Via National Geographic, a look at the role drones can play in wildlife conservation efforts:

In the international fight against poaching, eyes

Via China Daily, a report on a joint Chinese-Brazilian monitoring program:

Deforestation rates in the Brazilian Amazon dropped 18 percent this year, reaching the second-lowest recorded level since

Via the Calgary Herald, a report on a state of the art wireless sensor network that can be deployed in remote forests around the world to monitor high resolution

Via Terra Daily, a report on ways in which remote sensing can contribute to conservation:

Via Outside Magazine, a brief look at the convergence of big data and conservation:

Poaching is big business, with black-market elephant tusks bringing in $30,000 and rhino horns fetching $300,000.  But conservationists are fighting back with an arsenal of increasingly effective high tech weapons.

Courtesy of The Verge, a look at Global Fishing Watch, a new initiative to provide insight into the growing fisheries crisis:

Environmental groups have