Conservation drones News

RSS
60 stories

Five-year rainforest tech competition culminates with four winners

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Nov 2024

At the ‘Biodiversity Olympics,’ scientists work to democratize rainforest tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Aug 2024
A pangolin fitted with a radio transmitter prior to re-release.

On foot and by drone, radio tracking helps rehabilitate pangolins in Vietnam

Claudia Geib 10 May 2024
Acorns on an oak tree.

Drone cameras help scientists distinguish between drought stress & fungus in oaks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Apr 2024
A Geoffroy's spider monkey

Tech to recover rainforest: Interview with Osa Conservation’s Carolina Pinto & Paulina Rodriguez

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Feb 2024
The platforms can carry environmental sensors and could be useful tools to disperse sensors in far-flung areas.

Origami-inspired sensor platforms tumble like leaves to study forests

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Oct 2023
Jan Gogarten and Christina Lynggaard

Swab a leaf and find a species. Or 50, thanks to eDNA

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Oct 2023
Global map of the oceans including elevation. Image courtesy of Esri.

To protect the oceans, we must map them (commentary)

Dawn Wright 10 Aug 2023
Debbie Saunders

‘Immense potential’ in tech: Q&A with Wildlife Drones CEO Debbie Saunders

Abhishyant Kidangoor 31 Jul 2023
Canopy in fall.

Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears

Juliette Portala 27 Jul 2023
A leatherback hatchling.

Tag team effort brings tech to aid leatherback turtle conservation

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Jul 2023
A Cao-vit gibbon in a tree.

Drones improve counts of rare Cao-vit gibbon, identify conservation priorities

Sean Mowbray 12 Jul 2023
Drone carrying self-burying seed carriers .

New Tree Tech: Cutting-edge drones give reforestation a helping hand

Claire Asher 12 Jul 2023
A operator flying drones.

New Tree Tech: AI, drones, satellites and sensors give reforestation a boost

Claire Asher 10 Jul 2023
An Asian honey bee on a yellow flower.

Scientists hope to tech the heck out of eDNA sampling with drones, robots

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Jul 2023
Spot, the robotic dog, is equipped with cameras and audio recorders.

Meet the tech projects competing for a $10m prize to save rainforests

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Jun 2023
Kevin Marriott with a drone.

Competing for rainforest conservation: Q&A with XPRIZE’s Kevin Marriott

Abhishyant Kidangoor 2 Jun 2023
It’s early morning and Lun Yi feeds her chicken.

Small farmers in limbo as Cambodia wavers on Tonle Sap conservation rules

Hanna Hett | Shaurya Kshatri | Megan Wilde | Aastha Sethi 28 Apr 2023

Technology makes studying wildlife easier, but access isn’t equal

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Oct 2022

‘Amped-up citizen science’ to save the world: Q&A with Conservation AI Hub’s Grant Hamilton

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Aug 2022

Researchers turn to drones for that big-picture view of the forest canopy

Caitlin Looby 21 Mar 2022

Indigenous Comcáac turtle group saves sea turtles in Mexico’s Gulf of California

Astrid Arellano 17 Feb 2022
TNC scientist Eddie Game checks an acoustic recorder in Papua New Guinea. Photo © Justine E. Hausheer / The Nature Conservancy

Collaboration is key to scaling conservation technologies (commentary)

Jonathan Palmer 7 Dec 2021

Armed with data and smartphones, Amazon communities boost fight against deforestation

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 12 Jul 2021

$10 million XPRIZE Rainforest contest announces 33 qualifying teams

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 22 Jun 2021
Ranger training in Zimbabwe

Saving Africa’s biodiversity is a challenging, but urgent necessity, says Rodger Schlickeisen

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Mar 2021

An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary)

Jonah Wittkamper 1 Mar 2021

Canadian First Nation deploys ROV in push for stronger marine protection

Claudia Geib 25 Jan 2021
Sea turtle in the Pacific.

Nature drone photos: 2020 highlights (Insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 25 Dec 2020

Madagascar experiments with drones for its massive reforestation effort

Rivonala Razafison 19 Oct 2020

‘Hummingbird’ spy creature films millions of monarchs taking flight

Liz Kimbrough 1 May 2020
Blackwater lake, rainforest, and the whitewater Zacambu River in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Bird’s eye view: Drone photos of the Amazon rainforest (insider)

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Apr 2020

you're currently offline