Wildlife tracking technologies have already massively advanced our understanding of the natural world, from uncovering previously mysterious migration patterns and key movement corridors to demonstrating the impacts of anthropogenic pressures and climate change. Recent advances in the development of technologies for collecting and transmitting biologging data have unlocked the potential for fine-scale data collection at a near-global scale, which when integrated with remotely sensed environmental data offers an unprecedented biological lens into ecosystem health and environmental change (Jetz et al. 2022).
New technologies on the horizon include small satellites like CubeSats, which are being investigated by NASA, the ICARUS Initiative's satellite system, and a variety of other ventures aiming to improve the coverage, accuracy, and capacity of wildlife tracking data collection. Combined with the increased availability of high-resolution environmental data and analytical developments in movement modeling, these advancements are empowering movement ecologists to ask previously unanswerable or unimaginable questions. It’s clear that this discipline sits at the precipice of major breakthroughs that could revolutionize our understanding of animal movement and the natural world.
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has created a great story map about their recent work on Project Puffin. In this story... |
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Biologging | 5 years 8 months ago | |
The BES Journal of Animal Ecology has an open call for papers for a special Biologging issue in 2019. Deadline for submitting manuscripts... |
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Biologging | 5 years 9 months ago | |
Hi Roland, Thanks for the update - great to hear how many responses you're at and get a hint of the results. Any word on when the survey might be closing? ... |
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Biologging | 5 years 10 months ago | |
This consultancy has been filled. Thank you for your interest. |
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Biologging | 6 years 7 months ago | |
Hi, CLS-Argos is organizing a contest to give-away 2 Argos ARTIC processors to develop an open-source Argos transmitter... |
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Biologging | 6 years 7 months ago | |
Hi Yvan, Glad you have chosen Xerius as from what I have seen their equipment is excellent and I was very impressed with their telemetry knowledge. We have one of their... |
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Biologging | 6 years 7 months ago | |
Hi Claude, If you are looking into cord antennas, the attached paper might be of interest (the authors are all from CNRS, which might be easier for collaborations). ... |
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Biologging | 6 years 7 months ago | |
Hello everyone, we are working on developing low power (e.g. bluetooth) tags for rodents which send and receive individual id's when... |
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Biologging | 6 years 8 months ago | |
EFFECTS ON IMAGE CAPTURE OF SMALL DIFFERENCES IN CAMERA TRAP HEIGHT AND ANGLE The practicalities of field work mean that camera traps... |
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Biologging | 6 years 9 months ago | |
The European Space Agency have an exciting funding opportunity coming up and got in touch with us to ask that we share it with you,... |
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Biologging | 6 years 10 months ago | |
Not been on Wildlabs for a long time but I recommend Eccel Technology in Leicester and even build them into bird rings. We have been using theirs. RSPB have built a data... |
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Biologging | 7 years ago | |
Euan, Thanks for the feedback and I'll be in touch with Blake sometime soon. I'm investigating options for tracking falcons and phascogales. Colin |
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Biologging | 7 years 1 month ago |
How Open Source Technologies Could Dramatically Reduce the Cost of Tagging Green Sea Turtles
27 May 2016 12:00am
Snake telemetry?
18 May 2016 6:52pm
Polar Bear Satellite Telemetry Innovation Workshop - Redesigning Satellite Telemetry Devices for Polar Bears and Beyond
18 May 2016 1:23am
Text Messages from Teenage Gannets
25 April 2016 12:00am
Request for GPS based animal movement data
11 March 2016 8:26am
13 April 2016 4:27pm
Gautam,
You can join ebird.org and make a request to download their data that contains GPS data for birds.
Jason
13 April 2016 4:50pm
There's also movebank, which is a repository fo wildlife tracking information.
Disruptive Technology: Embracing the Transformative Impacts of Software on Society
10 March 2016 12:00am
Survey on training in animal movement & remote sensing
9 March 2016 4:36pm
Comparing Geolocator and High-Precision GPS Data
9 March 2016 12:00am
15th International Elephant & Rhino Conservation and Research Symposium
4 March 2016 12:00am
GPS carrying vultures are being used to detect illegal dumps in Peru
22 February 2016 4:28pm
2 March 2016 7:27am
The police have tried to use New World Vultures to find dead bodies in Europe. The success was some what limited but not the fault of the birds.
This does open up a whole area of questions about the use of birds and some of the Unforeseen consequences. The latest amazingly stupid idea of using Eagles to bring down drones that was/is being considered by the British police after the Dutch police showed a video of a Juvenile Bald Eagle doing the same. The vultures that are now being deliberately killed in Africa because naturally they are giving away the location of a poached elephant or Rhino. The poor Griffon Vultures that keep being arrested as spies in the middle east as they have rings that have come from Israel on there legs.
There are quite often side effects to these uses of birds that are unforeseen at the out set but usually end up cost the animal involved.
Help needed engineering solar/battery system for tracking collar
23 November 2015 6:41pm
9 February 2016 1:43pm
Dave - Echoing @mygshah - Here is a Mongabay article highlighting Henrik's work.
9 February 2016 10:19pm
This sounds very relevant. I'll pass along to my colleagues. Thanks for sharing, @jprobert and @mygshah !
23 February 2016 7:24pm
@Dave any updates on this project?
Biotelemetry Symposium, May 2016, Belgium
4 February 2016 10:16am
Developing Wild Animal Tracking Systems Using Mataki Technology and UAVs For Use In Conservation
2 February 2016 10:31pm
'Monitoring Wildlife' Issue from J. Applied Ecology. Methods in EE and J. Animal Ecology
22 January 2016 2:44pm
Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge: Winners Announced!
22 January 2016 12:00am
Mobile reporting for rapid wildlife health response
23 December 2015 5:03pm
Big Data and Conservation: Deluge or Drought?
22 December 2015 12:00am
Achieving Moonshots: Advancing Humankind and Preserving Nature
22 December 2015 12:00am
Think for Tigers challenge by WildCRU at Oxford
13 November 2015 7:55pm
9 December 2015 5:12pm
Oh wow. This is perfect for what I do... tracking tigers by their voices alone!
18 May 2016 4:18pm
I tweeted about it!