Aarhus University
Last month, the PolarBearWatchdog! system developed with @kimhendrikse (Wildlife Security Innovations) detected it’s first wild polar bears at Zackenberg Research Station in Greenland.
The first bear took a walk around the buildings and was quickly scared off with loud yelling and a few shots from a signal pistol.
Some days after another bear was detected in one of our "virtual cameras", basically a crop of another camera to increase the detection range.
It has been so great to see all the hard work invested in putting together and training the system paying off. We will still tweak and refine but we have a solid proof of concept to built upon.
15 September 2025 5:54pm
Greenland has proved an amazing testing ground for us, we refined a lot of techniques there.
I’m planning on using some of those to do some very interesting wolf monitoring in Belgium/The Netherlands if I get a site together and this is looking likely.
I'm particularly interested in further exploring the limits of long distance bear detection, and also applying that to wolves. Way to go Lars.
Kim Hendrikse