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Stephanie O'Donnell added a new Event - "Navigating AI and good governance for INGOs" to AI for Conservation
Stephanie O'Donnell added a new Event - "Catch up with The Variety Hour: April 2024" to Acoustics
Stephanie O'Donnell added a new Event - "Early Warning Systems for Human-Wildlife Conflict, Zoonotic Spillover, and Other Conservation Challenges" to Human-Wildlife Conflict
Stephanie O'Donnell added a new Discussion - "Fauna & Flora: Bridging geospatial data and people together for enhanced conservation management" to Geospatial
Stephanie O'Donnell added a new Discussion - "TagRanger: Redefining animal tracking iwth ad-hoc wireless networks and software-defined technology" to Animal Movement
Stephanie O'Donnell added a new Discussion - "Faces, Flukes, Fins and Flanks: How multispecies re-ID models are transforming Wild Me's work" to AI for Conservation
Stephanie O'Donnell added a new External Link - "ibm-nasa-geospatial (IBM NASA Geospatial)" to AI for Conservation
Stephanie O'Donnell added a new Discussion - "SURAKHSYA Portal for Human-Elephant Conflict - any updates? " to Human-Wildlife Conflict
Stephanie O'Donnell added a new Event - "Catch up with The Variety Hour: March 2024" to AI for Conservation
Stephanie O'Donnell added a new Career Opportunity - "Consultants - Mapping EU’s Marine Protected Areas and analyzing their ecological coherence" to Geospatial
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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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- Project Update — Nestling Growth App
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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Introduction to Conservation Technology
Environmental DNA for Terrestrial Vertebrate Conservation
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@dmorris joined Variety Hour to give us 'a bunch of lightning talks inside a lightning talk'. Check out the recording to get a whirlwind tour of some of the AI for nature work he...
13 December 2023
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Featuring some of the very best spider video you'll ever see.. @JayStafstrom has been pushing the boundaries of camera technology, developing new designs for low-cost remote...
13 December 2023
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Introducing the Inventory: The rise of the conservation tech wiki!
Stephanie O'Donnell
@JakeBurton and @HollyCormack have a first look at The Inventory, a WILDLABS project to build a dynamic, collaborative, wiki-inspired database of conservation technology. We...
13 December 2023
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Open-Source design guide for a low-cost, long-running aquatic stereo camera
Stephanie O'Donnell
Katie Dunkley's project has been getting a heap of attention in the conservation tech community - she very kindly joined Variety Hour to give us a walkthrough of her Open-Source...
13 December 2023
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New Toolkit to Help Communities in Africa to Live Safely with Elephants
Stephanie O'Donnell
@lucyeking99 opened this month's Variety Hour with a tour of Save the Elephant's evidence based toolbox of tried and tested methods that can help rural...
13 December 2023
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Benchmarking behavior classification of bio-logger data
Stephanie O'Donnell
Benjamin Hoffman is a Senior AI Research Scientist with Earth Species Project, and joined last Variety Hour to talk us through his work to explore using self supervision to detect behavioral patterns in raw sensor data...
13 December 2023
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Early Warning Systems (HWC) - successes/failures, recommendations?
Stephanie O'Donnell
Hi everyone, I'm getting a lot of questions come my way about what early warning systems are available and effective -in any sort of environment. I'm keen to crowdsource some...
13 December 2023
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@caseyslaught is a Full-stack engineer with Virunga National Park, and he's built a handy tool to host, visualize, and share massive orthomosaics and 3D models....
13 December 2023
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Watch now - The State of Conservation Technology: 3 Year Trends
Stephanie O'Donnell
@TaliaSpeaker and @Fanni joined our last Variety Hour to talk us through the key trends and takeaways from this first global assessment tracking evolving perceptions and...
13 December 2023
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Kinship Conservation Fellows
Stephanie O'Donnell
Applications for 2024 are open: Learn more and apply!
28 November 2023
Funding
Impact Shakers Accelerator
Stephanie O'Donnell
A 6-month tailored accelerator for underrepresented founders in Europe to scale their impact startup.
28 November 2023
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Hi wildlabbers, I have another colleague looking for support for getting started using AI for processing videos coming out of their camera traps - specifically for species ID...
27 November 2023
Stephanie O'Donnell commented on "ChatGPT for conservation"