The Connected Forest: How Your Used Mobile Phone Can Help Save Rainforests

Via Sustaining People, a look at how recycled cell phones can be used as in an innovative network of sensors:

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Google-Powered Maps Fight Deforestation

Via the Guardian, another look at how Global Forest Watch, a mapping platform powered by Google, is using technology to keep an eye on the world's forests:

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Drones: Latest Tool In Conservation Science

Via the Sacramento Bee, a look at how drones are revolutionizing conservation:

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A Virtual Dragnet: Using Satellites To Combat Illegal Overfishing

Via The Economist, a report on a new satellite-based surveillance system keeping a close eye on illegal overfishing:

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Aerial Ecology: Drones Collect Environmental DNA (eDNA)

Via MIT's , an interesting report on the use of drones to

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Drone Conservation Mapping In Namibia

Via Drone Adventures, a look at some of the variety of uses for drone mapping in conservation:

There is much talk on how to use drone mapping technology for nature
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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