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					<title>Methane chasers: Hunting a climate-changing gas seeping from Earth&#8217;s seafloor</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/methane-chasers-hunting-a-climate-changing-gas-seeping-from-earths-seafloor/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/methane-chasers-hunting-a-climate-changing-gas-seeping-from-earths-seafloor/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Jan 2026 15:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Devitt]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Planetary Boundaries]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arctic Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, Global, Indian Ocean, Pacific Ocean, and Southern Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Marine, Methane, Oceans, Research, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a small group of scientific specialists searching the world’s oceans for tiny streams of methane gas-filled globules rising from seafloor sediments. On expeditions ranging from the Arctic to Antarctica, carried out in shallow waters to thousands of meters below [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[They’ve been called “bubble chasers,” and “seep seekers,” though they sometimes call themselves “flare hunters.” They’re a small group of scientific specialists searching the world’s oceans for tiny streams of methane gas-filled globules rising from seafloor sediments. On expeditions ranging from the Arctic to Antarctica, carried out in shallow waters to thousands of meters below the sea’s surface, their studies reveal how these tiny globules can potentially add to global warming while also creating unique ecosystems. But even when deploying advanced modern technology, finding these cold-ocean methane seeps isn’t easy. And it may be even harder to determine exactly how seafloor methane releases could factor into the future of humanity and the planet. Map showing the known global occurrences of methane-derived carbonates used to compile a study of seafloor methane seepage across the last 150 million years. Image courtesy of Oppo et al. (2020). Bubbles flowing from a methane seep at El Quisco, off the coast of Chile. Researchers found the seeps using sonar-based bubble mapping, bathymetric mapping, tracking in situ methane concentration measurements, and visual surveys with the ROV SuBastian. Image by ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute (CC BY-NC-SA). Hunting telltale bubbles “These seeps are fascinating and extreme environments,” said Claudio Argentino, a sediment biogeochemist at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, whose fieldwork started at ancient methane seep sites in Italy’s Apennine Mountains in 2015, during his doctoral studies, and now takes him to the Arctic Ocean. “We want to know how much gas is escaping the seafloor sediment&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/methane-chasers-hunting-a-climate-changing-gas-seeping-from-earths-seafloor/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-312714</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Photos: Top new species from 2025</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/photos-top-new-species-from-2025/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Dec 2025 14:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Andes, Angola, Atlantic Ocean, Brazil, Cerrado, Global, Himalayas, India, Peru, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Amphibians, Animals, Biodiversity, Captive Breeding, Climate Change, Cloud Forests, Conservation, Deep Sea, Deforestation, DNA, Ecosystem Services, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Farming, Forests, Fungi, Habitat Loss, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Indigenous Peoples, Invasive Species, Marine, Mining, Oceans, Old Growth Forests, Pollution, Protected Areas, Ranching, Research, Science, Snakes, Species, Species Discovery, Swamps, Threatened species, Traditional Knowledge, Traditional People, Trees, Tropical Forests, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean&#8217;s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the genetic code are creatures unknown and unnamed by the human species. Every year, scientists find hundreds of new animals, insects, plants and fungi. This year, researchers described a tiny new marsupial, a new Himalayan [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world still holds its secrets. Hidden under wet rocks, in the ocean&#8217;s twilight crevices, and in the minutiae of the genetic code are creatures unknown and unnamed by the human species. Every year, scientists find hundreds of new animals, insects, plants and fungi. This year, researchers described a tiny new marsupial, a new Himalayan bat, an ancient tree, a bright blue butterfly, a parrot snake, and a fairy lantern plant, among others. &#8220;I think most people believe that we know most species on Earth,&#8221; Mario Moura, a professor at the Federal University of Paraíba in Brazil, told Mongabay, &#8220;but in the best-case scenario, we know 20% of Earth&#8217;s species.&#8221; Some estimate that only 10% of all the species on the planet have been described. Unfortunately, many species may be threatened with extinction before they’re even formally named — victims of human activities like development and climate change. Some of these species could be food or medicine for humans, but each plays a unique role in Earth’s interconnected web of life. “We’re understanding more and more that every species on the planet has a role, and in one way or another, is linked to our well-being through the part they play in ecosystems,&#8221; said Boris Worm, a marine conservation biologist who co-authored a study that quantifies the number of undescribed species on land and in the ocean. “We can’t protect them … if we don’t know them.