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How to use the Bloomberg Terminal for advocacy work: the basics
Other stories in Mongabay’s series on using the Bloomberg Terminal in advocacy work: Part 2: Tracking assets for environmental advocacy work with Bloomberg Part 3: How to use the Bloomberg Terminal…
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.
Could conservation education in virtual reality help change the real world?
Through your big black helmet, you witness the massive bodies of redwoods rise before you from the emerald undergrowth like an ancient congregation. A cool breeze breathes by, rustling the…
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
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Undercover robots: On a mission to stop poaching
Across North America, wildlife agencies use robotic decoys to ensnare illegal hunters.
Participatory Mapping in the Mobile Age
Deep in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, with peaks that soar over 18,000 feet over the Colombian coast, the Kogi people live on roughly six million isolated from…
Portable scanners that identify timber species could detect illegal logging
Many timber woods of conservation concern are hard to distinguish anatomically from species resembling them, especially when the wood sample lacks leaves or other botanical features. For instance, big-leaf mahogany…
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
CyberTracking for Africa’s most threatened ape
Cross River gorillas benefit from strengthened law enforcement thanks in part to mobile data collection, management and analysis with CyberTracker monitoring.
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.
Watching for illegal fishing with Eyes on the Seas
Approximately 120,000 fishing vessels sail the oceans at any given moment, many fishing illicitly. Globally, one in five marine fish caught ends up on a $23.5 billion black market. Unrecorded…
Getting SMART about Wildlife Crime
From Laos to Belize, forest personnel use the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) to more efficiently anticipate and combat wildlife crime.
Just Text It In: Streamline Survey Collection through SMS
The TextIt service helps you build your own surveys and deploy them using simple SMS exchanges in remote and urban areas.
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.
