What we do

Global wildlife faces mounting pressures from habitat loss, climate change, and human activity. Yet conservation efforts remain under-resourced and reliant on slow, expensive methods with limited geographic reach, especially for elusive or wide-ranging species. To drive effective conservation, we need faster, affordable, and globally integrated tools to monitor animal populations in real time.

Wild Me Lab builds open software and AI tools that transform how we monitor, research, and protect wildlife. These technologies give conservationists, scientists, and enforcement agencies scalable solutions that accelerate research, foster collaboration, and enable smarter species protection.

WILDBOOK
An open-source software platform that combines AI and citizen science to identify animal species and re-identify individual animals across images. It enables long-term tracking and supports nearly 300 species and more than 1.8 million encounters worldwide.

FORESTRY
A software and AI system that brings remote sensing to the individual tree level, supporting comprehensive inventories and health predictions across large landscapes.

FIN FINDER
An AI-powered mobile app that helps customs officials identify shark and ray fins instantly to combat illegal wildlife trade.

SeadragonSearch, powered by Wildbook, is changing how researchers and citizen scientists track and understand leafy and weedy seadragons along Australia’s southern coast. Using AI, recreational divers and underwater photographers have documented more than 6,600 individual seadragons by their unique spot patterns, building an unprecedented database of their movements, behaviors, and population trends. Their work is changing our understanding of these enigmatic fish, revealing for example that seadragons can live up to 16 years, and it is informing their conservation. Dive deeper on our blog.

“Wild Me has allowed our citizen science project SeadragonSearch to be scaled up across the whole geographic range; this is something we could not achieve otherwise.”

— Dr. Nerida Wilson, SeadragonSearch