&#8221; Atlantic manta ray (Mobula yarae) with a diver off the coast of Mexico. Originally&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/photos-top-new-species-from-2025/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-312133</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Sounds of the soil: A new tool for conservation?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/sounds-of-the-soil-a-new-tool-for-conservation/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Jun 2023 17:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, Degraded Lands, Ecosystems, Environment, forest degradation, Forests, Landscape Restoration, Microorganisms, Research, Restoration, Soil Carbon, Solutions, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[For Jake Robinson, Greno Woods was an easy choice. This large, old forest in South Yorkshire county in the U.K. has historically undergone timber harvesting, quarrying and fires. Plantations of non-native conifers replaced parts of the forest several decades ago. At the same time, restoration efforts have tried to revive some of the degraded and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For Jake Robinson, Greno Woods was an easy choice. This large, old forest in South Yorkshire county in the U.K. has historically undergone timber harvesting, quarrying and fires. Plantations of non-native conifers replaced parts of the forest several decades ago. At the same time, restoration efforts have tried to revive some of the degraded and deforested areas through the planting of native broadleaved and deciduous trees. This setting presented a unique opportunity: to listen to the sounds of restoration. Robinson, a microbial and restoration ecologist at Flinders University in Australia, was particularly interested in two types of area in the forest: sites that had been cleared in the past three years, and previously deforested plots that restorers had planted with native trees more than 30 years ago. Aboveground, the differences between the two were easy to spot. The recently cleared plots were mostly covered by bracken (Pteridium aquilinum), with a sprinkling of silver birch saplings (Betula pendula). By contrast, the restored areas had more diverse trees, including English oak (Quercus robur), sessile oak (Q. petraea), rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) and silver birch, along with a complex understory of bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), bramble (Rubus fruticosus agg.), holly (Ilex aquifolium) and bracken. Field recording in Greno Wood. Sound can be used as a proxy in some cases — listening to soil can indirectly show what’s happening belowground without having to overturn every inch and disturb the denizens of the dirt. Image courtesy of Jake Robinson. But Robinson wasn’t just interested in what he could see. He&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/sounds-of-the-soil-a-new-tool-for-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-270318</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Flooding for hydropower dams hits forest-reliant bats hard, study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/flooding-for-hydropower-dams-hits-forest-reliant-bats-hard-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 May 2023 14:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Malaysia, Peninsular Malaysia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Animals, Bats, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Development, Ecosystems, Environment, Flooding, Forest Fragmentation, Forests, Fragmentation, Freshwater, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, Hydroelectric Power, Infrastructure, Mammals, Rainforests, Renewable Energy, Research, Tropical Forests, Water, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Flitting through the forest foliage, darting between branches and flawlessly negotiating their way around gargantuan tree trunks, bats have evolved exquisite adaptations to their forest homes. Although inaudible to human ears, the tropical forest canopy is abuzz every night with the tiny mammals’ echolocating calls as they pinpoint and gobble up their insect prey with [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Flitting through the forest foliage, darting between branches and flawlessly negotiating their way around gargantuan tree trunks, bats have evolved exquisite adaptations to their forest homes. Although inaudible to human ears, the tropical forest canopy is abuzz every night with the tiny mammals’ echolocating calls as they pinpoint and gobble up their insect prey with deft precision. But these high-performance adaptations, evolved over millions of years, could be the undoing of many species in the face of unprecedented human development pressures, according to new research. Scientists studying insect-eating bats in Peninsular Malaysia have demonstrated that forest-specialist species are particularly prone to local extinction following flooding of the landscape for hydropower development. In contrast, species that find their meals along forest edges or clear above the canopy — which typically have a larger body size, are slower-moving and capable of flying longer distances — were less affected by the development. The team published their results recently in the journal Biological Conservation. Although biologists have long sounded the alarm that hydropower dams pose greater risks to tropical biodiversity than solar or wind power, biodiverse waterways and forests continue to be dammed and flooded in many parts of Southeast Asia. “River damming, by favoring the creation of a myriad of small islands of poor habitat quality, triggered a wave of insectivorous bat extirpations,” Ana Filipa Palmeirim, a tropical forest biologist at the Research Center for Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (CIBIO) at the University of Porto in Portugal and co-author of the new study,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/flooding-for-hydropower-dams-hits-forest-reliant-bats-hard-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-269074</doi>				</item>
