Digital technologies increasingly shape the way we understand the global environment, and try to conserve it. In the field of biodiversity conservation, digital tracking devices offer astonishing insights into animal behaviour and ecology, and novel opportunities for conservation management. Human understanding of wild animals is increasingly dependent on digital media and data. But does the enrolment of animals into environments change the ways in which we understand nature? Do digital technologies bring us closer to actual nature, or separate us further from it? Using examples from the livestreaming of digital ‘webcams’ of nesting birds and the enrolment of wild animal movement data into digital games, this seminar will report research that explores the significance of the digital revolution for the conservation of nature.

In his keynote Professor Bill Adams will address questions around how digital technologies shape our understanding of nature, followed by a Q&A discussion with the audience.

Event programme:

• Introduction by Nina Teresa Kiderlin, Executive Director of the Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES), Geneva Graduate Institute
• Keynote discussion by Bill Adams, Claudio Segré Professor of Conservation and Development, Geneva Graduate Institute
• Q&A session with the audience

This event is part of the IHEID Sustainability Week.