Go
BearID Project
In this article from BearID Project, Director and Software Developer Ed Miller walks us through using their application to identify individual bears from photographs. Ed shows us how to easily use BearID remotely in the...
21 July 2020
Funding
Competition: Cornell Birdcall Identification
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Put your acoustic monitoring skills to the test in The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Birdsong Identification Kaggle Competition. Participants will compete to identify as many bird vocalizations as possible in in...
8 July 2020
Article
SMART is excited to showcase the features of their new data collection solution, SMART Mobile! Built around the specific needs of the SMART user community, this streamlined mobile tool allows staff in protected areas to...
23 June 2020
Article
The Perfect Paw Print: Collecting Data with FIT
Ellie Warren
A couple months ago, we introduced you to the Footprint Identification Technique (FIT), a non-invasive way to build an identification algorithm from both wild and captive animals by photographing footprints. Today, we'...
3 June 2020
Funding
Competition: 2020 Hackaday Prize
Conservation X Labs
The 2020 Hackaday Prize competition has begun! This year, Conservation X Labs has partnered with the Hackaday Prizes as one of four nonprofits seeking tech-based solutions to urgent challenges. Conservation X Labs'...
26 May 2020
Article
Grassroots Innovations for Wildlife Conservation
Aditya Gangadharan
In the fourth installment of his case study series focusing on preventing human-wildlife conflict, Aditya Gangadharan discusses how local communities develop, test, and implement their own solutions. This article...
19 May 2020
Article
Creating the Wildeverse
WILDLABS Team
The new mobile game Wildeverse from Internet of Elephants lets players digitally teleport primates into their homes through a unique and engaging blend of technology and storytelling. Wildeverse creator and National...
13 May 2020
Article
Get To Know FIT
WILDLABS Team
We're excited to welcome the WildTrack FIT group to our community! Today, we'd like to introduce you to the Footprint Identification Technique (FIT) and share how you can incorporate this tracking method into your field...
6 May 2020
Article
Era of the Condor: A Species' Future in Recovery
Ellie Warren
In this three-part WILDLABS feature article, we'll take a look at the various technologies used to fight the greatest threat to endangered condors, explore the innovations that may change the way we study and understand...
5 May 2020
Funding
Competition: iWildCam 2020
WILDLABS Team
Want to compete in the iWildCam 2020 competition identifying species in camera trap images to support biodiversity monitoring efforts and automatic species classification model improvements? Because the Workshop on Fine...
4 May 2020
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| Both initiatives are very interesting. I love the one about the elephants that @nilaksha comments. There are currently several projects that are using artificial... |
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| Hi Rosemary, Do you know this website that gathers grants and resources for sustainability? https://www2.fundsforngos.org/category/environment-conservation-climate-... |
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| 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... |
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| 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://... |
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| 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.... |
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| Hello Wildlabs Community, Just wanted to make you aware of the release of the 2017 Annual Report from the SMART (Spatial Monitoring And... |
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| 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... |
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Software Development | 7 years 5 months ago | |
| Hi all, The UCL Extreme Citizen Science group is organising a workshop on lessons learned from volunteers’ interactions with... |
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| Hello everyone, i would like to gather some feedback from biologist and environmental specialists for a species names API i've been... |
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Software Development | 7 years 6 months ago | |
| 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... |
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Software Development | 7 years 9 months ago | |
| 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... |
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| Certainly, John; camera trapping is one of our main tools, especially for work on chemical communication. Peter |
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CIEEM 2023 Autumn Conference: Modernising Ecology: Techniques and Approaches
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Intro to Systematic Conservation Planning with Marxan
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How to report on biodiversity impacts at scale for TNFD
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MoveApps: A Digital Home for Tracking Data Analysis
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How are the Arts intersecting with Conservation Technology in a rapidly changing world?
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New Add-ons for Mbaza AI
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Catalog of open source conservation projects
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There is the Conservation Tech Directory! There's an 'open-source' tag you can search by too.
The role of low-code Earth observation tools in accelerating the sustainability transition
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Information Session: Technology Testing to Mitigate Human-Elephant Conflict in West Bengal
19 June 2023 11:07pm
Innovation wanted: Technology Testing to Mitigate Human-Elephant Conflict in West Bengal
19 June 2023 10:54pm
The Wildlife Society Conference
19 June 2023 5:59am
CyberTracker: Streamlining Data Capture
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Job Opening: Full Stack Developer at Marine Monitor (M2)
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Apply for the Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change Middle East & Africa Program
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Data Visualization in Service of Coral Reefs in Micronesia
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Happywhale: AI-Powered Whale Identification
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Looking to contribute
13 May 2023 6:53am
Forest Watcher: Making Forest Monitoring Easier and More Effective
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Introducing the 2023 Conservation Tech Showcase
11 May 2023 5:06pm
Crowdsourcing individual ID for pop dyn?
1 May 2023 5:36pm
5 May 2023 6:15pm
That sounds like a really neat project! Do fish get re-caught often enough that individual ID is useful? Is sample bias (more data from popular spots) an issue?
Machine Learning Researcher - Computer Vision (Remote)
2 May 2023 8:49pm
11 August 2023 12:15am
Hi Tobias!
This sounds great and I am looking forward to trying it out after returning from field work!
Very cool with the Vectronic Activity data! I am looking forward to check How we can use that!
Cheers,
Lars