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					<title>To save Europe’s raptors, conservationists say, look to West Africa</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/to-save-europes-raptors-conservationists-say-look-to-west-africa/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/to-save-europes-raptors-conservationists-say-look-to-west-africa/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Sep 2026 06:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Europe, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Migration, Monitoring, Raptors, Research, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2020, a juvenile osprey was fatally shot in Ghana. The bird, one of hundreds of raptors killed in similar circumstances across West Africa every year, had been fitted with a leg ring by the British Trust for Ornithology in Scotland the previous year. Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) were locally extirpated in Scotland in the early [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2020, a juvenile osprey was fatally shot in Ghana. The bird, one of hundreds of raptors killed in similar circumstances across West Africa every year, had been fitted with a leg ring by the British Trust for Ornithology in Scotland the previous year. Ospreys (Pandion haliaetus) were locally extirpated in Scotland in the early 1900s due to persecution, and the bird killed in Ghana was part of a population reintroduced to that part of the U.K. beginning in the 1990s. Tim Mackrill, an osprey expert and director of the Scotland-based Roy Dennis Wildlife Foundation, said the bird’s death points to the need for a conservation approach that spans migratory birds’ entire habitat. “If you&#8217;re not thinking of the whole flyway of migratory routes, connectivity, and then where the birds are actually wintering, then conservation efforts for that species are really not sufficient.” Many raptor species, such as ospreys, return to the same wintering site year after year. “They are literally faithful to the same tree, whether it&#8217;s in Ghana, whether it&#8217;s in Guinea, or whether it&#8217;s in Gambia,” Mackrill said. Raptors such as ospreys travel in large numbers from Europe to West Africa during the Northern Hemisphere winter. Image by Eileen Fonferko via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0) Millions of birds travel from Europe to Africa each year, spending the Northern Hemisphere’s coldest months in warmer climates far to the south. “People put a huge amount of effort into restoring raptors and protecting them in Europe, and that is a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/to-save-europes-raptors-conservationists-say-look-to-west-africa/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-329065</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Reconnecting the skies: Linking flyways for migratory seabirds across continents</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/reconnecting-the-skies-linking-flyways-for-migratory-seabirds-across-continents/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Aug 2026 13:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Birds, Bycatch, Conservation, data, Environment, Fishing, Habitat, Marine Conservation, Marine Protected Areas, Migration, Monitoring, Oceans, Research, Seabirds, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arctic terns make the longest migration of any creature on Earth, with some Sterna paradisaea clocking more than 80,000 kilometers (49,709 miles) a year, flying from the Southern Ocean to their breeding grounds in the Arctic — and back. For a tiny bird, weighing less than an iPhone, it&#8217;s an astounding feat. South polar skuas [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arctic terns make the longest migration of any creature on Earth, with some Sterna paradisaea clocking more than 80,000 kilometers (49,709 miles) a year, flying from the Southern Ocean to their breeding grounds in the Arctic — and back. For a tiny bird, weighing less than an iPhone, it&#8217;s an astounding feat. South polar skuas (Stercorarius maccormicki) trace a similar figure eight around the Atlantic Ocean as they move between breeding colonies on Antarctic islands and the Arctic. In the Southern Ocean, grey-headed albatross (Thalassarche chrysostoma) breed on South Georgia Island. During the rest of the year, they fly a circle around Antarctica, covering roughly 22,000 km (13,670 mi) in as little as 46 days. The journeys of these and other migratory pelagic seabirds are almost beyond comprehension, and largely unseen. But with advances in tracking, researchers have realized seabirds fly broadly predictable paths over the open ocean. Last year, researchers used tracking data to identify six marine flyways that cross the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Southern oceans and touch the waters of 56 countries. A team of nearly a hundred were involved, led by researchers from the nonprofit BirdLife International, and their findings were published in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography. Seabirds are the most at-risk birds, with more than 30% globally threatened. For migrants, life on the wing is especially perilous. They face myriad threats across multiple jurisdictions in national waters and on the high seas, at their breeding colonies, at stopovers during migration and on the open&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/reconnecting-the-skies-linking-flyways-for-migratory-seabirds-across-continents/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-326785</doi>				</item>
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					<title>From radar blobs to bird species, AI helps transform migration tracking</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/from-radar-blobs-to-bird-species-ai-helps-transform-migration-tracking/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Aug 2026 16:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Migration, Monitoring, Research, Software, Species, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[How can we identify specific bird species as they undertake their annual migrations? In the U.S., scientists have long relied on weather radar data to track flocks of birds migrating across the country. But that came with a caveat: the birds appeared as blobs on the radar, much like dark clouds. They couldn’t tell what [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[How can we identify specific bird species as they undertake their annual migrations? In the U.S., scientists have long relied on weather radar data to track flocks of birds migrating across the country. But that came with a caveat: the birds appeared as blobs on the radar, much like dark clouds. They couldn’t tell what species of birds they were looking at. A new tool is helping scientists and conservationists bridge this gap. BirdFlow combines citizen science observations with weather data and artificial intelligence technology to help scientists detect specific species and predict their migration routes. Two studies published in the journals Global Ecology and Biogeography and Movement Ecology describe how BirdFlow can distinguish between species that are migrating across North America. The tool was developed as a collaboration between Cornell University, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. “Let’s say we want to track Wilson’s warbler that winters in Alaska,” Yuting Deng, a co-author on both studies and postdoctoral researcher at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, told Mongabay in a video interview. “Where exactly do they go? Do the eastern and western populations have similar migration timing? What routes are they taking? That’s where BirdFlow comes in.” Knowing which bird species are migrating where is critical for several reasons. For one, without being able to distinguish individual species, scientists can’t tell when and where a threatened species might be moving. The data are also useful for aviation managers, who would want to track larger birds that&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/from-radar-blobs-to-bird-species-ai-helps-transform-migration-tracking/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-325488</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Telling one guiña from another: It’s all about the angle</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/telling-one-guina-from-another-its-all-about-the-angle/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Jun 2026 11:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Chile, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, Cats, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Monitoring, Research, Small Cats, Species, Surveying, Threatened species, Tracking, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Guiña are small-forest-dwelling felids found in Chile and Argentina that are distinguished only by small, subtle black dots, making it difficult to tell one cat from another. A change in camera trap angle could open the door to a better understanding of their populations, with important conservation implications, a recent study says. Normally, researchers place camera [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Guiña are small-forest-dwelling felids found in Chile and Argentina that are distinguished only by small, subtle black dots, making it difficult to tell one cat from another. A change in camera trap angle could open the door to a better understanding of their populations, with important conservation implications, a recent study says. Normally, researchers place camera traps at ground level to snap pictures of cats as they walk by. But telling one guiña (Leopardus guigna) from another from that angle proved incredibly challenging. “One of the fundamental questions in ecology is always how many individuals are there or what are the densities,” Nicholas Galvez, an associate professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, told Mongabay in an interview. “Sometimes that sounds like a very easy question, but it&#8217;s actually really difficult to answer in the field, especially with a species so small and cryptic.” To solve that problem, Galvez and his team switched their cameras to point downward, in a “zenith” position, attaching them to tree branches and poles in a temperate forest in Chile&#8217;s Reñihué Valley, in northern Patagonia. That switch enabled the scientists to identify 12 individuals based on their unique markings on their backs. The findings were published in the journal Oryx. Ilaria Agostini, a researcher with Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council, said it’s exciting research. “For the first time, it seems feasible to identify individuals in this very subtly marked cat,” she said in a video interview. When using camera traps for her own&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/telling-one-guina-from-another-its-all-about-the-angle/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-321977</doi>				</item>
