Via Oracle, an interesting look at how technology has facilitated the world’s largest, most comprehensive longitudinal collection of data on any wild gorilla population—and made it available to the
Courtesy of Nature, an article on how sharing big data from satellite imagery and other Earth observations across Asia, the Middle East, and east Africa is key to sustainability:
Via TechCrunch, an interesting report on how one organization is using augemented reality, gamification, and mapping to help improve conservation outcomes:
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