Support Wild Watcher
Help open more windows onto the wild.
Wild Watcher is a small, independent globe of the world’s live nature cameras. It is free, it has no ads, and it is honest about which cameras are working. Support pays for the unglamorous part: finding cameras we’re allowed to show, checking every one of them every three hours, and bringing more of the planet onto the map.
What Wild Watcher is today
A map that checks.
- cameras on the globe
- 420
- cameras on the globe
- countries
- 20
- countries
- between checks of every camera
- 3 h
- between checks of every camera
- ads, third-party trackers or rehosted video
- 0
- ads, third-party trackers or rehosted video
Every camera plays in its operator’s own player. We never host, record or resell anyone’s video, and a camera is shown as working only when a check says so, with the age of that check beside it. How we check
What your support pays for, today
More wildlife you can actually watch.
More live cameras
Finding cameras we are allowed to show: reading each operator’s terms, recording the basis for showing them, and placing every one by hand. It is slow, and it is the reason nothing here is a guess.
Keeping the cameras we have
Streams move, restart and go dark. Re-finding a moved stream, and saying so honestly when a camera is down, is work every single week.
Better infrastructure
The servers, the database and the scheduled job that checks every camera every three hours, plus the record of which cameras actually worked, which only grows if the checks never stop.
Beyond North America
83% of the cameras on the globe are in the United States today. Changing that means finding operators in Africa, Asia and South America, one conversation at a time.
Where we’re going
From a camera to everything around it.
Wild Watcher isn’t meant to stay a directory of webcams. A live camera is the way in: the animal on screen, the habitat it lives in, the place on Earth, the people working to keep it there. Some of that exists. Most of it doesn’t yet, and this says which is which.
TodayStarted
Live cameras
Today420 cameras from 5 providers, every one checked every three hours and played in its operator’s own player.
Wildlife
Started34 animals named by the operators, each with a page of the cameras that may show them. Photos, range and facts come next.
Habitats
StartedEach camera labelled by the kind of place it watches (wild habitat, aquarium, research station), so a reef and a waterhole are never confused.
Places
StartedCameras grouped into the places they watch, across 20 countries. Pages for parks, reserves and regions come next.
Conservation
Started62 organisations behind the cameras and working on the animals in them, by animal and by place, each linked to its own donation page and checked before it is listed. Their projects (recovery efforts, habitat restoration, research), in their own words, come next.
See the organisationsPeople & organisations
StartedEvery camera credits the organisation that runs it and links to them. Where that organisation, or one working on the animals in view, takes donations, the camera links to its own donation page, checked before it is listed. Wild Watcher takes nothing.
Plainly
What support is, and what it isn’t.
It supports Wild Watcher, not a charity.
Wild Watcher is not a registered charity and support is not tax-deductible. It does not fund conservation projects today. If that ever changes, we will say exactly where money goes, and how much.
It never buys a place on the globe.
No camera ranks higher, appears under “Watch now”, or is shown as working because of money. Those come from checks and nothing else.
The cameras belong to their operators.
If there is one camera you love, the most direct support goes to the organisation that runs it. Every camera credits them, and links to them, right under the picture.
Help put more of the living planet in view.
Online support isn’t open yet. We are putting the terms in place before taking anyone’s money. If you, or a company you work for, would like to support Wild Watcher now, write to us and we’ll reply in person.
Write to support@wildwatcher.earthRun a wildlife camera?
Put it on the globe.
If you operate a live camera (a park, a reserve, a research station, an aquarium), we would like to show it, with your terms recorded, your name on it and your own player doing the playing. 188 of the cameras here show wildlife today; yours could be next.
Talk to us about your camera