Filip Hnízdo

Filip is Director at Octophin where he has spent the last ten years making sense of data for dozens of global organisations in the wildlife conservation sector. A snapshot of Octophin’s work includes mapping and calculating freshwater and habitat intersections with global protected areas and forests, storing, analysing and plotting millions of seabird locations and tracks spanning the globe, building a database from 400 years of sturgeon sightings in the UK, mapping remote coral reefs, analysing global and national assessments of wild species use and survival, receiving anti-poaching data over a network of satellite linked sensors, and projecting habitat and environment change a hundred years into the future. A former refugee and newspaper journalist with a Master’s Degree in Philosophy and decades of mentoring young people; ethics and “for-good” are the main driving force in Filip’s actions. This includes Octophin’s work to help the planet and community engagement such as mentoring, t