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					<title>The more degraded a forest, the quieter its wildlife, new study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/the-more-degraded-a-forest-the-quieter-its-wildlife-new-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Apr 2023 05:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Indonesia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Amphibians, Animals, Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Birds, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Forests, Innovation, Mammals, Monitoring, Rainforests, Research, Technology, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Tropical forests awaken the senses. The scent of moist earth, the feel of sticky, humid air, and the sight of an array of colorful life-forms are visceral delights. But perhaps the most striking sensory element is the sound. A more or less continual cacophony of animal calls and songs resonates beneath the leafy canopy — [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Tropical forests awaken the senses. The scent of moist earth, the feel of sticky, humid air, and the sight of an array of colorful life-forms are visceral delights. But perhaps the most striking sensory element is the sound. A more or less continual cacophony of animal calls and songs resonates beneath the leafy canopy — from birds that trill, warble and honk, to mammals, insects and amphibians that howl, chirp and croak. Forest scientists are increasingly recording and analyzing these animal noises, collectively known as the forest “soundscape,” as a way of monitoring biodiversity for conservation. By looking at the complexity of the animal assemblages that make sounds, researchers can get a sense of the health of the overall forest ecosystem. In temperate and boreal parts of the world, methods for analyzing and interpreting the hundreds of hours of recordings and terabytes of acoustic data from such surveys are well developed. It’s possible, for instance, to use artificial intelligence via a mobile phone app to identify calling birds in the forests of Europe and North America. Such technology can allow researchers to study the distribution of multiple species on vast scales and over long periods of time. However, technology lags behind in the tropics, where soundscapes are incredibly complex and there’s relatively little information on the sounds of species. A particular bottleneck in tropical soundscape research is the lack of reference databases of tropical forest species, according to Zuzana Burivalova, a tropical forest ecologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Tropical&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/04/the-more-degraded-a-forest-the-quieter-its-wildlife-new-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-267785</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Pingers on fishing nets found to save river dolphins in Indonesian Borneo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/pingers-on-fishing-nets-found-to-save-river-dolphins-in-indonesian-borneo/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/pingers-on-fishing-nets-found-to-save-river-dolphins-in-indonesian-borneo/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>29 Oct 2021 10:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
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						<![CDATA[Carolyncowan]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Animals, Biodiversity, Bycatch, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, Critically Endangered Species, Dolphins, Endangered Species, Environment, Fisheries, Fishing, Mammals, Marine Mammals, Mitigation, Rivers, Solutions, Tropics, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The last 80 Irrawaddy dolphins that inhabit the Mahakam River in Indonesian Borneo lead precarious lives. Their forays to find fish are frequently thwarted, sometimes fatally so, by a series of near-invisible gillnets that hang passively in the water column to ensnare fish. More than two-thirds of recorded river dolphin deaths in the Mahakam are [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The last 80 Irrawaddy dolphins that inhabit the Mahakam River in Indonesian Borneo lead precarious lives. Their forays to find fish are frequently thwarted, sometimes fatally so, by a series of near-invisible gillnets that hang passively in the water column to ensnare fish. More than two-thirds of recorded river dolphin deaths in the Mahakam are due to entanglement in these fishing nets. At an average of four deaths per year, experts say the losses are unsustainable for this critically endangered population of Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris). Each dolphin drowned in a net nudges the population one step closer toward extinction. But their fate is not yet sealed. Over the past two years, local fishers have collaborated with the nonprofit Conservation Foundation for Rare Aquatic Species of Indonesia (YK-RASI) to develop an innovative solution to the dolphins’ plight. By attaching a banana-sized electronic device called a “pinger” to their nets, fishers have found they are able to keep the dolphins at a safe distance, preventing fatal entanglements. Pingers emit regular high-frequency pulses that are sufficiently audible to dolphins to serve as a deterrent. While pingers have been used around the world to reduce ocean bycatch of whales, dolphins and porpoises, this is the first time they have been used successfully in a river. The team assessed the pingers’ efficacy using underwater acoustic recorders to listen to the dolphins’ echolocation clicks and observations of the animals’ behavior from the surface. Their data indicated that dolphins kept a 10-meter (33-foot) radius around