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					<title>To improve its floundering fisheries, Kenya boosts data collection on artisanal fleet</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/to-improve-its-floundering-fisheries-kenya-boosts-data-collection-on-artisanal-fleet/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Jun 2026 14:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Anthony Langat]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Kenya]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, data, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Fishing, Governance, Marine, Marine Animals, Monitoring, Oceans, Overfishing, Solutions, Technology, Tracking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[MTWAPA, Kenya — On a mid-morning in March, Mohamed Mwazigona, 58, had just landed a measly catch on the town beach in Mtwapa on Kenya’s north coast. His crew was preparing the boat for a second trip into the sea with hopes of better luck. As traders started trickling in to buy fish, Mwazigona sat [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MTWAPA, Kenya — On a mid-morning in March, Mohamed Mwazigona, 58, had just landed a measly catch on the town beach in Mtwapa on Kenya’s north coast. His crew was preparing the boat for a second trip into the sea with hopes of better luck. As traders started trickling in to buy fish, Mwazigona sat on a broken upturned boat staring at the horizon beyond the sea. His morning trip had netted only 2 kilograms (4.4 pounds) of fish. He worried that his catches had decreased a lot in recent years. “The number of fishermen has gone up; we have become too many,” he said. That’s the reason he left his village of Shariani, 40 kilometers (25 miles) to the north, to base his fishing in Mtwapa, which he felt had fewer fishers and better access to markets. In Kenya, local beach management units (BMUs), like the Mtwapa BMU that Mwazigona belongs to, have a legal mandate to support collection of fisheries data for submission to the government: mainly the type of fish its members catch and the weight. These data are meant to inform government decision-making about small-scale fisheries so it can help reverse the competition for dwindling fish stocks that Mwazigona and his colleagues are experiencing. They are also meant to help fishers themselves make decisions on where and when to fish. However, the BMUs’ small-scale fisheries data have been inaccurate and inaccessible to stakeholders. To address this problem and improve the sustainability of Kenya’s small-scale fisheries, WorldFish,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/to-improve-its-floundering-fisheries-kenya-boosts-data-collection-on-artisanal-fleet/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-321034</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Electric fences help farmers and elephants coexist in Zambian borderlands</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/electric-fences-help-farmers-and-elephants-coexist-in-zambian-borderlands/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 May 2026 10:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Southern Africa, and Zambia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conflict, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Fences, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Mammals, Protected Areas, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[LUNDAZI, Zambia — “It’s not possible [to coexist with elephants], because they are animals and we are human beings — they should have their own home,” says Esnart Banda, a Zambian farmer whose maize and tobacco fields lie 5 meters, just 16 feet, from the boundary of Malawi’s Kasungu National Park. Just two thin strands [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[LUNDAZI, Zambia — “It’s not possible [to coexist with elephants], because they are animals and we are human beings — they should have their own home,” says Esnart Banda, a Zambian farmer whose maize and tobacco fields lie 5 meters, just 16 feet, from the boundary of Malawi’s Kasungu National Park. Just two thin strands of orange, plastic-coated wire now stand between Banda’s crops and Kasungu’s elephants. The wires, known as polywire fencing and supplied by conservation group IFAW and Zambia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW), are strung taut between straight, evenly cut fence poles that Banda and her helpers erected. To the uninitiated, they hardly seem capable of stopping a herd of elephants. But Banda herself attests to their effectiveness. “It’s strong, it helps us,” she tells Mongabay. “If somebody touches it, they fall.” Farmer Harry Msimuko stands in front of wires that carry a powerful electric charge, protecting his own crops and those of 19 other households from elephants from nearby Kasungu National Park. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay. On a neighboring farm, within sight of the bare granite faces of Malawi’s Miwonde Hills, Harry Msimuko shows off the “power house” in his living room: two solar-powered batteries with wiring snaking up the wall. When he flicks a switch at night, pulses of electricity run along 6 kilometers (nearly 4 miles) of fencing enclosing not only his crops but those of 19 neighbors. The only recent conflict, he says, has been with hyenas crossing from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/electric-fences-help-farmers-and-elephants-coexist-in-zambian-borderlands/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Elephants return to Mount Elgon side of Uganda after four decades</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/elephants-return-to-mount-elgon-side-of-uganda-after-four-decades/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 May 2026 10:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Benjamin Jumbe]]>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, Kenya, and Uganda]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Fences, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Infrastructure, Mammals, Migration, Protected Areas, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[According to monitoring with tracking collars by the Mount Elgon Foundation (MEF), last year at least 60 elephants crossed from Kenya into the Ugandan side of Mount Elgon, a vast volcanic mountain that straddles the border, returning to a part of their natural range where they’ve not been seen for over 40 years. MEF funds [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[According to monitoring with tracking collars by the Mount Elgon Foundation (MEF), last year at least 60 elephants crossed from Kenya into the Ugandan side of Mount Elgon, a vast volcanic mountain that straddles the border, returning to a part of their natural range where they’ve not been seen for over 40 years. MEF funds community projects aimed at reducing forest degradation and raising awareness of environmental issues, as well as a team of 18 community scouts on the Kenyan side of the mountain, part of the East African Wild Life Society’s Mount Elgon Elephant Project. MEF’s chair, Chris Powles, told Mongabay that back in 2022, scouts tracked four elephants crossing the Suam river, which marks the border between the two countries. Drone footage of elephants on the Ugandan side of Mount Elgon. Image courtesy of UWA. In an email interview, Powles said a number of factors could explain the elephants’ return, though it’s impossible to say for certain what’s prompted them to reestablish themselves. “[These] include the growth of the elephant population on the Kenya side, the increasing human pressure on the Kenya side, the relative safety for them on the Uganda side as it is all national park (unlike in Kenya),” he wrote. “And, maybe, the elephants alive from the time when others of them were killed in Uganda have now died naturally and so their memory of what happened in Uganda may have passed.” In the late 1970s and 80s, elephants in Uganda and other parts of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/elephants-return-to-mount-elgon-side-of-uganda-after-four-decades/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Radio and satellite alerts help Zambian farmers live with dangerous wildlife</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/radio-and-satellite-alerts-help-zambian-farmers-live-with-dangerous-wildlife/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 May 2026 18:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Southern Africa, and Zambia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Fences, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Infrastructure, Mammals, Migration, Protected Areas, Tracking, Wildlife, Wildlife Corridors, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[LUNDAZI, Zambia – In a yellow, single-story building in the eastern Zambian town of Lundazi, a radio presenter fields numerous calls from anxious villagers on nearby farms. Sitting across from presenter Joseph Mwale in the air-conditioned studio are two officials from Zambia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW). One of them, Senior Ranger Mathews [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[LUNDAZI, Zambia – In a yellow, single-story building in the eastern Zambian town of Lundazi, a radio presenter fields numerous calls from anxious villagers on nearby farms. Sitting across from presenter Joseph Mwale in the air-conditioned studio are two officials from Zambia’s Department of National Parks and Wildlife (DNPW). One of them, Senior Ranger Mathews Mumbi, tells listeners: “Avoid going out at night to avoid the ngozi (accidental harm).” Many of the villagers tuning in to the Thursday evening program live in a transfrontier conservation area (TFCA) straddling eastern Zambia and neighboring Malawi: dangerous encounters with wild animals is a way of life here. The twice-weekly radio show on Chikaya FM, a community radio station, is sponsored by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), which works with the DNPW to promote human-wildlife coexistence across three Zambian farming districts – Lundazi, Lumezi and Chipangali — home to around half a million people. In theory, the TFCA links Kasungu with Zambia’s Lukusuzi and Luambe National Parks, but to reach the Zambian parks, elephants and other wild animals must cross farmland and roads and navigate past schools and homesteads. Zambia Department of National Parks and Wildlife&#8217;s Mwizaso Chipeta (left) and Mathews Mumbi field questions from callers about human-wildlife conflict from callers during a radio show on Chikaya FM, while IFAW’s community engagement manager Alstone Mwanza (right) listens in. