Hot stuff: improving chili fence effectiveness (in protecting crops from elephants)
Some tips from a chili fence expert on how to make the most of a low-tech approach to reducing crop raiding and retaliatory killing of elephants
Articles by Sue Palminteri
Sue Palminteri -- Mongabay's wildtech editor, conservation biologist, professional tennis player, and long-time exercise enthusiast -- passed away on November 30th, 2019. She was 54. Sue is greatly missed by her friends, colleagues, and family. Her contributions to conservation were immense.
Solving Global Grand Challenges, One MOOC at a Time
A new online course aims to address the complex challenges facing conservation and development.
Identifying the drivers of Amazon deforestation through high-tech maps and stories
The MAAP project integrates a range of satellite imagery and analysis tools to detect and disclose deforestation across the Peruvian Amazon.
Bringing Star Trek tricorder analysis to the 21st century
Handheld, palm-sized, lightweight DNA preparation and sequencing devices are coming your way soon.
Online forest mapping made easy
Global Forest Watch enables you to monitor tree cover and forest change for your region of interest in a free online platform.
Five technologies help thwart illegal logging by tracing wood’s origin
Timber tracking tech helps governments and business trace movements of wood products and verify their timber supply chains.
Reducing human-wildlife conflict in the blink of a light
Invented independently by a US game bird farmer, a young African herder and an Australian sheep farmer, disruptive lights can dissuade lions and other predators from attacking livestock.
Search, map, measure, and count
Inspiration: 10 novel ways to use drones for conservation
Want to identify that bug or beetle in your photo? Ask the crowd.
The iSpot web application helps further biodiversity knowledge by connecting users interested in identifying the species they capture in photos.
Light, long-lasting and low-cost: the technology needs of field conservationists and wildlife researchers
Results of an assessment of the technology needs of front-line conservationists and researchers that informs wildtech-mongabay-com.mongabay.com
Earth Day and Half Earth
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Tech for Tigers: keeping tabs on forest habitat to conserve an iconic cat
Satellite analysis reveals tiger habitats are more intact than expected; an area large enough to double the wild tiger population remains
The tech-noses of the wildlife conservation world
A field biologist explains how conservation dogs enhance our ability to understand and protect wild species.
Can new technologies help solve the mysteries of migration?
The International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space (ICARUS) Initiative strives to develop tiny tracking tags to follow animal movements globally to answer key conservation and human health questions.
A Beginner’s Guide to Aerostats
Comprised of an aerial platform, a payload, a station, an uplink and a downlink, helium-filled balloons show potential to provide 24/7 communications and surveillance, even in remote areas.
Bringing field surveys into the modern, mobile world
Key features, benefits, and limitations of a free, open-source data software program with a community-based chili-fence project case study.
After Cecil: lion perturbation, conservation, and value to a global society
Six months after Cecil’s death shook the world, the scientist who had been studying the lion assesses the early days of his research, lion conservation, and the meaning of Cecil’s viral story
Tracking technologies help to identify key marine areas for basking sharks
How are several satellite tag technologies used in tandem to track movements of an iconic and wide-ranging marine species?
Can Cutting-Edge Drone Technology Help Answer the Age-Old Question of Bipedalism?
The Ugalla Primate Project uses several types of drones to map the movement patterns of western Tanzania’s elusive Issa Valley chimpanzees.
Can a virtual fence help protect birds from human structures?
New geofence system integrating solar-powered biotelemetric tags reduces California condor collisions with wind turbines.