the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/pingers-on-fishing-nets-found-to-save-river-dolphins-in-indonesian-borneo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-248751</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Electronic ears listen to poachers in a key Central American jaguar habitat</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/electronic-ears-spy-on-poachers-in-a-key-central-american-jaguar-habitat/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Feb 2021 15:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Guatemala, and Honduras]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Animals, Big Cats, Bioacoustics, Carnivores, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Crime, Jaguars, Protected Areas, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, Wildlife Corridors, Wildlife Rangers, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Trafficking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A gunshot explodes through the rainforest, followed by what sounds like branches falling from a tree. A dog barks. &#8220;Tito, did I hit it?” a man asks his companion in Spanish. “Oh yes, I did hit it. Look, there is blood dripping. I shot it from over there.” These sounds were recorded on an acoustical [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A gunshot explodes through the rainforest, followed by what sounds like branches falling from a tree. A dog barks. &#8220;Tito, did I hit it?” a man asks his companion in Spanish. “Oh yes, I did hit it. Look, there is blood dripping. I shot it from over there.” These sounds were recorded on an acoustical monitoring unit deployed by Panthera, a wild cat conservation organization, in Guatemala&#8217;s Sierra Caral National Protected Area, a region close to the Honduras border. “We believe they shot an animal that was up the trees,” Franklin Castañeda, Panthera’s Honduras director, told Mongabay. “I’m guessing it could have been a monkey or some kind of great curassow bird.” In 2017, Panthera started using acoustical monitoring systems to help strengthen its anti-poaching patrols in three protected areas: Honduras’s Cusuco and Jeannette Kawas national parks, and Guatemala’s Sierra Caral National Protected Area. Now that the program has been running for four years, Castañeda says he can see its positive effect in the organization’s patrolling efforts. For instance, in August 2020, authorities were able to arrest three poachers in Honduras based on acoustical information, according to Panthera. “The acoustic monitoring is a tool [that] gives us … information to improve patrols, to make them more effective,” Castañeda said. “For example, we now know that poachers are preparing [to go out on] dark nights when the moon is not out. How do we know that? We know that because &#8230; we hear a lot more shot guns on the dark&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/electronic-ears-spy-on-poachers-in-a-key-central-american-jaguar-habitat/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-239854</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Whale of a find: Scientists spot beaked whale believed to be a new species</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/whale-of-a-find-scientists-spot-beaked-whale-believed-to-be-a-new-species/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Dec 2020 17:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Mexico and Pacific Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Animals, Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Cetaceans, Conservation, Conservation Technology, DNA, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Mammals, Oceans, Species, Species Discovery, Tracking, Whales, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[When a trio of beaked whales surfaced off Mexico’s Pacific coast, researchers thought they’d found the elusive Perrin’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon perrini), an endangered species that’s never been officially sighted alive. But upon closer inspection, the researchers realized they may have stumbled upon something even rarer — a new species of beaked whale altogether. On [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When a trio of beaked whales surfaced off Mexico’s Pacific coast, researchers thought they’d found the elusive Perrin’s beaked whale (Mesoplodon perrini), an endangered species that’s never been officially sighted alive. But upon closer inspection, the researchers realized they may have stumbled upon something even rarer — a new species of beaked whale altogether. On November 17, the research team was sailing aboard the Martin Sheen, a vessel operated by conservation group Sea Shepherd, when they spotted the three beaked whales about 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Mexico’s San Benito Islands. They managed to capture photos and video recordings of the animals, and also dropped a specialized microphone underwater to record the animals’ acoustic signals. Two beaked whales swimming by the Sea Shepherd vessel. Image by Sea Shepherd / CONANP. “The whales, amazingly, surfaced four or five times really close to the ship,” Elizabeth Henderson, a bioacoustics scientist at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific’s (NIWC PAC) whale acoustics reconnaissance program and one of the researchers on the expedition, told Mongabay in an interview. “They actually seemed to be circling us. We put in one of our acoustic recorders, and they kind of checked that out. For beaked whales, it was incredible, because beaked whales are typically so elusive when it comes to ships.” Beaked whales communicate via echolocation clicks above the frequency of human hearing. But when Henderson and her colleagues analyzed the acoustical data, they found that these whales’ clicks were slightly different from those produced by&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/12/whale-of-a-find-scientists-spot-beaked-whale-believed-to-be-a-new-species/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Spiny lobsters raise an undersea racket that can be heard miles away</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/spiny-lobsters-raise-an-undersea-racket-that-can-be-heard-miles-away/</link>