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay. During a break in the radio show, the station runs an advert with the sound of an elephant&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/radio-and-satellite-alerts-help-zambian-farmers-live-with-dangerous-wildlife/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As elephants return in eastern Zambia, communities adapt to coexistence</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/as-elephants-return-in-eastern-zambia-communities-adapt-to-coexistence/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 May 2026 15:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Southern Africa, and Zambia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Elephants, Endangered Species, Environment, Fences, Habitat, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Infrastructure, Mammals, Migration, Protected Areas, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[LUNDAZI, Zambia — The very first time 23-year-old Edward Kumwenda saw elephants, it was after midnight, and they were breaking into his house. That night, two years ago, Kumwenda was sleeping alone in a small brick-and-thatch cottage at his father’s homestead in eastern Zambia’s Chipangali district, when he heard animals approaching. At first, he thought [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[LUNDAZI, Zambia — The very first time 23-year-old Edward Kumwenda saw elephants, it was after midnight, and they were breaking into his house. That night, two years ago, Kumwenda was sleeping alone in a small brick-and-thatch cottage at his father’s homestead in eastern Zambia’s Chipangali district, when he heard animals approaching. At first, he thought the sound of breaking twigs and rustling grass was caused by cattle, or worse, cattle thieves targeting his family’s livestock. But then the intruders began tugging at the thatch roof. The room shook, part of the brick wall collapsed, and a large trunk pushed through the hole, curling around one of the bags containing some of that year’s maize harvest and lifting it out. “They got the first bag, second bag, third bag, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,” he recalls, sitting on a stool in his family’s bare, swept yard, as the cassia trees drop yellow flowers and relatives gather to hear the story yet again. “That is enough [maize to last] for the whole year, for me,” he says. Kumwenda thought of escaping through an open window, but kept his nerve, staying silent until his sister and brother — alerted by the noise of the herd breaking in — lit a log fire in the yard and drove the animals away. Edward Kumwenda indicates where elephants broke into the house where he was sleeping two years ago and helped themselves to his family’s maize stores. Image by Ryan Truscott for Mongabay. An elephant&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/05/as-elephants-return-in-eastern-zambia-communities-adapt-to-coexistence/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How Southern African farmers &#038; elephants can both adapt to coexist</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/how-southern-african-farmers-elephants-can-both-adapt-to-coexist/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Dec 2025 06:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Namibia, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Elephants, Environment, Fences, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Infrastructure, Mammals, Migration, Research, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildlife Corridors]]>
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							<![CDATA[Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near harvest time, says Agripa Ngorima, who has studied attitudes toward conservation in Simangani. During his fieldwork, he presented residents with two scenarios: one in which elephants provided benefits — such as meat, skins for ornaments or [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Elephants are considered a sacred totem by many in northwestern Zimbabwe, but they also frequently raid villagers’ crops near harvest time, says Agripa Ngorima, who has studied attitudes toward conservation in Simangani. During his fieldwork, he presented residents with two scenarios: one in which elephants provided benefits — such as meat, skins for ornaments or safari-industry jobs — and another in which people only incurred costs, including crop losses, fence damage or injury. Their responses diverged sharply: 88% said they would support elephant culls or translocations if they received no benefits, compared with just 20% if elephants supported their livelihoods, and 92% were unwilling to engage in conservation due to lack of financial gain from elephants. “Any cultural willingness to coexist with elephants is conditional and will be withdrawn if livelihoods are threatened,” Ngorima says. Elephants roam freely from Hwange National Park into bordering communal farming lands. IFAW’s EarthRanger project has tracked the movement of collared elephants, with some ranging more than 200 kms from the protected area and traversing communal land along the way. Image courtesy of Tyson Mayr / IFAW. Learning to live with elephants Since his fieldwork in Simangani in 2018, the government and NGOs have introduced outreach programs, teaching villagers about elephant behavior and promoting the cultivation of red-hot chile peppers — plants the animals can’t abide. Yet the most effective deterrent, physical fencing around fields, remains out of reach for most, leaving the majority of households unprotected. “This implementation gap means the current costs of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/how-southern-african-farmers-elephants-can-both-adapt-to-coexist/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>‘Internet of Animals,’ a unified wildlife tracker, set to resume after hiatus</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/internet-of-animals-a-unified-wildlife-tracker-set-to-resume-after-hiatus/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 Dec 2025 02:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A global system dubbed the “internet of animals,” which tracks wildlife via satellite, is one step closer to becoming a reality. Project ICARUS, an initiative that taps into advances in wireless sensor technology, has resumed operations after a three-year hiatus. In late November, a satellite carrying an ICARUS receiver was launched into space. Short for [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A global system dubbed the “internet of animals,” which tracks wildlife via satellite, is one step closer to becoming a reality. Project ICARUS, an initiative that taps into advances in wireless sensor technology, has resumed operations after a three-year hiatus. In late November, a satellite carrying an ICARUS receiver was launched into space. Short for International Cooperation for Animal Research Using Space, ICARUS aims to create a global network that tracks individual animals fitted with sensors. “It&#8217;s a global collaboration of scientists trying to understand animal movements and the information from animals,” Martin Wikelski, director at the Germany-based Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, who envisioned and leads the project, told Mongabay in a video interview in 2024. The project hinges on tiny, lightweight trackers that scientists around the world have deployed on a wide range of species, from large mammals and sea turtles, to diminutive bats and migratory birds. The trackers measure crucial data including GPS-based location, acceleration, temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude, enabling scientists to track the movements, migrations and behaviors of these animals. Migrating bats Image ©Peter J. Hudson. Tracking tags have been around for years. However, what makes ICARUS stand out is the ability to bring together the tracking of myriad species from around the world under one project. This allows scientists to also observe how animals are interacting with one another and with their environments, giving them access to nuanced and incredibly specific data for wildlife conservation and biodiversity protection purposes. “This is really grasping&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/internet-of-animals-a-unified-wildlife-tracker-set-to-resume-after-hiatus/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Artisanal fishers in Liberia question benefits of new tracking devices from government</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/artisanal-fishers-in-liberia-question-benefits-of-new-tracking-devices-from-government/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Dec 2025 14:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Edward Blamo]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Malavikavyawahare]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Liberia, and West Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Governance, GPS, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, Technology, and Tracking]]>
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							<![CDATA[MONROVIA — In Liberia, a country where small-scale fishers number in the tens of thousands, fishers go missing at sea every year. Some, like a crew of four rescued 54 nautical miles (100 kilometers) off the coast in 2020, are fortunate. The Liberia Artisanal Fishermen Association (LAFA), an advocacy group, has, over the years, petitioned [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[MONROVIA — In Liberia, a country where small-scale fishers number in the tens of thousands, fishers go missing at sea every year. Some, like a crew of four rescued 54 nautical miles (100 kilometers) off the coast in 2020, are fortunate. The Liberia Artisanal Fishermen Association (LAFA), an advocacy group, has, over the years, petitioned the government to improve the safety of these fishers, most of whom use traditional dugout canoes. Some of the boats have outboard motors. But until recently, almost none had a way to broadcast their location. Earlier this year, the campaign received a boost when the Liberian government procured 400 automatic identification system (AIS) transponders from South Africa. The solar-powered devices were distributed to artisanal fishermen in the counties of Grand Cape Mount, Grand Bassa, Margibi and Montserrado. AIS devices transmit a vessel’s position and its speed via radio signals. These can be picked up by other vessels and also by receivers located on land. The system was developed to aid navigation at sea. But in recent years, AIS has also been used to map fishing effort and activity. It’s deployed mostly by larger vessels (longer than 24 meters, or 79 feet), and less so by smaller boats used by artisanal fishers. While officials and some fishermen consider the initiative in Liberia a step in the right direction, many of the fishers whom Mongabay spoke to in Grand Cape Mount and Margibi said they’re hesitant to install the devices. Their primary complaint is that the AIS&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/artisanal-fishers-in-liberia-question-benefits-of-new-tracking-devices-from-government/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Corridors, not culls, offer solution to Southern Africa’s growing elephant population</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/corridors-not-culls-offer-solution-to-southern-africas-growing-elephant-population/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Dec 