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					<title>Code for cod and tech for tuna at the 2018 Fishackathon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/code-for-cod-and-tech-for-tuna-at-the-2018-fishackthon/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Feb 2018 11:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Colleen O'Brien]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aquaculture, Crowdsourcing, Fisheries, Fishing, Marine, Technology, Tuna, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Technological advances have revolutionized the global fishing industry. Depth-finders and sonar have taken much of the guesswork out of locating fish, and larger, more durable nets and trawls have drastically increased catch numbers. However, current commercial fishing and aquaculture practices are not sustainable.  The most recent edition of the State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Technological advances have revolutionized the global fishing industry. Depth-finders and sonar have taken much of the guesswork out of locating fish, and larger, more durable nets and trawls have drastically increased catch numbers. However, current commercial fishing and aquaculture practices are not sustainable.  The most recent edition of the State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) reports that nearly one-third of the world’s fish stocks are fished at ‘biologically unsustainable levels.’ The FAO’s 2016 report on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing estimates that IUU fishing brings in 11-26 million additional tons of fish each year. A school of jacks on Sipadan Island, Malaysia. Photo credit: Greg Asner | divephoto.org Global farmed fish production surpassed beef production in 2011; however, industrial-scale aquaculture relies on wild-sourced fishmeal, which is unsustainable and further threatens wild populations. In 2014, the U.S. Department of State’s Secretary’s Office of Global Partnerships partnered with the non-profit organization HackerNest to launch the first Fishackathon. Fishackathon brings together fish and aquaculture experts, coders and other technologists to develop innovative, but practical, tech-based solutions to the sustainability challenges facing the world’s fisheries. This year, local groups are conducting Fishackathons in 40 cities in over 30 countries around the world on February 11-12th. Fisheries and aquaculture experts have identified the top challenges facing aquaculture and fisheries management and submitted ‘Challenge Statements’ that summarize an issue and provide a possible tech-based solution. This year’s 11 challenges are grouped under three main&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/02/code-for-cod-and-tech-for-tuna-at-the-2018-fishackthon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-203604</doi>				</item>
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					<title>10 top conservation tech innovations from 2017</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/10-top-conservation-tech-innovations-from-2017/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jan 2018 17:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Camera Trapping, Citizen Science, Communication, Conservation Technology, Crowdsourcing, data, DNA, Drones, Genetics, Mapping, Mobile, Monitoring, Portable, Research, Satellite Imagery, Sensors, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Technology is changing how we investigate and protect planet Earth. The increased portability and reduced cost of data collection and synthesis tools, for instance — from visual and acoustic sensors to DNA sequencers, online mapping platforms, and apps for sharing photos — have rapidly transformed how we research and conserve the natural world. These tools [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Technology is changing how we investigate and protect planet Earth. The increased portability and reduced cost of data collection and synthesis tools, for instance — from visual and acoustic sensors to DNA sequencers, online mapping platforms, and apps for sharing photos — have rapidly transformed how we research and conserve the natural world. The still-intact Amazon rainforest in southeastern Peru. Photo credit: Amazon Aerobotany These tools afford research and conservation projects across the globe an unprecedented capacity to access, collect, organize, analyze, and convey information. But these new tools are being developed and deployed so quickly, it can be hard to stay on top of them all. Below, we review some of 2017’s conservation tech trends that have helped researchers and conservationists better understand their species and systems of interest, monitor their status, and take actions to conserve them. We hope Mongabay-Wildtech’s coverage of their experiences will help readers advance their own projects and priorities. A pair of saki monkeys approach an arboreal camera trap in the Peruvian rainforest. Photo credit: SCBI-CCS Understand target species and systems 1. Camera traps are remote cameras that take photos when a sensor is triggered by the movement of an animal or person and, increasingly, send the image in real-time to the operator. They have helped researchers document the presence of elusive wildlife  for decades, but innovative scientists have begun to apply this technology to new environments and species. The installation of camera traps in trees, for example, has successfully documented canopy use by&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/10-top-conservation-tech-innovations-from-2017/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-202638</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/crowdsourcing-the-forest-for-the-trees/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Nov 2017 23:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon and Peru]]>