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					<pubDate>27 May 2020 09:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[France]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Animal Behavior, Animals, Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Fishing, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Over-hunting, Research, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[European spiny lobsters create quite the rumble. By rubbing an antenna across its face, a spiny lobster can create a sound that might, under the right underwater conditions, be detectable up to 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) away.The sound, known as an antennal rasp, occurs when an extension of a lobster’s antennae moves across a rough [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[European spiny lobsters create quite the rumble. By rubbing an antenna across its face, a spiny lobster can create a sound that might, under the right underwater conditions, be detectable up to 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) away.The sound, known as an antennal rasp, occurs when an extension of a lobster’s antennae moves across a rough patch under its eye. Lobsters likely make this sound for communication or to scare away predators. In a recently published study in Scientific Reports, researchers asked, how far does the sound of a rasp travel? And can these sounds be used in a non-invasive way to monitor lobster populations? Defensive behavior of two spiny lobsters. Photo by Erwan AMICE/CNRS Spiny lobsters (Palinurus elephas) are found in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea. Intensive fishing of lobsters for food in the 1960s and 1970s made spiny lobsters scarce in European waters and even led to local extinctions off southwest Britain. Though populations have rebounded, there remains a need to monitor and manage lobster populations from overharvesting. Using hydrophones (underwater microphones that record sound from all directions), researchers recorded 1,560 antennal rasps from 24 individual lobsters in the Bay of Saint Anne du Portzic, France. They placed hydrophones at distances of 10, 20, 50 and 100 meters (33 to 330 feet) away from each lobster. The largest lobsters (with a carapace, or body shell, 13.5 centimeters long, or about 5 inches) made sounds detectable at 100 m distance; in general, the larger the lobster, the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/05/spiny-lobsters-raise-an-undersea-racket-that-can-be-heard-miles-away/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-230624</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Baby whale wears a camera, reveals its travel and nursing behavior: video</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/baby-whale-wears-a-camera-reveals-its-travel-and-nursing-behavior-video/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Jul 2019 16:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Indian Ocean and Madagascar]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Animals, cameras, Cetaceans, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Mammals, Monitoring, Oceans, Research, Sensors, Technology, Videos, Whales, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Baby whales, like all young mammals, rely on their mother’s milk for their early development. A new video follows a nursing humpback whale and her calf and takes the calf’s point of view as it positions itself beneath its mom and begins nursing. A camera placed by researchers in Madagascar on the back of the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Baby whales, like all young mammals, rely on their mother’s milk for their early development. A new video follows a nursing humpback whale and her calf and takes the calf’s point of view as it positions itself beneath its mom and begins nursing. A camera placed by researchers in Madagascar on the back of the baby provided the unusual viewpoint. Researchers from Cétamada, a Madagascar non-profit conducting research, education, and ecotourism awareness raising on whales and other cetaceans, and the bioacoustic communications team at the Université Paris Sud in France have studied humpback whales that breed along Madagascar’s east coast, near the island of Sainte Marie. This is the “first-ever camera attached to a humpback whale calf to study mother-young behavioral interactions,” write the researchers in the video. The clip first shows the traveling whales and the calf&#8217;s visit to the surface to breathe. A humpback whale calf travels with and suckles its mother, the first time this has been filmed from the calf&#8217;s view. Note how the calf negotiates the mammary slits on both sides of its mom while the mother slows her pace to better enable her calf to feed. You can also listen for whale calls in the background. The video was recorded using a CATS Cam camera on a humpback whale breeding ground at Sainte Marie Island on the east coast of Madagascar. Video courtesy of (c) CNRS/ Cétamada. “It is very important for us to collect underwater video footage, Olivier Adam, a professor at Université Paris&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/baby-whale-wears-a-camera-reveals-its-travel-and-nursing-behavior-video/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-220791</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Conservation tech prize with invasive species focus announces finalists</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/conservation-tech-prize-with-invasive-species-focus-announces-finalists/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/conservation-tech-prize-with-invasive-species-focus-announces-finalists/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Jul 