2025 11:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ryan Truscott]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Namibia, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Elephants, Environment, Fences, Habitat Loss, Human-wildlife Conflict, Infrastructure, Mammals, Migration, Research, Tracking, Wildlife, Wildlife Corridors, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 kilometers, or 7,500 miles — three times the distance between New York and Los Angeles. In that time, Z16 has traversed four countries and visited six national parks. In Southern Africa overall, populations of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since being collared in Zambia two years ago, a young bull elephant known to researchers as Z16 has walked nearly 12,000 kilometers, or 7,500 miles — three times the distance between New York and Los Angeles. In that time, Z16 has traversed four countries and visited six national parks. In Southern Africa overall, populations of elephants are stable, or even growing, but space for them is not. This pressure has increased human-elephant conflict and fueled calls from some for elephant culls. Z16’s epic trek underscores a quieter, more hopeful solution to the region’s so-called “elephant problem”: keeping the routes that connect fragmented ranges open through the creation and protection of wildlife corridors. Situated in the northwestern corner of the Sobbe Wildlife Conservancy, in Namibia’s long, narrow Zambezi region, the Sobbe Corridor provides a link for elephants moving between Botswana, Zambia and Angola. When environmental anthropologist Emilie Köhler began her fieldwork in Sobbe in January 2023, she saw the crooked boughs of trees inside the corridor shaped by countless generations of African savanna elephants (Loxodonta africana) rubbing their backs as they passed through. “They come into [Namibia’s] Mudumu National Park, then they use the Sobbe Corridor to move into the Zambezi State Forest [also inside Namibia] and then go into Zambia and Angola,” she says. “It connects different protected areas, but also links movements between different countries, which makes it extremely important.” Elephants embark on a daily journey to the Zambezi River from safe havens away from human settlements. Image ©&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/corridors-not-culls-offer-solution-to-southern-africas-growing-elephant-population/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Northern Cameroon’s lions are reproducing, but concerns remain</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/northern-cameroons-lions-are-reproducing-but-concerns-remain/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Sep 2025 15:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Leocadia Bongben]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, and Central Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Cats, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, GPS, Lions, Livestock, Mammals, Monitoring, National Parks, Poaching, Species, Tracking, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Real-time monitoring has captured images of lionesses with cubs in Cameroon’s Bouba Ndjida National Park, but conservationists warn human pressure makes it unlikely all the cubs will reach adulthood. There are now an estimated 60-80 lions in the 220,000-hectare (544,000-acre) park in the country’s far north. “All collared lionesses have had cubs, signaling successful reproduction,” [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Real-time monitoring has captured images of lionesses with cubs in Cameroon’s Bouba Ndjida National Park, but conservationists warn human pressure makes it unlikely all the cubs will reach adulthood. There are now an estimated 60-80 lions in the 220,000-hectare (544,000-acre) park in the country’s far north. “All collared lionesses have had cubs, signaling successful reproduction,” Matthieu Finiels, deputy director of the northern Cameroon landscape for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), told Mongabay. In August 2024, Cameroonian biologists and rangers from WCS and the Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife (MINFOF) fitted seven lions in the park with GPS collars. A year earlier, in 2023, local conservation NGO BEDD had also collared three lions, bringing the total to 10. The collars ping the lions’ locations four times a day via satellite, enabling conservationists to monitor the big cats’ movements. &#8220;We can proactively prioritize those areas for patrols, ensuring protection from poachers,&#8221; Paul Bour, WCS&#8217;s landscape director said in a press release after the collaring. Bour helps the Cameroonian government plan and prepare antipoaching patrols. Despite the birth of cubs, there are still concerns about their survival. Paul Funston, director of the NGO African Lion Conservation, who assisted in the collaring, warned of the likelihood that not all the cubs would survive to adulthood. Now known as Miss Bouba for her striking beauty, she is the fifth lion collared in Bouba Ndjida National Park. Image by Daniel Djekda/WCS. “It is difficult for lionesses to raise cubs,” he told Mongabay. “When the young lions&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/northern-cameroons-lions-are-reproducing-but-concerns-remain/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>To track a unicorn: Laos team goes all out to find the last saolas</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/to-track-a-unicorn-laos-team-goes-all-out-to-find-the-last-saolas/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Sep 2025 04:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Laos, Southeast Asia, and Vietnam]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Cattle, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Critically Endangered Species, DNA, Environment, Forests, Green, Innovation, Mammals, Snares, Tracking, Ungulates, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Few people have the opportunity to meet near-mythical beasts in real life — but Rob Timmins has. He’s one of the few biologists ever to spend time with a saola, a wild ox once known as the “Asian unicorn,” and arguably the most threatened large mammal on the planet. First described by science in 1993, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Few people have the opportunity to meet near-mythical beasts in real life — but Rob Timmins has. He’s one of the few biologists ever to spend time with a saola, a wild ox once known as the “Asian unicorn,” and arguably the most threatened large mammal on the planet. First described by science in 1993, the species, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis, has only ever been recorded alive a handful of times: five camera-trap detections, and a few individuals briefly held in captivity. Timmins met one of those captive animals, a female named Martha, in 1996 after she was captured by villagers in Laos and taken to a nearby facility. She survived there only a few weeks before passing away. Martha was “truly beautiful amidst all the sadness of her captivity,” says Timmins, who is now chief technical adviser of the Saola Foundation for Annamite Mountain Conservation. “In behavior, [she] was very unlike any other ungulate I’d ever seen. Very docile, seemingly very calm.” The saola’s peaceful nature has in fact earned it a nickname in a Lao dialect: Saat Supphap, which means “polite animal.” The species is considered so evolutionarily distinct it’s placed in a genus of its own. Sporting a hefty pair of dark horns, a sloping back and bold flashes of white across the face, saolas resemble antelopes, yet their closest living relatives are wild cattle like gaur and buffalo. Yet the world is on the cusp of losing this gentle, one-of-a-kind mammal forever, before scientists have even begun to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/to-track-a-unicorn-laos-team-goes-all-out-to-find-the-last-saolas/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Long-lost white shark tag traces remarkable journey from South Africa to SE Asia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/long-lost-white-shark-tag-traces-remarkable-journey-from-south-africa-to-se-asia/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Sep 2025 11:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Miriam Bahagijo]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Dilrukshi Handunnetti]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indian Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, data, Ecosystems, Elasmobranchs, Endangered Species, Environment, Fish, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Migration, Oceans, Remote Sensing, Research, Sharks, Tracking, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In May 2012, a satellite transmitter was attached to a subadult female white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) by OCEARCH as part of its shark expeditions in Gansbaai, a fishing town in Western Cape, South Africa. Twelve years and 37,178 kilometers (23,101 miles) later, a fisherman in Indonesia handed over the tag to Project Hiu, a local [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In May 2012, a satellite transmitter was attached to a subadult female white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) by OCEARCH as part of its shark expeditions in Gansbaai, a fishing town in Western Cape, South Africa. Twelve years and 37,178 kilometers (23,101 miles) later, a fisherman in Indonesia handed over the tag to Project Hiu, a local NGO. The tag belonged to a shark named Alisha, whose long journey had ended in 2016 in the longline gear of the fisherman in East Lombok, where she was originally misidentified as a mako shark (Isurus paucus). In 2024, when the fisher finally handed over the tag, it triggered an international effort to recover and identify the tag, providing new information for conservationists about the distance a shark can travel. Alisha’s journey also became the first documented movement of a white shark between South Africa and Southeast Asia, which was recorded in this paper published in June. “You&#8217;ve never really seen a shark displaced so far,” said Dylan Irion, the corresponding author of the paper and co-founder of Cape RADD, noting that Alisha traveled a lot farther than another female shark called P12 that made a similar journey from South Africa to Australia in 2004, completing a round-trip migration of more than 20,000 km (12,400 mi). Irion told Mongabay that Alisha’s journey was remarkable not just for the distance she traveled, but also because she passed through different habitats, from the cold-temperate waters off South Africa to the warm tropical waters in Mozambique, Madagascar and&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/long-lost-white-shark-tag-traces-remarkable-journey-from-south-africa-to-se-asia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Radio tags help reveal the secret lives of tiger