Overview
Databases or data sources containing valuable information collected, analysed, and shared through various digital tools and sensors. This data often includes biodiversity records, environmental measurements, and tracking information for endangered species.
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Products
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KABR: In-Situ Dataset for Kenyan Animal Behavior Recognition from Drone Videos
This novel in-situ dataset of animal behavior recognition from drone videos, collected at the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya, provides over 10 hours of annotated footage of giraffes, plains zebras, and Grevy’s zebras, offering a resource for advancing ML for behavior recognition.
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MMLA: Multi-Environment, Multi-Species, Low-Altitude Drone Dataset
MMLA is a multi-environment, multi-species drone dataset designed to improve wildlife detection in ecological monitoring by providing diverse, high-resolution video annotations for six species across three sites, enhancing model performance for autonomous drone systems.
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Snappy Mapper
Snappy Mapper makes it easy for non-experts to collect high-quality geospatial data for conservation, land use, and habitat monitoring
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nestling-growth-app
The App is an open-source, web-based tool that helps researchers model and visualise bird nestling growth using classic biological functions. It supports multilingual interfaces, model comparison, and high-quality output for field-collected data on weight and wing-tarsus.
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Kelp Watch
Our researchers have demonstrated that by analyzing satellite imagery of coastal waters with machine learning algorithms, it’s possible to estimate the presence and size of kelp forests, and observe how they change over time.
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WILDLABS content
Article
HawkEars: a high-performance bird sound classifier for Canada
Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
HawkEars is a deep learning model designed specifically to recognize the calls of 328 Canadian bird species and 13 amphibians.
Discussion
Project Update — Nestling Growth App
Jorge Lizarazo
Although the core of the BoutScout project focuses on developing multi-sensor dataloggers for automated nest monitoring, a significant complementary outcome...
Funding Opportunity
BirdCLEF+ 2025
Alex Rood
Species identification from audio, focused on birds, amphibians, mammals and insects from the Middle Magdalena Valley of Colombia.
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Reviews
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Complete / Comprehensive / Easy to use / Free to use /Full Review
This is my go-to app for identifying any living thing, but I love using it mainly because the observations I make can help real science! I have had a few researchers specifically use data I have contributed...
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Complete / Comprehensive / Free to use /Full Review
GFW is an an incredible data analysis and visualization tool with tons of different geospatial layers integrated into it (e.g., those from U Maryland's GLAD lab, WRI's Land & Carbon Lab, etc.). I also...
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Free to use / Good value for money / Incomplete / Not comprehensive /Full Review
Great product for visualizing forest loss that's update and, when you sign up, email alerts. It's not entirely easy or clear how to download data once you create an area of interest or that could be behind...
R&D
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This R&D project serves as a testbed for distributed edge AI systems in conservation, using multimodal sensors and autonomous monitoring to enhance wildlife tracking, behavior analysis, and ecological research.
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NBM project is about automating the tracking of birds migrating at night in Europe through the creation of a high quality dataset and the development of machine learning model.
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We are developing and employing multisensor trackers to monitor the movements and behaviors of crocodiles in the wild & generating an acceleration ethogram based on motion data of alligators to develop techniques for the onboard processing of behavior and activity summaries.
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The Canid Howl Project are a research group dedicated to understanding more about the vocalisations of the Canidae family, specifically wolves, coyotes and dogs.
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R&D
MekongWater.org enhances water-related data management in the Mekong region, providing a centralized platform with over 50 tools for analysis and decision-making.
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R&D
OpenCollar is a conservation collaboration to design, support and deploy open-source tracking collar hardware and software for environmental and wildlife monitoring projects.
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Organisations
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World Wildlife Fund
WWF is one of the world’s leading conservation organizations, working in nearly 100 countries for over half a century to help people and nature thrive.
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Land & Carbon Lab
LCL harnesses the latest AI and satellite imagery to create data that provides unprecedented transparency about the world’s land and nature-based carbon.
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Birds Canada
Birds Canada is a charitable organization dedicated to conservation of birds and biodiversity. Our Data Science and Technology branch operates two major conservation technology projects: The Motus Wildlife Tracking System and NatureCounts.
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Species360
Software: Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS); Hortis – plant record keeping, Conservation Toolkit Initiative (SCTI).
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