2019 15:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Agriculture, algae, Artificial Intelligence, cameras, Conservation Technology, Drones, early warning, Frogs, Insects, Invasive Species, Monitoring, Oceans, Sensors, Surveying, Technology, Turtles And Tortoises, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Con X Tech Prize just announced its second round will be funding 20 finalists each with $3,500 to create their first prototypes. Some 150 teams submitted ideas that use technology to address a conservation challenge. The 20 winners of this first stage of the competition will also compete for a grand prize of $20,000, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Con X Tech Prize just announced its second round will be funding 20 finalists each with $3,500 to create their first prototypes. Some 150 teams submitted ideas that use technology to address a conservation challenge. The 20 winners of this first stage of the competition will also compete for a grand prize of $20,000, plus support from CXL on product development and attracting investment. The prize accepts ideas for any conservation problem, with a particular focus on addressing threats from a specific theme. This second round of the prize focused on reducing impacts from invasive species to native species and ecosystems. The first round, sponsored in 2018, focused on ocean conservation. Biotech Steve Orwig removes an invasive Mexican weeping pine (Pinus patula) from the crater of Hawai’i’s Haleakalā National Park. Pines like these grow rapidly, are spread by wind from nearby forest plantings, and disrupt native ecosystems by shading out native shrubs and taking up water and nutrients. Image courtesy of U.S. National Park Service. “We have a range of hardware and software solutions we are funding, including tools in aquatic invasive species, camera traps, ag-tech, human-wildlife conflict, marine acoustics, and many more,” said Tom Quigley, who manages the digital makerspace community at Conservation X Labs, which offers the prize. “It’s a really exciting cohort.” Seven of the 20 finalists focused specifically on designs to address invasive species, while the remaining 13 teams sought to address a range of conservation issues, from wildlife trafficking to acoustic monitoring to capturing&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/conservation-tech-prize-with-invasive-species-focus-announces-finalists/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Tiny tracking tags help decode how echolocating bats navigate</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/tiny-tracking-tags-help-decode-how-echolocating-bats-navigate/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 May 2019 13:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Lakshmi Supriya]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Denmark and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Animal Behavior, Animals, Bats, Bioacoustics, data, Mammals, Research, Technology, Tracking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[While we fumble and crash without any light, bats zipping away in the dark, effortlessly skirting obstacles and pouncing on prey, seem magical. To better understand this ability of bats to “see” in the dark, researchers fixed tags that can simultaneously measure both bats’ movements and all the sounds they send and hear, creating a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[While we fumble and crash without any light, bats zipping away in the dark, effortlessly skirting obstacles and pouncing on prey, seem magical. To better understand this ability of bats to “see” in the dark, researchers fixed tags that can simultaneously measure both bats’ movements and all the sounds they send and hear, creating a map of the sensory inputs in a bat’s environment and how it reacts to them. Such information can help us better understand how bats navigate and feed in the wild, something previously difficult to study. More than half of all bat species use sound to “see”, emitting sounds and listening to the echoes to go about their daily lives. Their brains process the returning echoes and help them determine how far away objects are, how big they are, if they are moving, and how fast and in which direction the objects are moving. This echolocating ability of bats has long been studied, but questions remain, such as how can bats pick out the echoes they are interested in, for example a juicy meal or a predator swooping down, versus all the other echoes they perceive. A big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) in flight in Oregon, US, looks either hungry or sinister but possibly is just busy echolocating, a process by which bats emit high-frequency calls and use information about the return echo to navigate and detect objects around them at night. Image by Angell Williams, CC  2.0. One way to measure events of interest is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/05/tiny-tracking-tags-help-decode-how-echolocating-bats-navigate/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-219050</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Something smells fishy: Scientists uncover illegal fishing using shark tracking devices</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/something-smells-fishy-scientists-discover-illegal-fishing-using-shark-tracking-devices/</link>
