Sue Palminteri

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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.

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Reproductive technology (and understanding of experimental psychology) needed to save a critically endangered rhino

Measuring the Heartbeat of the Delta

Tags that protect, as well as track, endangered carnivores

Could synthetic rhino horns help save the rhino?

Giving the handfish a hand

Applying open-source tracking technology to hunting research in Brazil

Coding for conservation: Hackathons generate apps and ideas

Gaining real-time information on wildlife health protects animals and people

Listening for giants

Can drones help democratize conservation monitoring?

Crime Scene Investigation Africa: Monitoring the illegal ivory trade with fingerprints

Using drones for wildlife anti-poaching efforts: questions to ask a UAS group

Tracking imperiled elephants with cutting-edge technology: an interview with Iain Douglas-Hamilton

Technology for Restoring Wildlife to the Wild, Wild West

Remote sensing is leading the way to a more transparent world

Using drones for anti-poaching: first, know your mission

Saving the unicorns: using the sun to produce freshwater and restore an endangered species

Tiger Awareness Week hits college campuses: building student pride for an endangered apex predator

Perimeter Defense: Four Technologies for Detecting and Preventing Illegal Logging

Personalizing climate change: spy cameras document polar bear behaviors on and off sea ice

Running Wild with Cheetah Expert Laurie Marker

Come together: collaboration key to harnessing information age technology

Sunrise to sunset: documenting warbler migrations with cheap, light geolocator tags

Hidden cameras, prosecutions, and passion: confronting the corruption at the heart of Africa’s illegal wildlife trade

WCTC update: tech designs advance in competition to beat wildlife crime

In defense of wildlife: the realities of using drones for anti-poaching

Blinded by the light: simple devices help protect farms and reduce human-wildlife conflict

Call of the Wild Tiger: using acoustics software to identify individual tigers by their calls

goTenna provides low-cost remote communication without a cell network

A researcher’s mission to keep people and elephants out of harm’s way in Kenya’s Trans-Mara District

GigaPan: Providing big picture context to conservation science without sacrificing the details

Linking environmental and animal movement data sets: how the Movebank Env-DATA System helps to explain snowy owl foraging behavior

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