salamanders</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/radio-tags-help-reveal-the-secret-lives-of-tiger-salamanders/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 May 2025 09:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[New York, North America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Research, Salamanders, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Where are the salamanders hanging out? Answering that question has been Jake Kushner’s mission — especially in the face of a proposed project by an energy company that will lay a transmission line right through areas where these amphibians are thought to move. “The salamanders are only documented using a small area around vernal pools [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Where are the salamanders hanging out? Answering that question has been Jake Kushner’s mission — especially in the face of a proposed project by an energy company that will lay a transmission line right through areas where these amphibians are thought to move. “The salamanders are only documented using a small area around vernal pools after they&#8217;re done breeding,” Kushner, reptile and amphibian specialist at South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center in New York, told Mongabay in a video interview. “But we believe these salamanders use much larger areas around the ponds.” For want of concrete data to back up his observation, Kushner turned to radio telemetry. Now, just a year and a half into his fieldwork, Kushner said he’s been surprised by how much he’s discovered about the animals’ movements in Long Pond Green Belt Nature Reserve in the Hamptons in New York. Tiger salamanders (Ambystoma tigrinum) are what’s known as an indicator species, one whose presence indicates how the ecosystem is faring. Since they breathe through their skin, even low levels of pollution can impact their health. “The declines or booms in their populations can tell us a lot about the health of the environment because they&#8217;re very sensitive to things like pollution,” Kushner said. The salamanders spend most of their time in burrows underground. They emerge during the spring season and move to vernal pools — depressions in the ground that fill up with rainwater and melted snow for part of the year — where they&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/05/radio-tags-help-reveal-the-secret-lives-of-tiger-salamanders/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-299180</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Vital Mekong fish corridors tracked for first time, but funding cuts threaten future research</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/vital-mekong-fish-corridors-tracked-for-first-time-but-funding-cuts-threaten-future-research/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Apr 2025 20:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Anton L. Delgado]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Food systems]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Mekong Basin, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Dams, Ecosystems, Environment, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Freshwater, Funding, Hydroelectric Power, Research, Rivers, and Tracking]]>
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							<![CDATA[The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught fish from a dozen species and implanted them with small electric transmitters before releasing them back into the river. A network of receivers allowed the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught fish from a dozen species and implanted them with small electric transmitters before releasing them back into the river. A network of receivers allowed the researchers to follow the migration movements of 81 of these tagged fish during both the dry and wet seasons. The findings, published in a recent study, provide empirical data reinforcing local ecological knowledge that underlines the importance of a free-flowing Mekong. With dozens of dams built, planned and proposed across the basin, researchers say the exact data points detailing the Mekong’s massive fish migration underline the risks of cutting off these vital migratory corridors with hydropower. “I hope this information gives pause to developers or governments working on those dams,” study lead author Jackman Eschenroeder, from U.S.-based environmental consultancy FISHBIO, told Mongabay. “We’re trying to build a road map for where these fish are going with our acoustic telemetry network but it gives us just a glimpse into what these fish are doing.” Researchers perform a maintenance check on an acoustic receiver in the Mekong River. Image courtesy of FISHBIO. This study is the first attempt to use acoustic telemetry at this scale in the Mekong Basin. Eschenroeder referred to the study as a “pilot effort” that highlights “the need to do more studies like this to improve the resolution of our knowledge.” But continued&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/vital-mekong-fish-corridors-tracked-for-first-time-but-funding-cuts-threaten-future-research/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-297793</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Satellite ‘backpacks’ help keep track of parrot migration in Mexico</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/satellite-backpacks-help-keep-track-of-parrot-migration-in-mexico/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/satellite-backpacks-help-keep-track-of-parrot-migration-in-mexico/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>16 Jan 2025 12:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Mexico and North America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Birds, Conservation, Conservation Technology, data, Endangered Species, Environment, Migration, Parrots, Remote Sensing, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[When James Sheppard set out to deploy tiny backpacks fitted with satellite transmitters to track endangered thick-billed parrots in 2019, doubts abounded. His colleagues were concerned it wasn’t going to work. A vendor he worked with refused to sell him the transmitters, worried it might be a futile attempt. The concerns weren’t unfounded. Thick-billed parrots [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When James Sheppard set out to deploy tiny backpacks fitted with satellite transmitters to track endangered thick-billed parrots in 2019, doubts abounded. His colleagues were concerned it wasn’t going to work. A vendor he worked with refused to sell him the transmitters, worried it might be a futile attempt. The concerns weren’t unfounded. Thick-billed parrots (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) are named after their large and sturdy beaks that they use to break open pine cones and nut shells. “They have a can opener for a face,” Sheppard, a scientist in recovery ecology at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance (SDZWA), told Mongabay in a video interview. “We thought they would just rip it [the transmitter] straight off.” However, Sheppard saw an opportunity when a lone bird was brought into SDZWA from another facility. While the bird was under quarantine, he put a backpack on it. Much to his surprise, the bird “ignored it and went on to feed on some pine nuts,” he said. “It stayed on for several weeks.” Four years on, the team at SDZWA along with its partners at Mexican conservation NGO Organización Vida Silvestre (OVIS) have deployed the backpacks on 57 thick-billed parrots. So far, the technology has yielded more than 71,000 data points that have helped the team understand the birds’ migratory patterns and identify habitats that are crucial for protection. “It opened up a whole new world of good decision-making for us,” Ernesto Enkerlin-Hoeflich, scientific director at OVIS, told Mongabay in a video interview. “We were able&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/satellite-backpacks-help-keep-track-of-parrot-migration-in-mexico/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Agribusiness giant Olam gets head start on EUDR; its suppliers, not so much</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/agribusiness-giant-olam-gets-head-start-on-eudr-its-suppliers-not-so-much/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Dec 2024 14:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Aimee Gabay]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Food systems]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, European Union, Honduras, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Cacao, Coffee, Commodity agriculture, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Farming, Food, Food Industry, Supply Chain, Sustainability, and Tracking]]>
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							<![CDATA[A massive gap is forming in the race to comply with the European Union’s antideforestation rules, as smallholder farmers and suppliers struggle to meet the new requirements while agribusiness giants express confidence about being ready in time. Olam Agri and ofi, both subsidiaries of Singapore-headquartered food and agribusiness conglomerate Olam Group, told Mongabay they’re using [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A massive gap is forming in the race to comply with the European Union’s antideforestation rules, as smallholder farmers and suppliers struggle to meet the new requirements while agribusiness giants express confidence about being ready in time. Olam Agri and ofi, both subsidiaries of Singapore-headquartered food and agribusiness conglomerate Olam Group, told Mongabay they’re using advanced traceability and information systems to get ahead. By contrast, smallholders in countries like Honduras and Indonesia still lack critical information and resources to even begin the compliance process before the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) takes effect. In response to these and similar concerns from trade groups and exporting countries, the EU has agreed to delay the law’s implementation by a year from the initial start date of end-2024.   