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Interspecies I/O (UK)

Trustees’ Annual Report for the period 06/04/2024 - 05/04/2025 Charity Name: Interspecies I/O Charity registration number: 1195800

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Table of Contents
Objects and Activities	2
Financial Review	4
Structure Governance and Management	4
Reference and Administrative details	4
Declarations	5

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Objects and Activities

Objects (Charitable Purpose)

'For the public benefit, to advance education in, and the science of, interspecies communication by adding to the collective knowledge and understanding of interspecies communication and by promoting research and creating a global network to share and apply research in the subject.'

Activities

To continue to advance education and the science of interspecies communication since formalising, we have delivered an annual program of conferences, monthly lectures. We have further developed the website to include more resources as well as present transcriptions of the monthly online lectures to develop our online presence into a hub of resources, references and citizen science tools to share the history and latest research findings in an effort to further advance and support the field of animal communications.

Achievements and Performance

Our public conference has had a live audience and online viewings totalling over 3300, the membership has reached nearly 7500 with over 20% increase, and our lectures have been seen over 9000 times and counting.

Speaker	Title	Views (q1 26)
César Rodríguez-Garavito	Listening to the more-than-human world	480
Clara Mancini	Why We Need to Design Technology For and With Animals	594
Kirsty Graham	Every Body Communicates! Ape gestures, postures & displays	258
Jonathan Ledgard and Neil Gershenfeld	Money as Memory: The Tehanu Project’s First Steps Toward Interspecies Economic Participation	267
Federico Rossano	Can our pets tell us what they are thinking?	1500
Paco Calvo	Do Plants Talk Back? Only If We Learn to Listen	587

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Gasper Begus	New Patterns in Animal Communication with AI: Ethical and Legal Implications	774
Data Logger Roundtable	Interspecies Data Collection and Interaction: The Data Logger Project	490
David Omer	The Naming of Nonhuman Primates: Vocal Labeling of Others by Marmoset Monkeys	237
Denise Herzing	Decoding Dolphins in the Wild: How diffcult can it be?	434
Gal Zanir	Nature Perspectives: Unlocking Human–Nature Connection with AI	316

Financial Review

Since launch, we are yet to raise any finances. All work is voluntary, and this year we will look to develop a fundraising strategy. We have no funds held in reserve.

Structure Governance and Management

Interspecies I/O is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) with charity registration number 1195800. It is governed by its Articles of Association, last revised in 2021. The Articles of Association set out the charitable purposes for public benefit.

In selecting individuals for appointment as charity trustees, the charity trustees must have regard for the skills, knowledge and experience needed for the effective administration of the CIO.

Reference and Administrative details Charity Name: Interspecies I/O Other name the charity uses: Interspecies Internet Registered charity number: 1195800 Charity’s principal address: 4 St Margarets Grove, London, SE18 7RL, UK

Trustees

Trustees
Name	Start date
VintonCerf	2021
Peter Gabriel	2021
Neil Gershenfeld	2021
Diana Reiss	2021

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Administration

Kate Armstrong, Executive Director

Declarations

The trustees declare that they have approved the trustees’ report above.

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees

Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees	Signed on behalf of the charity’s trustees
Signature
Full Name	Kate Armstrong
Position	Executive Director
Date	5/2/2026

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