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.
As we launch our new Sustainable Fishing Challenges group in the WILDLABS community, we are excited to welcome Daniel Steadman, the group manager, to give us an overview of three major areas in which #tech4wildlife...
4 December 2020
Introducing Movebank's Arctic Animal Movement Archive (AAMA), a collection of studies containing animal movement and other animal-borne sensor data from the Arctic and Subarctic. Through this collection of 214 studies ...
17 November 2020
Do you have innovative #tech4wildlife ideas that could save one of the most endangered species on earth from extinction? Apply now to join Vaquita Hack, a hackathon for students and early career conservationists! This...
10 November 2020
We've got exciting news from the Icarus project, a satellite-based animal monitoring system: following a successful test phase this year, the first cross-continental scientific pilot project is set to begin this...
15 September 2020
To celebrate the first Black Mammalogists Week (starting Sunday, September 13th), we talked to four of the amazing Black scientists behind this event! Find out what they had to say about their favorite (and most...
10 September 2020
WILDLABS community member Thomas Gray from Argos has given us a preview of an upcoming grant program to develop open-source tags. Three years ago, Argos worked with the Arribada Initiative to develop an open-source...
17 August 2020
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Protecting elephants from conservation's most pressing issues like poaching and human-wildlife conflict requires big, bold, and innovative solutions. Hackster.io, Smart Parks, Edge Impulse, Microsoft, and several other...
11 August 2020
As we launch our new Sustainable Fishing Challenges group in the WILDLABS community, we are excited to welcome Daniel Steadman, the group manager, to give us an overview of three major areas in which #tech4wildlife...
4 August 2020
In this case study from herpetologist Emily Taylor, we learn about the best methods and gear used to track snakes, lizards, and other reptiles and amphibians via radio-telemetry, and how these techniques have changed...
31 July 2020
What is it like to track endangered species using drones? In this blog post from Wildlife Drones, Dr. Debbie Saunders travels to New Zealand to track the Kākāpō, an extemely rare and elusive bird of which approximately...
8 July 2020
In this three-part WILDLABS feature article series, we take a look at the various technologies used to fight the greatest threat to wild condors, lead poisoning, explore the innovations changing the ways we study and...
2 July 2020
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SMART is excited to showcase the features of their new data collection solution, SMART Mobile! Built around the specific needs of the SMART user community, this streamlined mobile tool allows staff in protected areas to...
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25 April 2016 12:00am
Request for GPS based animal movement data
11 March 2016 8:26am
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!
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