Coffee is one of the seven commodities subject to the EUDR; the regulation will prohibit imports into the EU market of commodities sourced from land that was deforested after Dec. 31, 2020. Coffee will be heavily impacted by the new regulation: between 2001 and 2015, 1.9 million hectares (4.7 million acres) of forest, an area about half the size of Switzerland, was cleared for coffee cultivation. And in 2023, half of the coffee exported from Honduras was destined for the EU. ofi carrying out agroforestry training. Image courtesy of ofi. Miguel Pon, executive president of the Association of Coffee Exporters of Honduras, told Mongabay by email that he believes “no more than 20 percent of all Honduras [coffee] producers are prepared with the points and polygons&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/agribusiness-giant-olam-gets-head-start-on-eudr-its-suppliers-not-so-much/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Tracking footprints to monitor wildlife: Interview with WildTrack’s Zoe Jewell</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/tracking-footprints-to-monitor-wildlife-interview-with-wildtracks-zoe-jewell/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Nov 2024 10:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Interviews, Monitoring, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Zoe Jewell was working in Zimbabwe in the 1990s when a harsh reality dawned on her. The female black rhinos (Diceros bicornis) she was helping monitor were suffering from a loss in fertility after they were chased to be collared. Later, when she and a colleague brought it up with the local trackers who accompanied [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Zoe Jewell was working in Zimbabwe in the 1990s when a harsh reality dawned on her. The female black rhinos (Diceros bicornis) she was helping monitor were suffering from a loss in fertility after they were chased to be collared. Later, when she and a colleague brought it up with the local trackers who accompanied them, they broke out in laughter. Their advice: ditch the radio collars and track footprints instead. The pair took that advice to heart and got to work. Years, and many trials and experiments, later, they now work to help people and organizations around the world identify animals by using pictures of their footprints. North Carolina-based nonprofit WildTrack has developed tools that measure and analyze footprints of animals to identify the species. They’ve also developed an artificial intelligence model that can identify 17 species, including rhinos, lions (Panthera leo) and leopards (Panthera pardus). “If you look down, there&#8217;s a wealth of information,” Jewell said. “They&#8217;re just waiting to be picked up.” The technology is being used for a wide array of applications. In California, WildTrack is working with the U.S. Forest Service to identify the habitat and breeding range of the weasel-like fisher (Pekania pennanti), carnivorous mammals native to the boreal forests of the U.S. and Canada. In Botswana, they’re focused on identifying the movement patterns of rhinos to protect them from poaching. The technology is also being used to understand human-wildlife conflict in Brazil and other countries in South America. Jewell said her team at&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/11/tracking-footprints-to-monitor-wildlife-interview-with-wildtracks-zoe-jewell/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-289798</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Jumbo collaring effort reveals key elephant movement corridors</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/jumbo-collaring-effort-reveals-key-elephant-movement-corridors/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Sep 2024 12:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Southern Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Elephants, Environment, GPS, Research, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The first time Robin Naidoo mapped GPS data points to track elephant movement in Southern Africa, he was in for a surprise. Across the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA), one of the largest conservation areas in the world, he observed movement patterns and trends never seen before. “It was like a parallel universe that had [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The first time Robin Naidoo mapped GPS data points to track elephant movement in Southern Africa, he was in for a surprise. Across the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA), one of the largest conservation areas in the world, he observed movement patterns and trends never seen before. “It was like a parallel universe that had opened up,” Naidoo, lead scientist of wildlife conservation at the World Wildlife Fund, told Mongabay in a video interview. Unlocking that universe took a mammoth collaboration that involved collaring 300 African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in an area that spans five countries and is home to the largest population of African elephants in the world. The final result is possibly one of the largest databases of GPS-collared elephants. It contains close to 4 million data points that depict elephant movements and identify key connectivity areas and corridors for conservation purposes. A study published in the Journal of Applied Ecology documented how teams from WWF along with nonprofit organizations such as Ecoexist and Elephant Connection, among others, collaborated on the project, which used data collected over the past 15 years to examine connectivity for elephants. Based on the elephants’ movements, the team assessed landscape connectivity at three scales: a zoomed-in micro perspective, between protected areas as well as across the wider landscape. According to the study, each of these scales represented “a movement process whose maintenance is critical to effectively conserve elephants across the entire landscape.” African elephants, the largest land animals on Earth, are an endangered&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/jumbo-collaring-effort-reveals-key-elephant-movement-corridors/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Indonesia, EU reconcile forest data ahead of new rules on deforestation-free trade</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/indonesia-eu-reconcile-forest-data-ahead-of-new-rules-on-deforestation-free-trade/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Aug 2024 04:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, data, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, International Trade, Law, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforests, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Tracking, Trade, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The Indonesian government is working on improving and synchronizing its forest and supply chain data to comply with increasingly strict sustainability standards and requirements in markets where it exports to, including the European Union. Earlier this year, the Indonesian government discovered discrepancies between the forest map and data that it uses, and those [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — The Indonesian government is working on improving and synchronizing its forest and supply chain data to comply with increasingly strict sustainability standards and requirements in markets where it exports to, including the European Union. Earlier this year, the Indonesian government discovered discrepancies between the forest map and data that it uses, and those used by the EU as a reference for the implementation of the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). The EUDR bans imports of seven forest-related commodities — soy, palm oil, coffee, cocoa, timber, rubber and beef — associated with deforestation and illegality. It requires producers and companies trading these commodities into the EU to provide detailed evidence proving they weren’t produced from land deforested since 2020. The new regulations give producers and companies until Dec. 30, 2024, to fully comply. To implement the EUDR, the EU is using forest data published on its Forest Observatory platform, which monitors changes in the world’s forest cover and related divers. Meanwhile, the Indonesian government has its own forest monitoring system called SIMONTANA. It also has its own definition and classification of forest and deforestation. When comparing the EU Forest Observatory maps and the maps in SIMONTANA, the government found discrepancies, with the EU overestimating Indonesia’s forest cover. The government found that some shrublands and farmland, like oil palm plantations and coffee estates, had been categorized as forest cover by the EU. These discrepancies could make it difficult for Indonesian producers to comply with the EUDR and to export their products to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/08/indonesia-eu-reconcile-forest-data-ahead-of-new-rules-on-deforestation-free-trade/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-285841</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Bangladesh uses satellite transmitters on saltwater crocodiles in Asia&#8217;s first</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/bangladesh-using-satellite-transmitters-in-conserving-crocodiles-in-sundarbans/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Apr 2024 12:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rafiqul Islam]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abu Siddique]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Bangladesh, and South Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Critically Endangered Species, data, Endangered Species, Environment, Herps, Mangroves, Remote Sensing, Reptiles, Rivers, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Tracking, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[DHAKA — In a breakthrough in saltwater crocodile conservation in the country, Bangladesh has started using a satellite tagging system to monitor the species’ movements, habits, and life span in the Sundarbans mangroves. These mangrove forests are the animal’s only wild habitat in Bangladesh. On March 13, Bangladesh Forest Department, for the first time in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[DHAKA — In a breakthrough in saltwater crocodile conservation in the country, Bangladesh has started using a satellite tagging system to monitor the species’ movements, habits, and life span in the Sundarbans mangroves. These mangrove forests are the animal’s only wild habitat in Bangladesh. On March 13, Bangladesh Forest Department, for the first time in Asia, attached satellite tags on two saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus) and released them in the mangrove waters of the Sundarbans. A few days later, the same process was repeated on two more individuals. Two Australian crocodilian experts — Ruchira Somaweera, research scientist at Australia&#8217;s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and an adjunct lecturer at Murdoch University, and Paul Beri, principal ranger of Queensland Parks and Wildlife Services — assisted in tagging the crocodiles and trained the forest officials in tagging and monitoring. Bangladesh’s forest department and IUCN Bangladesh are jointly implementing the project with support from the Integrated Management of the Sundarbans Mangroves and the Marine Protected Area (MPA) Swatch of No Ground in Bangladesh (SoNG), initiated by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), on behalf of Germany’s economy and development ministry. One of the four saltwater crocodile with a newly installed satellite transmitter released into the wild. Image by Md Mofizur Rahaman Chowdury. Mihir Kumar Doe, Conservator of Forests (Khulna Circle), said there is a sizeable population of wild saltwater crocodiles in the Sundarbans currently as the forest department has released around 200 saltwater crocodiles to the mangroves since 2016 from its&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/04/bangladesh-using-satellite-transmitters-in-conserving-crocodiles-in-sundarbans/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-281207</doi>				</item>
