Thoughts and comment

GeoSeals trialled in Ethiopia

It was a warm afternoon in late May 2022, in a coffee shop in Portsmouth, when Ruby Hill and I first questioned “how cost-effectively could we track a bar of soap?”. We were questioning which tracking technologies and approaches could best tackle the challenge...
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Making Waves: Open Hardware as a Solution to Scaling up Bycatch Mitigation

We discussed why we believe bycatch occurs, how open hardware and science solutions could help to better understand, monitor and mitigate bycatch, and how we could collectively infuse openness into marine conservation policy globally.

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New Horizons for rehabilitated sea turtles

The Olive Ridley Project and the Arribada Initiative are co-developing new low-cost telemetry tags to scale up the monitoring of rehabilitated sea turtles.Developing sea turtle telemetry tags to track injured and rehabilitated sea turtles, post-release, can require...
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Three years in Antarctica – affordable and durable time-lapse monitoring

How it started The Arribada Initiative strives to make conservation technology open, affordable, and accessible to all who need them. Combining clever design and low-cost off-the-shelf parts, we have delivered plastic waste trackers, animal biologgers, acoustic...
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