Announcing Our First Ever Conservation Hackathon
Great news! We have set the date for our first ever conservation hackathon! We will be holding our first event on the 4th April 2014. We will be looking for new ways to visualise global biodiversity,...
View ArticleHacking for Conservation at the Rainmaking Loft
Our first conservation hackathon ran from 6pm to 6pm on April 4th 2014, at the Rainmaking Loft. We were thrilled to welcome 15 participants from science and programming backgrounds, and together we...
View ArticleWelcome to our new Website!
It’s been a long time coming but the official Conservation Hackathon website is finally here! We’re busy planning lots of events for the next few months, and we’ll be announcing them here, so keep...
View ArticleHack the IUCN Redlist
Monitoring the conservation status of species and classifying threats and pressures on their populations is important to highlight conservation priorities, design meaningful conservation strategies and...
View ArticleBook Your Place to Hack the Redlist
You can now book your place at our Hack the Redlist Hackathon on November 15th 2014 by clicking here
View ArticleHack the RedList at London Zoo
On Saturday 15th November we held our second Conservation Hackathon, this time focussed on data from the IUCN RedList. The event, held at the Activity Den at London Zoo, ran from 10:30 until 5pm, and...
View ArticlePython Hack at UCL Tackles Living Planet Index
Recently, Dr. Robin Freeman (Institute of Zoology, founder of the Conservation Hackathon) worked with Rachel Lane (UCL, Institute of Zoology) and the UCL department of Computer Sciences, to provide...
View ArticleBiodiversity Hack at The Natural History Museum
Biodiversity indicators and models are a powerful way to monitor and understand human impacts on wildlife, and there are numerous different biodiversity indices that attempt to track populations over...
View ArticleMore tickets available for Biodiversity Hack at the Natural History Museum
We’ve had an overwhelming response to our Biodiversity Hack and lots of you have contacted us since the event sold out last week. We’re pleased to announce that we have been able to expand our...
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