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Drones enable fast, accurate wildlife counts, study shows

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 14 Feb 2018

10 top conservation tech innovations from 2017

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Jan 2018
The Amazon rainforest along southeastern Peru's Tambopata River, seen from above.

Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 7 Nov 2017
The scale-crested pygmy tyrant lives in Central America and northern South America. This individual was capturing during a bird survey, banded, and released. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Author Steven Kotler on tackling the biodiversity crisis with technology

Mongabay 25 Oct 2017

Drones and artificial intelligence image processing improving the ‘koality’ of wildlife monitoring

Lalini Pedris 16 Mar 2017

New drone analysis highlights conservation challenges in Myanmar

Ann Wang 30 Nov 2016

Off-the-shelf hobby drones are helping save elephants in Tanzania

Mike Gaworecki 18 Nov 2016

$1m for devising best way to map Indonesia’s peatlands

Sapariah Saturi 5 Mar 2016

Can Cutting-Edge Drone Technology Help Answer the Age-Old Question of Bipedalism?

Andrew Lewis 12 Feb 2016

Some Indigenous groups wary of REDD+ following Paris Climate Agreement

Mitch Paquette 12 Feb 2016

Australia launches shark-tracking drones and ‘smart’ drum lines to prevent shark attacks

Becca Cudmore, Shreya Dasgupta 27 Nov 2015

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

NIr Tenenbaum 13 Nov 2015
Boat loaded with wood on the Tambopata River, Peru

Perimeter Defense: Four Technologies for Detecting and Preventing Illegal Logging

Arpitha Kodiveri, Jonathan Mason, Meaghan Parker, Loretta Cheung 5 Nov 2015

A bird’s-eye view of forest restoration

Caleb O'Brien 26 Oct 2015

Photos: Drone captures stunning images of killer whales

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Oct 2015

A big house on the prairie: assessing prairie dog colonies for black-footed ferret habitat

Katie Taylor 7 Oct 2015

Greenpeace releases dramatic drone video of Indonesia’s fires

Rhett Ayers Butler 7 Oct 2015

Can technology help clean up the palm oil industry?

Rhett Ayers Butler 1 Oct 2015
Quadcopter drone. Photo courtesy of ConservationDrones.org

Conservation Drones Summit streaming live

17 Sep 2015
Elephants at water hole, Chobe, Botswana

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

Max Ciaglo 11 Sep 2015

Demystifying Drones: UAS’s in Wildlife Anti-Poaching Efforts

NIr Tenenbaum 12 Aug 2015

Drone Herders: Tanzanian rangers and researchers use UAVs to protect elephants and crops

Mike DiGirolamo 27 May 2015

Tapping into evolutionary responses to guard crops against elephants

Nathan Hahn 30 Apr 2015

Drones to scan the Amazon rainforest for hidden civilizations

Mongabay.com 18 Feb 2015

Brazil to test drones in monitoring the Amazon rainforest

Mongabay.com, Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2014

On edge of extinction, could drones and technology save the Little Dodo?

Jeremy Hance 10 Feb 2014

Wildlife drones could revolutionize aerial surveys of animal populations

Jeremy Hance 30 Sep 2013

Using model airplanes to help save the planet

Rhett Ayers Butler 12 Sep 2013

Using drones to monitor wildlife in India

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 9 Apr 2013

Google puts $5M toward anti-poaching drone technology

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Dec 2012

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