How Africa’s Largest IoT Conservation Network Supports Wildlife Protection

Via Fast Company, a look at how an IoT conservation network supports wildlife protection in Kenya by leveraging cloud-based sensors and networks to collect, monitor, and analyze environmental data in real time:

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In part due to illegal fishing, more than one third of the world’s fishery stocks have fallen below biologically sustainable levels, threatening the more than 3 billion people who depend on seafood for animal protein and further imperiling maritime ecosystems already stressed by elevated levels of carbon dioxide. It’s rampant. Seafood is

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Oceans To Get Better Protection With Connected Underwater Technology

Via the EU's Horizon Innovation Magazine, a look at how - amid rising sea levels, plastics pollution and overfishing - the emerging Internet of

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Tracking Whales As They Cruise The Arctic

Via Terra Daily, an article on how researchers were able to simultaneously tracking multiple whales using fiber-optic cables in the Arctic, off the coast of Svalbard:

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Reconnecting To Nature Via Apps

Courtesy of The Washington Post, a look at how naturalist apps, designed and managed by scientists with world-class data, help us reconnect with the world around us:

First I see the wall barley, like tiny fields of wheat on the side of the road. Then a profusion of musk stork’s-bill overflowing with purple flowers. That’s
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Transforming Nature Conservation With The Power of Satellite Imagery

Via Terra Daily, a look at how satellite imagery is transforming conservation:

Satellite imagery is changing conservation as we know it. By being able
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New technical innovations such as location-tracking devices, GPS and satellite communications, remote sensors, laser-imaging technologies, light detection and ranging” (LIDAR) sensing, high-resolution satellite imagery, digital mapping, advanced statistical analytical software and even biotechnology and synthetic biology are revolutionizing conservation in two key ways: first, by revealing the state of our world in unprecedented detail; and, second, by making available more data to more people in more places. The mission of this blog is to track these technical innovations that may give conservation the chance – for the first time – to keep up with, and even get ahead of, the planet’s most intractable environmental challenges. It will also examine the unintended consequences and moral hazards that the use of these new tools may cause.Read More