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Article / Technical Difficulties: Cleared for Takeoff

In their three-part interview from our new series Technical Difficulties, Colby Loucks and Eric Becker share the failures they've...

Article / From Data Collection to Decisions

The speed at which data travels from the point of collection to a format which is understandable and useful for decision makers can be of...

Article / Gaming for Good: Runescape and Angry Birds

Can games raise awareness of conservation issues like the illegal wildlife trade? In part one of his case study for the Gaming for...

Article / Gaming for Good: Minecraft and Quiz Up

Can games have real world impacts on issues like the illegal wildlife trade? In part two of his case study for the Gaming for Conservation...

Article / Technology for Traceability

Traceability (knowing where products come from and how they are made) is a foundational pre-cursor for many sustainability interventions....

Article / TEAM Network and Wildlife Insights

Operating the largest tropical forest camera trap network globally, TEAM Network has accumulated over 2.6 million images. How can large...

Article / Bringing Conservation Technology to Life

We are living in the midst of a pretty exciting era. Never before has humanity been more educated, more connected, more enabled, or more...

Event / Virtual Field Trip: Conservation Technology with Shah Selbe

Join conservation technologist, founder of Conservify, and WILDLABS community member Shah Selbe in this free online event this Wednesday,...

Event / How do I turn a conservation tech project into a product?

In this Tech Tutors episode, Shah Selbe answered the question, How do I turn a conservation tech project into a product? In this episode,...

Article / ContentMine: Mining Helpful Facts for Conservation

Thousands of papers and reports about flora and fauna are published each year. While peer-reviewed published information is vitally...

Article / Can UAVs be Used to Measure Forest Quality?

A team of researchers is using UAVs to photograph tropical forest canopy with the aim of developing low-cost methods for measuring forest...

Article / Canopy height mapping with drones

Tom Swinfield and colleagues at the Forest Ecology and Conservation Group have assessed the quality of three dimensional forest models...

Article / Sustainable Palm Oil Transparency Toolkit (SPOTT)

The Sustainable Palm Oil Transparency Toolkit (SPOTT) is an online platform providing practical information for stakeholders in the palm...

Article / How Open Source Technologies Could Dramatically Reduce the Cost of Tagging Green Sea Turtles

Current efforts to track endangered Green Sea Turtles rely on tags that cost upward of $2000 per unit. Alasdair Davies of the Zoological...

Funding Opportunity / The Plant-Powered Camera Trap Challenge

Are you an architect, engineer, designer or a scientist? Can you design and manufacture a prototype open source plant-BES (bio...

Article / Plant-Powered Camera Trap Breakthrough

Microbial fuel cells, developed by Plant-powered Camera Trap Challenge winners Plant-E, have been used successfully with Xnor.ai's energy...

Event / How do I use satellite IoT to track wildlife & monitor remote equipment?

Catch up on our Tech Tutors episode with Alasdair Davies, who answered the question, How do I use satellite IoT to track wildlife &...

Article / Sustained Effort: Can We Improve the Sustainability of Marine Telemetry Tags?

In this article from Alasdair Davies, he discusses how marine tracking's unique challenges could impact its potential for sustainability in...

Event / Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge Accelerator Bootcamp

Earlier this month, the 16 prize winners of the Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge were called to Washington D.C. for an Accelerator Boot Camp....

Event / Perspectives from the World Ranger Congress

The 8th annual World Ranger Congress was held in Colorado, USA from May 21-27th 2016. John H. Probert attended the conference as a...

Article / Can Drones Live up to the Hype?

Drones are being explored for a spectrum of applications in conservation that include mapping, biodiversity inventories, antipoaching...

Article / Download New Conservation Tech Guidelines: Camera Traps, Acoustics and LiDAR

The inherent complexity of not only deploying technologies in the field but also doing so in a scientifically rigorous manner can prove a...

Article / Conservation Technology User Guidelines Issue 4: Satellite remote sensing for conservation

This latest chapter in the Conservation Technology Series from WWF-UK looks at the opportunities, challenges and state-of-the-art of...

Article / How can technology help us monitor those small cold-blooded critters that live in caves?

Caves don't tend to be well-liked ecosystems, being extremely dark, often quite cramped, and slippery. And the creepy-crawlies that live...