- Global Challenges: Tapping the world’s smartest thinkers because genius ideas are everywhere.

Your $26 today is an investment in the future of forests, wildlife, and ecosystems everywhere.

➡️ Donate: www.conservationxlabs.com/engage#donate

- #CXLFireChallenge: Supporting innovations from decision support tools for Tribal Nations to rapid power line insulation via drones.

- @wildmeorg.bsky.social Lab: Combines open-source software, cutting-edge AI, and citizen science to track wildlife & support anti-poaching.

What your investment supports: We're moving faster and smarter using innovative tech.

- Sentinel: Our real-time AI monitoring tool turning passive camera traps into actionable data.
- Every Tree a Sensor: Using AI/satellite imagery to identify fire damage in giant sequoias.

To learn more about the study on illegal gold mining in Brazil’s Tapajós Basin, read the @gbif.org article here: www.gbif.org/data-use/48B...

"Gold Reimagined" also reflects on lessons from supporting innovators and calls for greater collaboration to scale these solutions across the Amazon and beyond.

📘 Download the report here: www.conservationxlabs.com/gold-reimagi...

Earlier this year, we published "Gold Reimagined", spotlighting solutions we’ve supported through the #ASMChallenge. These include innovations in restoration and remediation, monitoring systems, and tools to assess the social and environmental impacts of mining.

This isn’t just a local issue.

Artisanal & small-scale gold mining produces nearly 25% of the world’s gold supply.

Yet when unregulated, it fuels mercury pollution, deforestation & biodiversity loss in some of the planet’s richest ecosystems.

Researchers found the extraction destroyed 4,500 hectares of forest, released 20 kg of mercury, and put 370,000 people at risk of mercury poisoning.

Gold here is "not worth its weight in gold."