As part of CAMPA-Dugong Project, a training workshop on 'Machine Learning applications and open access for biodiversity conservation: Examples and details including climate change predictions' by professor Falk Huettmann from the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska was organised on the 29th and 30th December 2016. The workshop was attended by 35 researchers and it dealt with hands-on training on various aspects like data mining, bagging, boosting, etc. The workshop also covered the usage of data mining tools and open source software like R and QGIS as well as proprietary data mining software like Random Forest, CART, Tree Net, etc. for Predictive GIS Modelling, Web-based Wildlife Databases and Metadata, Spatial Aspects of Population Viability Analysis (PVA), and Landscape Scenarios of Wildlife Habitat, etc. The workshop was concluded with fruitful discussions on importance of machine learning tools in different aspects of ecology and conservation (Contact Mr Anant Pande: anant [at] wii [dot] gov [dot] in).