{"id":91388,"date":"2019-05-29T02:25:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T09:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/hacking-conservation-how-a-tech-start-up-aims-to-save-biodiversity"},"modified":"2019-05-29T02:25:36","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T09:25:36","slug":"hacking-conservation-how-a-tech-start-up-aims-to-save-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/hacking-conservation-how-a-tech-start-up-aims-to-save-biodiversity","title":{"rendered":"Hacking conservation: how a tech start-up aims to save biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hacking-conservation-how-a-tech-start-up-aims-to-save-biodiversity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dehgan hopes that the organization\u2019s prizes and other initiatives will bring innovative solutions to conservation\u2019s deepest problems. Hundreds of people have already been lured in through challenges and engineering programmes such as Make for the Planet \u2014 a multi-day, in-person event \u2014 and an online tech collaboration platform called Digital Makerspace, which matches conservationists with technical talent.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Standard efforts have failed to slow the pace of extinctions, so Conservation X Labs is trying a fresh approach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-019-01678-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dehgan hopes that the organization\u2019s prizes and other initiatives will bring innovative solutions to conservation\u2019s deepest problems. Hundreds of people have already been lured in through challenges and engineering programmes such as Make for the Planet \u2014 a multi-day, in-person event \u2014 and an online tech collaboration platform called Digital Makerspace, which matches conservationists with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,38,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-engineering","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}