This online community is helping identify the most crucial animal conservation problems and solutions.

The team barely knew each other when they boarded the plane bound for Kuching, Malaysia. They were all engineers, and they had one friend in common, but getting to know each other wasn't their priority.

In the "Make for the Planet" challenge, in front of the International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC5), they had one goal for the next four days: to create, design, and pitch an innovative solution to one of the world's major marine conservation problems, like restoring coral reefs or monitoring global fish stocks.

“The Digital Makerspace represents an opportunity to really push that notion of collaboration and enable and empower people that want to work on difficult, difficult problems...

PAUL BUNJE”