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- Brokering finance deals to fund nature restoration with Rob Gardner
This is the title of an episode of Ben Goldsmith's 'Rewilding the World' podcast series. I have been wondering for a while, how is it done? Here is a crystal clear outline.
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- Automated Image analysis
This project aimed to reduce human-carnivore conflict by building a resilient boma for a vulnerable family in Hunyari village. It served as a model for other families, promoting stronger livestock protection. The initiative included community engagement on predator deterrence and sustainable building practices. The success of the pilot is inspiring others to adopt similar solutions.
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- Can RGB drone data & Machine Learning be of value in Conservation?
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- Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map launched!
Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective!
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- eDNA sampling kits
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- Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map launched!
Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective!
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- Behind the Buzz Season 1: From Data to Decisions
Come along to the first season of Behind the Buzz, where we’ll bring in experts to break down the basics of global conservation policy frameworks through the lens of animal movement and explore how our community can better translate movement data to decision-making.
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- Ground Truth: How Are You Verifying What Maps Show?
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- What Are Innovative Technologies, and Why Should Conservationists Care?
Conservationists use tools like drones, satellites, and camera traps to monitor ecosystems and scale their impact. But new challenges like transparency, funding gaps, and engagement remain. Web 3.0 technologies offer solutions, but adoption can be complex. Understanding their benefits and barriers is key.
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- Drone & ai use for uncovering illegal logging camps
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- INSTANT DETECT 2.0 - ALPHA TESTING
The worst thing a new conservation technology can do is become another maintenance burden on already stretched field teams. This meant Instant Detect 2.0 had to work perfectly from day 1. In this update, Sam Seccombe describes the extensive Alpha testing conducted at Whipsnade Zoo to validate the performance and find the limits of ZSL's Instant Detect 2.0 system.
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- Beyond the Tech Hype / Más Allá del Hype Tecnológico
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- New WILDLABS Funding & Finance group
WildLabs will soon launch a 'Funding and Finance' group. What would be your wish list for such a group? Would you be interested in co-managing or otherwise helping out?
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- Can RGB drone data & Machine Learning be of value in Conservation?
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- Can/Should UAVs Be The Answer To Urbanisation & Wildlife Conflicts
Over the years, a large number of developments have gone up in the area that I live in and the municipality is not doing what they should when it comes to upholding the laws that have been put in place to protect the wildlife in this protected paradise. Is anyone else around the world facing this in their communities? Can/should drones and open source software be the answer to better monitoring of construction companies that are in breach of wildlife regulations? I would like to get others thoughts on this subject as it can be complicated. GeoWing Academy has been using drones and opensource software to monitor some of the changes and damages to the environment to illustrate the issues to the local municipality and government. There is a PDF version of the article attached should the images in the article not be visible
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- Documentary on Conservation
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- Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map launched!
Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective!
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- Advice needed for accessible acoustic monitoring
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- HawkEars: a high-performance bird sound classifier for Canada
HawkEars is a deep learning model designed specifically to recognize the calls of 328 Canadian bird species and 13 amphibians.
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- Dual-/Multi-Use Technology Strategies
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- Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map launched!
Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective!
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- GPS collars for domestic dogs
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- Effectiveness of canine-assisted surveillance and human searches for early detection of invasive spotted lanternfly
A published research study
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- Overview of Image Analysis and Visualization from Camera traps
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- Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map launched!
Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective!
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- Overview of Image Analysis and Visualization from Camera traps
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- Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map launched!
Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective!
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- Planet Imagery is no longer available on GFW
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- AI accelerator for nonprofits working in the Climate area
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- Case Study: Drone-based radio-tracking of Eastern Bandicoots
Wildlife Drones was deployed by Zoos Victoria in a trial project tracking captive-bred Eastern Barred Bandicoots that were tagged and released into the wild
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- Overview of Image Analysis and Visualization from Camera traps
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- Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map launched!
Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective!
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- Advice for Junior Web Developer
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- Advancing Hierarchical Classification of Ocean Life
Join the FathomNet Kaggle Competition to show us how you would develop a model that can accurately classify varying taxonomic ranks!
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- New WILDLABS Funding & Finance group
WildLabs will soon launch a 'Funding and Finance' group. What would be your wish list for such a group? Would you be interested in co-managing or otherwise helping out?
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- DIY: Pressure Chamber
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- Can CBIs promote coexistence? A Case Study from Northern Tanzania
Can conservation-based incentives promote the willingness of local communities to coexist with wildlife? A case of Burunge Wildlife Management Area, Northern Tanzania
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- PhD Advice
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- HawkEars: a high-performance bird sound classifier for Canada
HawkEars is a deep learning model designed specifically to recognize the calls of 328 Canadian bird species and 13 amphibians.
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- From Field to Funder: How to communicate impact?