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					<title>PalmWatch platform pushes for farm-to-fork traceability of palm oil</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/palmwatch-platform-pushes-for-farm-to-fork-traceability-of-palm-oil/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Mar 2024 03:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Colombia, Indonesia, Latin America, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Business, Consumer Action, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forests, International Trade, Palm Oil, Plantations, Rainforests, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Threats To Rainforests, Tracking, Trade, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Farm-to-fork traceability has become an increasingly urgent, and often required, component of global supply chains, with a growing number of commodities now trackable all the way back to their source. But for palm oil, one of the most controversial yet widely used commodities today, full traceability from the plantation to supermarket shelves to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Farm-to-fork traceability has become an increasingly urgent, and often required, component of global supply chains, with a growing number of commodities now trackable all the way back to their source. But for palm oil, one of the most controversial yet widely used commodities today, full traceability from the plantation to supermarket shelves to households remains a challenge due to the complexity of the supply chain. A single ton of palm oil derivative like stearic acid, for instance, used in detergents and cosmetics, is likely to consist of palm oil from hundreds of mills that, in turn, process palm fruit harvested from thousands of plantations. These webs of plantations and mills make it difficult to know whether palm oil is legally sourced and produced from an environmental and social conflict-free area. A new open-access online tool, developed by human rights NGO Inclusive Development International and the University of Chicago Data Science Institute, aims to address this issue. Called PalmWatch, it links 15 major industrial consumers of palm oil, such as Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever, to the ground-level impacts of their palm oil consumption, including deforestation. The homepage of PalmWatch. To identify where these brands are sourcing their palm oil from, PalmWatch scraped individual brands’ most recent online supply chain disclosures and found more than 2,000 mills. The information about these mills is scattered across various websites, with much of the data not standardized, said Dustin Roasa, research director at Inclusive Development International. “PalmWatch puts all brands’ mills disclosure on one database, standardizes&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/palmwatch-platform-pushes-for-farm-to-fork-traceability-of-palm-oil/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-280164</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Ancient giant river dolphin species found in the Peruvian Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ancient-giant-river-dolphin-species-found-in-the-peruvian-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>20 Mar 2024 22:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Bycatch, Cetaceans, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Dams, Dolphins, Dredging, Endangered Species, Environment, Environmental Policy, Fishing, Forests, Freshwater Fish, Green, Mammals, Monitoring, New Discovery, Rainforests, Research, Species Discovery, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A team of paleontologists found a giant fossilized skull along the shore of the Napo River in the Peruvian Amazon. To their surprise, the relic belonged to a newly described species of giant freshwater dolphin. This colossal creature swam in the rivers of the Amazon around 16 million years ago and is considered the largest-known [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A team of paleontologists found a giant fossilized skull along the shore of the Napo River in the Peruvian Amazon. To their surprise, the relic belonged to a newly described species of giant freshwater dolphin. This colossal creature swam in the rivers of the Amazon around 16 million years ago and is considered the largest-known species of river dolphin to have ever lived, measuring 3-3.5 meters (9.8-11.5 feet). Artistic reconstruction of Pebanista yacuruna in the murky waters of the Peruvian proto-Amazonia. Image by Jamie Bran. “As soon as I recognized it, I saw the teeth sockets. I screamed, ‘this is a dolphin.’ We could not believe it,” Aldo Benites-Palomino told The Guardian. Scientists unearthed the fossil during a 2018 expedition led by the University of Zurich (UZH). The new species has been named Pebanista yacuruna, after mythical aquatic beings (Yacuruna) believed by some Indigenous groups to live deep in the river. The team was also surprised to find that the ancient creature was not related to the local, living species of Amazon river pink dolphin (Inia geoffrensis) but rather to South Asian river dolphins (genus Platanista). “We [had] found an animal, a giant, whose closest living relative is 10,000km away in south-east Asia,” Benites-Palomino was quoted as saying. Palaeontologists (from left to right): Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru), Julia Tejada-Lara (California Institute of Technology, California, USA), John Flynn (American Museum of Natura History, New York, USA) &amp; local guide Michel Valles during the 2018 expedition to the Napo&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/ancient-giant-river-dolphin-species-found-in-the-peruvian-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-280128</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Mini radio tags help track ‘murder hornets’ and other invasive insects</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/mini-radio-tags-help-track-murder-hornets-and-other-invasive-insects/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Mar 2024 17:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claudia Geib]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Europe, Global, South Asia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Bees, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, GPS, Insects, Invasive Species, Pollinators, Research, Restoration, Science, Technology, Tracking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The yellow-legged hornet is a predator: after it sets up a nest in a new neighborhood, its workers head out in search of smaller wasps, flies and bees to feed the hive’s growing brood. One of its favorite snacks is honey bees. Lingering outside a hive, these hornets, Vespa velutina, capture flying honey bees mid-air, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The yellow-legged hornet is a predator: after it sets up a nest in a new neighborhood, its workers head out in search of smaller wasps, flies and bees to feed the hive’s growing brood. One of its favorite snacks is honey bees. Lingering outside a hive, these hornets, Vespa velutina, capture flying honey bees mid-air, stopping on their way home only to chew the bee up into pellets to feed their young. In the hornets’ native range across Southeast Asia, local bee species have evolved defenses against the yellow-legged hornet’s attacks. But in Europe and the United States, native bees and agricultural honey bees are defenseless. “As invasives, these hornets are released from any kind of control agents, whereas in southern Asia there are things that prey on them,” says Lynn S. Kimsey, an entomologist at the University of California, Davis. “The threat is that they would expand their population to take up all resources available without any effective control, except maybe us humans.” In the face of this new threat, scientists are turning to an old technology: radio tracking, which has been used to follow wildlife since the 1950s. Thanks to recent advancements, radio tracking tags can now be made small enough to attach to the hornets’ tiny bodies, and in doing so lead scientists back to their nests. These miniature tags are also being tested on other species, such as the northern giant hornet (Vespa mandarinia), better known as the “murder hornet.” With global shipping allowing insects to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/mini-radio-tags-help-track-murder-hornets-and-other-invasive-insects/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New trackers bring prairie dogs’ little-known underground life to light</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/new-trackers-bring-prairie-dogs-little-known-underground-life-to-light/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Mar 2024 11:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[North America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, GPS, Research, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[To say tracking prairie dogs is difficult would be an understatement. The animals spend most of their time in burrows. Since conventional GPS collars don’t function underground, the movements and interactions of prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) have remained notoriously elusive to the researchers who study them. What do they do? How do they move within [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[To say tracking prairie dogs is difficult would be an understatement. The animals spend most of their time in burrows. Since conventional GPS collars don’t function underground, the movements and interactions of prairie dogs (Cynomys spp.) have remained notoriously elusive to the researchers who study them. What do they do? How do they move within their complex burrow systems that have designated areas for storing food and sleeping? While these questions have remained unanswered for a long time, researchers are now testing a new tracker that might shed light on how prairie dogs might be spending their time. The Daily Diary trackers, originally developed to monitor penguins, use accelerometers and magnetometers, and combine that data with GPS technology to monitor prairie dog movements underground. While accelerometers measure if and how fast the animals are moving, the magnetometers enable researchers to determine the direction of their movements. Researchers calibrate this data with GPS information obtained when the animals come out of their burrows, which then gives them an estimation for how the animals are moving. Researchers attach a new tracker to a prairie dog.Image courtesy of Brett Kuxhausen, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. “Using all that data, we are able to get a bearing on what the animal is doing, and reconstruct their trajectories at a very fine scale,” Hila