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Roland Kays

Roland Kays

Sharing personal 'best of' animal pictures is a favorite pastime of many camera trappers. A prolific camera trapper himself, Roland Kays has pulled together more than 600 images collected by 152 researchers from 54 different countries... Citizen Science, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Camera Traps
Alex Rogers

Alex Rogers

The emergence of low-cost development boards, online maker communities sharing designs, and improving availability of services like 3D printing and laser cutting services are making low volume manufacturing of custom devices more...
Paul Glover-Kapfer

Paul Glover-Kapfer

Drones are being explored for a spectrum of applications in conservation that include mapping, biodiversity inventories, antipoaching patrols, wildlife tracking and fire monitoring. However, questions remain about whether drones will... Citizen Science, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Wildlife Crime, Drones
Andy Whitworth

Andy Whitworth

Can camera traps placed in trees offer a way to rapidly inventory secretive arboreal mammals? How does this approach compare with traditional survey techniques? Dr Andy Whitworth and his colleagues set out to answer these questions for the... Camera Traps
Ammie Kalan

Ammie Kalan

More than half of all primate species are endangered, including our closest living relative, the chimpanzee. Could Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) be applied to primates as well as it has been for other taxa? In this case study for the... Human-Wildlife Conflict, Acoustics, AI for Conservation, Sensors
Jenna Bonello

Jenna Bonello

WWF's new thermal infrared camera imaging and human detection software leads to dozens of arrests of wildlife criminals in Africa.  East Africa Community
Alexis Hatto

Alexis Hatto

The Sustainable Palm Oil Transparency Toolkit (SPOTT) is an online platform providing practical information for stakeholders in the palm oil supply chain. Alexis Hatto from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) shows how SPOTT’s... Software and Mobile Apps
Alasdair Davies

Alasdair Davies

Current efforts to track endangered Green Sea Turtles rely on tags that cost upward of $2000 per unit. Alasdair Davies of the Zoological Society of London has been working with Luka Mustafa, a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and founder of ... Biologging
Eric Fegraus

Eric Fegraus

Operating the largest tropical forest camera trap network globally, TEAM Network has accumulated over 2.6 million images. How can large datasets coupled with new techniques for data management and analysis provide unique insights into what... Human-Wildlife Conflict, Wildlife Crime, AI for Conservation, Camera Traps, Data management and processing tools, Software and Mobile Apps
Tom Swinfield

Tom Swinfield

A team of researchers is using UAVs to photograph tropical forest canopy with the aim of developing low-cost methods for measuring forest quality and directing restoration management. In this case study for the Drones Group, Tom Swinfield ... Drones, Software and Mobile Apps
Jana W. E. Jeglinski

Jana W. E. Jeglinski

How do new colonies come about? And why do we observe young colonies to grow much more rapidly than their own production of chicks would allow them to? As Jana W. E. Jeglinski explains, cutting edge developments of biologging technology... Sensors, Biologging
Aditya  Gangadharan

Aditya Gangadharan

Camera traps have revolutionised wildlife research and conservation, enabling scientists to collect photographic evidence of rarely seen and often globally endangered species, with low expense, relative ease, and minimal disturbance to... AI for Conservation, Camera Traps