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- Application of computer vision for off-highway vehicle route detection: A case study in Mojave desert tortoise habitat
Driving off-highway vehicles (OHVs), which contributes to habitat degradation and fragmentation, is a common recreational activity in the United States and other parts of the world, particularly in desert environments with fragile ecosystems. Although habitat degradation and mortality from the expansion of OHV networks are thought to have major impacts on desert species, comprehensive maps of OHV route networks and their changes are poorly understood. To better understand how OHV route networks have evolved in the Mojave Desert ecoregion, we developed a computer vision approach to estimate OHV route location and density across the range of the Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii). We defined OHV routes as non-paved, linear features, including designated routes and washes in the presence of non-paved routes. Using contemporary (n = 1499) and historical (n = 1148) aerial images, we trained and validated three convolutional neural network (CNN) models. We cross-examined each model on sets of independently curated data and selected the highest performing model to generate predictions across the tortoise's range. When evaluated against a ‘hybrid’ test set (n = 1807 images), the final hybrid model achieved an accuracy of 77%. We then applied our model to remotely sensed imagery from across the tortoise's range and generated spatial layers of OHV route density for the 1970s, 1980s, 2010s, and 2020s. We examined OHV route density within tortoise conservation areas (TCA) and recovery units (RU) within the range of the species. Results showed an increase in the OHV route density in both TCAs (8.45%) and RUs (7.85%) from 1980 to 2020. Ordinal logistic regression indicated a strong correlation (OR = 1.01, P < 0.001) between model outputs and ground-truthed OHV maps from the study region. Our computer vision approach and mapped results can inform conservation strategies and management aimed at mitigating the adverse impacts of OHV activity on sensitive ecosystems.
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- Is a physical meet possible this 2025?
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- MyProgress: Advancing GIS and R programming skills.
A fascinating journey of unleashing my potentials in spatial analysis using ArcGIS Pro and R programming.
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- Field-Ready Bioacoustics System in Field Testing
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- Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map launched!
Conservation International is proud to announce the launch of the Nature Tech for Biodiversity Sector Map, developed in partnership with the Nature Tech Collective!
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- Documentary on Conservation
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- HawkEars: a high-performance bird sound classifier for Canada
HawkEars is a deep learning model designed specifically to recognize the calls of 328 Canadian bird species and 13 amphibians.
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- Autonomizing Small Mammal Traps
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- Judging Panel Award Winners: 2024 #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge
Join us in celebrating this year’s Judging Panele Award winners!
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- Feedback on PCB for Mothbox
Applications are open until April 15th
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- MyProgress: Advancing GIS and R programming skills.
A fascinating journey of unleashing my potentials in spatial analysis using ArcGIS Pro and R programming.
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- From Field to Funder: How to communicate impact?
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- Brokering finance deals to fund nature restoration with Rob Gardner
This is the title of an episode of Ben Goldsmith's 'Rewilding the World' podcast series. I have been wondering for a while, how is it done? Here is a crystal clear outline.
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We are thrilled to start a brand new group, the Latin America Community, and introduce the new Group Leaders for the 2024-2025 term: Vanesa Reyes and Juan Sebastián Ulloa Chacón. // Estamos muy contentos de iniciar un nuevo grupo, la Comunidad Latinoamericana, y presentar a los nuevos Líderes de Grupo para el período 2024-2025: Vanesa Reyes y Juan Sebastián Ulloa Chacón. // Estamos muito felizes em iniciar um novo grupo, a Comunidade Latino-Americana, e apresentar os novos Líderes de Grupo para o período 2024-2025: Vanesa Reyes e Juan Sebastián Ulloa Chacón.
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Hi wildlabbers, Ooof, this is going to be a difficult one to write. It's a message I have left to truly the last possible moment because it will be so hard to find the right...
7 February 2025
Our Award Project Manager, Adrien Pajot, read all 194 applications received in the 2024 WILDLABS Awards. As we open up the application process for 2025, he offers his advice for the five things you should keep in mind...
22 November 2024
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The story of the Boring Fund and why we're so excited to have it out in the world 🚀
26 September 2024
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Hi folks!@Chelsea_Smith from Fauna & Flora joined last month's variety hour to share more about Fauna & Flora's work with geospatial data. I invited her along as I thought...
17 April 2024
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Hi everyone, @craig joined last month's Variety Hour to chat about Tagranger, which you can read more about here. A TagRanger® system has three elements:A Tag...
17 April 2024
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Hi everyone!@LashaO and @holmbergius from the Wild Me team at ConservationX Labs gave a superb talk at last month's Variety Hour, sharing their recent breakthroughs with...
17 April 2024
NASA and IBM have teamed up to create an AI Foundation Model for Earth Observations, using large-scale satellite and remote sensing data, including the Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) data.
28 March 2024
Hi everyone, I'm looking into proven systems for managing human-wildlife conflict, particularly focused on early warning systems. I'm keen to hear of any examples from your...
25 March 2024
WWF is looking for consultant(s) with expertise in spatial data mapping and analysis.
19 March 2024
Join our multi-national team at the AI for Biodiversity Change Global Climate Center! We're hiring a Research Data Manager & Tech Coordinator at Ohio State. Support cutting-edge research on climate change &...
15 March 2024
WILDLABS was honoured to represent the global conservation technology sector on the world stage, joining the World Wildlife Day celebrations at the UN. As an invited speaker, Stephanie O'Donnell used her talk to share...
7 March 2024
Do you work for a climate organization looking to multiply impact with AI? Apply for the Salesforce Accelerator - AI for Climate! This new philanthropic initiative is dedicated to supporting innovative solutions for...
16 January 2024
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