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Real-time tracking of animal movements is enabling more effective and efficient wildlife monitoring for management, security, and research. As devices get smaller and prices drop, the possibilities for using biologging on a larger scale have grown, and so have the possibilities for increasing customisation to meet specific research needs. Likewise, real-time tracking of illegal wildlife trade, timber, and fish products as they move from source to consumer can shed light on trafficking routes and actors, as well as support enforcement, making tracking gear a powerful tool beyond the field.

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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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I am a science assistant doing research in semi-open nature-reserves, and monitoring grazing livestock as a main managing tool, thereby using tracking devices.

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I'm a conservation biologist working with bats and in some ONG's with other animals.

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Passionate and curious about nature and its diversity, I seek to learn more about conservation, new technologies, and the unknown and infinite environmental world.

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PhD student at the University of Mississippi; research interests include predator/prey dynamics, particularly the landscape of fear in relation to species conservation. Rookie at using arduino

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Marine biologist who studies big things that swim...mostly.

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Biologist I consider myself a data scientist with a passion for nature and with an extensive experience in species distribution modeling, handling large data sets from different sources such as gbif, eBird, xeno-canto, Worldclim, Terraclimate, ocean color e NASA among others. But

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What is your favorite package or software for visualizing animal tracking data?	Hey @lhughey firstly thanks for this interesting and needful discussion,so my appreciation. I don't know much of an expertise, yet it is something relevant to me as I would like...	+8	Biologging, Remote Sensing & GIS	12 hours 31 minutes ago
Cat Island, Bahamas biologger recovery	Hi everyone,A random request to see if any WILDLAB members may live in, or near the Bahamas on the off chance that you...		Biologging	2 days 17 hours ago
Which market-available microphones, accelerometers and GIS sensors for dogs / pets ?	Hi Luigi!It is not the coordinates but the information from the "pulse per second" from the GPS which is used for the time sync.Have a look at		Acoustics, Biologging, Remote Sensing & GIS	3 days 8 hours ago
Query regarding Biologgers for Freshwater crabs	Thank you Thomas, you are absolutely right but when I Mailed them, I didn't get a response about the price , shipment and so on! Thus I arrived to find some loggers in India...		Biologging	1 week ago
Alternative trackers for study of grey parrots movement patterns	Hi Ninying,One benefit of the Pinpoint tags is that they are user-rechargeable, something pretty much unheard of for satellite tags for decades! If you can recover the tags...		Biologging	1 week 1 day ago
Automatic and open-source radio-tracking	Thanks for the information @Sarita , very helpful indeed!! Cheers, Rob		Biologging	2 weeks 2 days ago
Open-source kinetic energy harvesting collar - Kinefox	It will be great if there were different plug-in boards that would allow the researcher to connect any form of communication: ICARUS, Argos, Iridium, Globalstar, GSM, etc. I think...		Biologging, Open Source Solutions	1 month ago
TWS2023 - get in touch	I'm registered with the TWS2023 app, so feel free to nudge me there as well		Biologging, Remote Sensing & GIS, Software and Mobile Apps	1 month ago
Project Update: Improving satellite ear tag transmitters for Polar Bears	Cheers @Lars_Holst_Hansen , yes, the antenna foam spacer idea certainly helped us a bit. I completely agree though that ruggedness, especially on a polar bear (a bit different...		Biologging, Sensors	1 month 3 weeks ago
What Biologgers are you using?	Hey Stephanie,Thanks a lot! Sorry I missed your message but of course I can ask our users about their experience with sensors!		Biologging, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Marine Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools	1 month 4 weeks ago
Unravelling freshwater turtle activity with an open source, low-cost accelerometer	This was one of my all time favourite Variety Hour talks! @wschan gave us an awesome walk through the open-source low cost acceleratometer...		Biologging, Open Source Solutions, Sensors	2 months ago
Best Temperature/ Humidity Dataloggers	Makes sense if you have the cash...	+8	Biologging, Climate Change, Sensors, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Emerging Tech	2 months 2 weeks ago

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Developing Wild Animal Tracking Systems Using Mataki Technology and UAVs For Use In Conservation

Rachel Kramer

2 February 2016 10:31pm

This fully funded PhD position may be of interest to the community: Developing Wild Animal Tracking Systems Using Mataki Technology and UAVs For Use In...

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WILDLABS Admin

22 December 2015 12:00am

Katherine Chou, Product Lead at Google[x] Labs, sees technology as a way to make the impossible, possible. She explores differences in how wildlife NGOs and the tech sector think and plan, and what the conservation ...

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Think for Tigers challenge by WildCRU at Oxford

Dave Cortright

13 November 2015 7:55pm

I just saw this recently. The text below is copied from their web site. Feel free to register and apply. Think for Tigers aims to find an innovative idea, product or...

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Courtney Dunn

9 December 2015 5:12pm

Oh wow. This is perfect for what I do... tracking tigers by their voices alone!

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