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							<![CDATA[Citizen Science, Crowdsourcing, data, Drones, Forests, Remote Sensing, Research, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A pair of drones and the efforts of nearly 3,000 volunteers have helped scientists carry out a detailed study of the trees within a 400-hectare (1,000-acre) patch of the Amazon, in what the researchers are welcoming as a new paradigm of crowdsourced research. The Amazon Aerobotany project, part of a series of “Wired Amazon” projects [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A pair of drones and the efforts of nearly 3,000 volunteers have helped scientists carry out a detailed study of the trees within a 400-hectare (1,000-acre) patch of the Amazon, in what the researchers are welcoming as a new paradigm of crowdsourced research. The Amazon Aerobotany project, part of a series of “Wired Amazon” projects sponsored by the Rainforest Expeditions ecotourism company, aims to apply new technologies and methods to the costly and labor-intensive task of monitoring the rainforest canopy. “I saw a great opportunity to collect high-resolution imagery of the rainforest canopy that could be analyzed with the help of citizen science volunteers to generate useful data for ecological monitoring and conservation efforts,” ecologist and project lead Varun Swamy wrote in an email to Mongabay-Wildtech. The Amazon rainforest in Madre de Dios state in southeastern Peru, seen from above. Photo credit: Amazon Aerobotany “We created the Amazon Aerobotany project using the free, open-source tools available on The Zooniverse, which also hosts the project and informs Zooniverse users across the world of its existence,” he added. The project studies how the phenology (the leafing, flowering and fruiting cycles) of rainforest trees in the southwestern Amazon varies by season and by year. It also examines how this variability may be influenced by climatic factors, primarily temperature and rainfall. These cycles drive not just animal diets, but also the pollination of flowers and the dispersal of seeds, which, in turn, influence which trees reproduce and where. Parrots and scarlet macaws eat the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/crowdsourcing-the-forest-for-the-trees/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-200914</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Geospatial data for the people, by the people</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/geospatial-data-for-the-people-by-the-people/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Feb 2016 04:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Pennsylvania and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Crowdsourcing, Fracking, Remote Sensing, and Satellite Imagery]]>
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							<![CDATA[SkyTruth’s FrackFinder project combines remote sensing, cloud computing, and an engaged public to map drilling and hydraulic fracturing using crowd-sourced image analysis of satellite and aerial imagery.]]>
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							<![CDATA[How do you motivate people to learn and care about their environments? Researchers in various scientific fields have begun involving interested people in collecting data on the ground, verifying data online, and contacting authorities and each other to act on existing data. Connecting those data to human health impacts may engage the public even more. The goal of SkyTruth is to motivate people to use satellite imagery, geospatial data, and digital mapping tools to personally investigate what’s happening—good and bad—in the places that they care about. Pollution reports around a fracking waste pond (center). Image credit: SkyTruth This and other groups download detailed aerial imagery free, or nearly so, from government entities, including NASA, NOAA, and the US Department of Agriculture, and use it to allow the public to see what’s happening around us from a point of view impossible to gain otherwise. An earlier WildTech post detailed SkyTruth’s history, how the group obtains and applies big remotely sensed data sets to improve environmental awareness and industrial transparency in projects such as Global Fishing Watch, and where they see remote sensing technology headed in the next five years. As part of that same interview, WildTech asked SkyTruth founder John Amos and Chief Technology Officer Paul Woods how their team has used cloud computing to integrate high-tech, remotely sensed data with public participation to heighten awareness of environmental change, using their FrackFinder project as a case study. The FrackFinder project maps sites where drilling for natural gas using hydraulic fracturing (fracking)&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2016/02/geospatial-data-for-the-people-by-the-people/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-177777</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Perimeter Defense: Four Technologies for Detecting and Preventing Illegal Logging</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2015/11/perimeter-defense-four-technologies-for-detecting-and-preventing-illegal-logging/</link>
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					<pubDate>05 Nov 2015 16:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Arpitha KodiveriJonathan MasonLoretta CheungMeaghan Parker]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[California]]>
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							<![CDATA[Crowdsourcing, Drones, Forests, Illegal Logging, Logging, Monitoring, Satellite Imagery, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Some key findings from a recent technology meeting identifying challenges and opportunities for applying new technologies to monitoring forests and preventing illegal logging.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest defenders—from indigenous groups to government authorities—continue to struggle in stopping illegal logging. Faced with scant resources, rampant corruption and vast tracts of difficult terrain to monitor, being an effective forest manager is often an impossible task. So they’re turning to a growing suite of forest-monitoring technologies. These tools, which are in various stages of development and deployment, are providing bird’s eye forest views and remote detection that was the stuff of science fiction just 10 years ago. Boat loaded with wood on the Tambopata River, Peru. Photo credit: George Powell World Resources Institute (WRI)* recently hosted a technology summit, “Perimeter Defense: Innovative Technologies for Detecting and Preventing Illegal Logging”, in San Francisco to examine the challenges of monitoring forests and preventing illegal logging, as well as how to scale up effective deployment of technology. Participants discussed some of the most cutting-edge technologies with current and potential application to forest monitoring, including: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Better known as “drones,” UAVs have endless non-military applications, including wildlife conservation, traffic and natural disaster management, territory mapping and forest carbon stock measurement. Guatemala’s National Council of Protected Areas (CONAP), for example, has been exploring the use of drones to monitor and enhance patrolling of the country’s protected areas. Indigenous communities in Peru and in Guyana, with the help of Digital Democracy, are using drones to map their territory and detect illegal logging and mining activities. Marc Goss teaching rangers to fly drones in Tanzania. Photo credit: Nathan Hahn On-the-Ground Sensors Trailguard and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2015/11/perimeter-defense-four-technologies-for-detecting-and-preventing-illegal-logging/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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