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					<pubDate>07 Mar 2019 19:50:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sophie Manson]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Indian Ocean and United Kingdom]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Fish, Fishing, Illegal Fishing, Innovation, Law Enforcement, Marine Protected Areas, Monitoring, Oceans, Research, shark finning, Sharks, Solutions, Technology, Tracking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[In April 2015, researchers headed out to the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to service acoustic receivers they had dotted around the archipelago, and to download tag data from the 95 grey reef and silvertip sharks they had tagged a year prior. Little did they know that over the course of 10 days during [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In April 2015, researchers headed out to the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean to service acoustic receivers they had dotted around the archipelago, and to download tag data from the 95 grey reef and silvertip sharks they had tagged a year prior. Little did they know that over the course of 10 days during the previous December, 15 of their tagged individuals had been illegally fished. The Chagos Archipelago, otherwise known as the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), boasts one of the largest marine reserves in the world. The BIOT Marine Protected Area was created in 2010 and comprises 544,000 square kilometers (210,040 square miles) of marine habitat, including an archipelago of seven atolls, at least 70 islands, and some of the world’s most pristine coral reefs. Salomans Atoll in the Chagos Archipelago: the atolls are believed to serve as nurseries for juvenile sharks. Image by Anne Sheppard. The British Government created the reserve to conserve the archipelago’s biodiverse ecosystems, amidst concerns that increased fishing pressure from neighboring countries, including India and Sri Lanka, would decimate populations of important marine species. The sheltered atolls of BIOT attract several species of pelagic and reef shark; here, mothers can give birth without their young being immediately threatened with predation, and juveniles can learn to hunt in lagoons before heading into the open ocean. Researchers have been recording shark populations in BIOT since the 1970s, and it has become clear that the numbers they are witnessing now are not what they should be.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/03/something-smells-fishy-scientists-discover-illegal-fishing-using-shark-tracking-devices/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-216342</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Jammin’ at wind farms may help save bats</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/jammin-at-wind-turbines-may-help-save-bats/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/jammin-at-wind-turbines-may-help-save-bats/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 Feb 2019 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mary Bates]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Texas and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Alternative Energy, Animals, Bats, Birds, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Human-wildlife Conflict, Renewable Energy, Solutions, Technology, Wildtech, and Wind Power]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wind turbines are a valuable source of renewable energy, but they’re eco-unfriendly in one particular way: the giant spinning blades frequently kill birds and bats. A new system that jams bats’ echolocation with ultrasound is showing promise in reducing fatalities at wind energy facilities. Researchers at Texas State University, in partnership with Bat Conservation International [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Wind turbines are a valuable source of renewable energy, but they’re eco-unfriendly in one particular way: the giant spinning blades frequently kill birds and bats. A new system that jams bats’ echolocation with ultrasound is showing promise in reducing fatalities at wind energy facilities. Researchers at Texas State University, in partnership with Bat Conservation International (BCI), found that the ultrasonic Bat Deterrent System developed by NRG Systems reduced overall bat fatalities at the Los Vientos Wind Energy Facility in Starr county, Texas, by 54 percent. Hoary bats (Lasiurus cinereus) like this one are long-distant migrants. Collisions with wind turbines during their annual migrations kill tens of thousands of these bats each year. Image by via Flickr (CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0). As the use of wind energy grows, so does a troubling and unanticipated side effect. Researchers estimate that hundreds of thousands of bats are killed by wind turbines each year in North America alone. In fact, wind turbines are the largest cause of mass bat mortality around the world. This is especially troubling in parts of the U.S. and Canada where the deadly fungal disease white-nose syndrome is decimating certain bat species. Researchers fear that bat populations already weakened by the fungus will not be able to withstand the additional mortality from wind turbines. It seems that bats are attracted to wind turbines, possibly viewing them as large trees on the landscape or as a foraging resource, according to Sara Weaver, a doctoral candidate at Texas State University and biology lecturer at&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/jammin-at-wind-turbines-may-help-save-bats/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-215327</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How do you assess if a reintroduced species is thriving? Listen for it</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/how-do-you-assess-if-a-reintroduced-species-is-thriving-listen-for-it/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/how-do-you-assess-if-a-reintroduced-species-is-thriving-listen-for-it/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Feb 2019 12:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[New Zealand]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Artificial Intelligence, Bioacoustics, Birds, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Critically Endangered Species, Endangered Species, Invasive Species, Islands, Protected Areas, Reintroductions, Sensors, Solutions, Species, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[When