Shamon, research ecologist at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute who is part of the research, told Mongabay in a video interview. “For example, the animal started&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/03/new-trackers-bring-prairie-dogs-little-known-underground-life-to-light/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/conservationists-look-to-defy-gloomy-outlook-for-borneos-sun-bears/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Oct 2023 13:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Bears, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Deforestation, Ecotourism, Education, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Forests, GPS, Green, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Mammals, Palm Oil, Pet Trade, Poaching, Rainforests, Rehabilitation, Reintroductions, Research, Snares, Sun Bears, Tracking, Traditional People, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Wildlife Rescues, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Trafficking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[SABAH, Malaysia — The 3-year-old sun bear sits teddy bear-like in a secluded grassy glade in its rainforest enclosure. Its soft, densely furred belly vibrates as it sucks on one of its front paws, emitting a series of strange, guttural whimpers. Its head downturned, the young bear looks up at us shyly with deep brown [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[SABAH, Malaysia — The 3-year-old sun bear sits teddy bear-like in a secluded grassy glade in its rainforest enclosure. Its soft, densely furred belly vibrates as it sucks on one of its front paws, emitting a series of strange, guttural whimpers. Its head downturned, the young bear looks up at us shyly with deep brown eyes, penetrating our human instinct to care for the vulnerable. “This is a rather sad behavior,” Siew Te Wong, CEO and founder of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (BSBCC), tells Mongabay during a visit to the pioneering rescue and education facility in the Malaysian state of Sabah. Wong says the bear, named Kipaku, was brought to the center as an orphaned cub, and what we’re witnessing is the little bear’s trauma response. “As with all infant mammals, this bear has an urge to suckle,” Wong says. “But he has no mother; his mother was brutally killed by poachers, so he’s had no opportunity to suckle … in the end, he’s developed this self-soothing behavior.” Like Kipaku, most of the 44 sun bears (Helarctos malayanus) Wong and his colleagues currently care for at the BSBCC were brought to them as orphaned cubs illegally taken from the wild and subsequently confiscated by authorities. One of the goals of the BSBCC is to return some of the rescued bears back into the wild to bolster flagging local populations. Since it was launched in 2008, the center has rewilded 12 bears into remote forest reserves in Sabah. But&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/conservationists-look-to-defy-gloomy-outlook-for-borneos-sun-bears/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Nepal&#8217;s tiger conservation gets tech boost with AI-powered deer tracking</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/nepals-tiger-conservation-gets-tech-boost-with-ai-powered-deer-tracking/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Oct 2023 12:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Environmental Policy, Habitat, Protected Areas, Sustainable Forest Management, Technology, Tigers, Top Predators, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU – In the golden hours of twilight, as a tiger tries to hide its long shadows, a herd of spotted deer graze in tranquil oblivion. Every rustle in the bushes nearby prompts members of the herd to quickly raise their head, look for signs of danger and then continue grazing. Yet they are unable [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU – In the golden hours of twilight, as a tiger tries to hide its long shadows, a herd of spotted deer graze in tranquil oblivion. Every rustle in the bushes nearby prompts members of the herd to quickly raise their head, look for signs of danger and then continue grazing. Yet they are unable to discern the lurking danger. With a sudden burst of raw energy, the big cat comes out of hiding and attacks one of the deer in one seamless motion. The animal, the “most favorite” prey species of tigers in Nepal, doesn’t stand a chance. Scenes like these are very common across Nepal’s Terai landscape that endangered tigers (Panthera tigris) call home. According to the Status of Tigers and Prey in Nepal 2022, chittal, as they are known in Nepali, are the most preferred tiger prey in the country. According to the tigers’ diet analysis data, nearly 50% of their food consists of spotted deer (Axis axis) alone. This means that the health and well-being of tigers, which have been the focus of intensive conservation efforts in the country since the 2010 St. Petersburg Declaration on Tiger Conservation, is directly tied with that of spotted deer. However, Nepali researchers are yet to figure out a way to count the deer accurately, let alone assess their different population characteristics such as age or sex. The reason: They are often found in herds and it is difficult to distinguish them from other similar-sized herbivores like barking deer (Muntiacus&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/nepals-tiger-conservation-gets-tech-boost-with-ai-powered-deer-tracking/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Wildlife management platform EarthRanger goes mobile with new app</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/wildlife-management-platform-earthranger-goes-mobile-with-new-app/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Aug 2023 15:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[From getting alerts about injured elephants to tracking ones that are straying too close to villages, the Mara Elephant Project has used the EarthRanger platform since 2019 to manage the protection of wildlife and humans in the Maasai Mara region in Kenya. The web-based platform has helped wildlife managers reduce human-elephant conflict and protect elephants [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[From getting alerts about injured elephants to tracking ones that are straying too close to villages, the Mara Elephant Project has used the EarthRanger platform since 2019 to manage the protection of wildlife and humans in the Maasai Mara region in Kenya. The web-based platform has helped wildlife managers reduce human-elephant conflict and protect elephants from poaching and habitat destruction. EarthRanger is now embracing the mobile era with an app — one that not only retains all the useful features, but also adds greater capability by harnessing the network of users to provide even greater functionality. Since it was launched in 2017, the EarthRanger platform has been used by more than 350 conservation organizations in 60 countries. Developed by nonprofit Allen Institute for AI, the platform gives managers in control rooms a full picture of what’s happening in the field and enables them to respond to any perceived threats. It has also aided law enforcement agencies to track rangers using GPS-powered equipment. In a map that’s updated in real time, protected area managers can observe a wide array of data, including, for the Mara Elephant Project, the movements of collared elephants and tagged ranger vehicles, and analyze the data to inform their decision making. “We have set up virtual fence boundaries, and anytime an elephant crosses those, we get sent an alert,” Jake Wall, the director of research and conservation at the Mara Elephant Project, told Mongabay in a video interview. “Also, if an elephant slows down, we&#8217;ve got a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/wildlife-management-platform-earthranger-goes-mobile-with-new-app/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>AI unlocks secrets of Amazon river dolphins&#8217; behavior, no tagging required</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/ai-unlocks-secrets-of-amazon-river-dolphins-behavior-no-tagging-required/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Aug 2023 13:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon and Brazil]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Bycatch, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Dams, Dolphins, Dredging, Endangered Species, Environment, Fishing, Forests, Freshwater Fish, Green, Mammals, Monitoring, Rainforests, Research, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Freshwater dolphins navigate the waterways of the Amazon Basin. In the wet season, water spills from the rivers, flooding parts of the forests. The dolphins go, too, using their exceptionally flexible bodies and echolocation clicks to navigate a maze of submerged greenery. Researchers who study the dolphins typically use boats to follow and sometimes tag [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Freshwater dolphins navigate the waterways of the Amazon Basin. In the wet season, water spills from the rivers, flooding parts of the forests. The dolphins go, too, using their exceptionally flexible bodies and echolocation clicks to navigate a maze of submerged greenery. Researchers who study the dolphins typically use boats to follow and sometimes tag the animals, but this is nearly impossible in floodplain forests. As a result, the habits of two endangered freshwater species — the pink river dolphin or boto (Inia geoffrensis) and the tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis) — have been shrouded in mystery until recently. Researchers from the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, and the Mamirauá Institute of Sustainable Development in Tefé, Brazil, have successfully combined advanced acoustic-monitoring techniques and artificial intelligence to shed light on the movements and behaviors of these dolphins in their seasonally flooded habitats. Their results are published in the journal Scientific Reports. Two botos exploring the floodplains in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve. Image courtesy of Wezddy Del Toro/IDSM. The researchers submerged powerful recording devices called hydrophones to depths of 3-5 meters (10-16 feet) at various spots across an area covering approximately 800 square kilometers (309 square miles) of the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve in Amazonas state. The hydrophones recorded sounds from various habitats, including river channels, confluence bays, floodplain lakes, and flooded forests during both wet and dry seasons between June 2019 and September 2020. To analyze these recordings, they employed convolutional neural networks (CNN), a type of deep-learning algorithm, to automatically&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/ai-unlocks-secrets-of-amazon-river-dolphins-behavior-no-tagging-required/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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