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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Congratulations! My first hydromoth was just arrived yesterday and so excited! Looking forward for the update from your project!!! |
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I am working on that too haha. So in my design you load the glue gun with two part Loctite, it has two separate metal rings. Glue and hardener in each ring. Then each ring has a... |
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I'll find you some. Just organising all of our stock of these. |
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Hi everyone, @craig joined last month's Variety Hour to chat about Tagranger, which you can read more about here. A TagRanger®... |
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'Most importantly, we have to make it play a MIDI version of the DoctorWho theme song when you arm the device. That has to be the #1 feature if you ask me!' Seconded! |
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Might very well be so! I highly encourage you to take up the challenge! |
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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.
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10 March 2016 12:00am
Survey on training in animal movement & remote sensing
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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.
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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?
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Think for Tigers challenge by WildCRU at Oxford
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Oh wow. This is perfect for what I do... tracking tigers by their voices alone!
18 May 2016 4:18pm
I tweeted about it!