title: Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity.
abstract: Technologies to identify individual animals, follow their movements, identify and locate animal and plant species, and assess the status of their habitats remotely have become better, faster, and cheaper as threats to the survival of species are increasing. New technologies alone do not save species, and new data create new problems. For example, improving technologies alone cannot prevent poaching: solutions require providing appropriate tools to the right people. Habitat loss is another driver: the challenge here is to connect existing sophisticated remote sensing with species occurrence data to predict where species remain. Other challenges include assembling a wider public to crowdsource data, managing the massive quantities of data generated, and developing solutions to rapidly emerging threats.
authors.affiliation: Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708, USA. Electronic address: stuartpimm@me.com.
authors.forename: Stuart L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Pimm
authors.affiliation: WildTrack Inc., JMP Division, SAS Institute, SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC 27513, USA.
authors.forename: Sky
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Alibhai
authors.affiliation: North Carolina Zoological Park, 4401 Zoo Parkway, Asheboro, NC 27401, USA.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bergl
authors.affiliation: Conservation X Labs, 2380 Champlain Street NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA.
authors.forename: Alex
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dehgan
authors.affiliation: US Geological Survey/Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS), Center/Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708, USA.
authors.forename: Chandra
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Giri
authors.affiliation: WildTrack Inc., JMP Division, SAS Institute, SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC 27513, USA.
authors.forename: Zoë
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Jewell
authors.affiliation: Microsoft Research 14820 NE 36th Street, Redmond, WA 98052, USA.
authors.forename: Lucas
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Joppa
authors.affiliation: North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 West Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601, USA; Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.
authors.forename: Roland
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kays
authors.affiliation: iNaturalist Department, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Loarie
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000379:methods*; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods*; D017753:Ecosystem; D010944:Plants; D058998:Remote Sensing Technology; D013223:Statistics as Topic
keywords: conservation; crowdsourcing; innovation; remote-sensing; technology; traditional knowledge