you’re new to an area, it takes time to settle in. We all want a comfortable place to live, in a safe neighborhood, with convenient access to shops and schools yet without too much traffic. It’s the same for birds. How animals find their way around unfamiliar territory is a key question for wildlife [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When you’re new to an area, it takes time to settle in. We all want a comfortable place to live, in a safe neighborhood, with convenient access to shops and schools yet without too much traffic. It’s the same for birds. How animals find their way around unfamiliar territory is a key question for wildlife managers who translocate animals from one place to another. Now, an international research team hopes to answer that very question by “eavesdropping” on a group of one of New Zealand’s highly endangered birds with acoustic recording devices. A male hihi (Notiomystis cincta) kindly pauses for the camera. Females of this endangered species are duller-colored and lack the small white &#8220;wings&#8221; at the side of their heads. Hihis were driven extinct on New Zealand&#8217;s mainland and are now being reintroduced into areas free of cats and other invasive predators. Image courtesy of Zoological Society of London (ZSL). The researchers used the devices to listen for the calls of a group of hihis (Notiomystis cincta), small vocal birds that had been driven extinct across mainland New Zealand in the 1880s but recently released in a protected area on the country’s North Island. Bringing back lost species Moving animals from a threatened area to a safer one or from an overcrowded area to one where the species may have been previously extirpated is a management technique that’s become more common as human activities eliminate native animals. Humans have decimated animal populations through hunting, destroying their habitat, or bringing&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/02/how-do-you-assess-if-a-reintroduced-species-is-thriving-listen-for-it/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-215257</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Eavesdrop on forest sounds to effectively monitor biodiversity, researchers say</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/eavesdrop-on-forest-sounds-to-effectively-monitor-biodiversity-researchers-say/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/eavesdrop-on-forest-sounds-to-effectively-monitor-biodiversity-researchers-say/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Jan 2019 19:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=214304</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Asia, Global, South America, South Asia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Animals, Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Green, Mammals, Plantations, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Sensors, Solutions, Technology, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[There’s a lot to listen for in a tropical forest. There’s the sound of life: the howls, the hoots, the croaks. There’s the sound of loss: the buzz of chainsaws, the groan of falling trees, the silence. Eavesdropping on these sounds, or their absence, can be an effective way of monitoring animal diversity, researchers say in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[There’s a lot to listen for in a tropical forest. There’s the sound of life: the howls, the hoots, the croaks. There’s the sound of loss: the buzz of chainsaws, the groan of falling trees, the silence. Eavesdropping on these sounds, or their absence, can be an effective way of monitoring animal diversity, researchers say in a new commentary published in Science. In fact, recording and analyzing animal calls and songs in tropical forests, whether near-pristine or disturbed, could also do a better job of gauging whether conservation actions are working. In 2017 and 2018, Mongabay&#8217;s Conservation Effectiveness series found that there’s a lot we don’t know about how effective popular conservation strategies, such as forest certification or community-based forest management, have been at achieving the objectives they set out to realize. One problem, we found, is that assessing the success of these actions depends on detailed, long-term, repeated surveys of forests and their inhabitants. The scope of current survey methods is, however, limited. Satellite images, for example, have been a game changer when it comes to monitoring forests — but these only tell us about the forest cover, revealing little about the animals that live inside or the threats like overhunting or invasion by exotic species. On-the-ground surveys like camera trapping or physically counting animals in transects also yield useful results. But again, these surveys are expensive, logistically difficult, and cover a limited set of animal groups over a smaller landscape. It was the desire to find a more consistent way of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2019/01/eavesdrop-on-forest-sounds-to-effectively-monitor-biodiversity-researchers-say/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-214304</doi>				</item>
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					<title>10 ways conservation tech shifted into auto in 2018</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/10-ways-conservation-tech-shifted-into-auto-in-2018/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/10-ways-conservation-tech-shifted-into-auto-in-2018/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>28 Dec 2018 17:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Australia, Brazil, East Africa, Global, India, Maldives, Namibia, South America, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Artificial Intelligence, Bioacoustics, Camera Trapping, cameras, Citizen Science, data, Deforestation, Drones, Forests, GPS, Law Enforcement, Mapping, Monitoring, Oceans, Remote Sensing, Research, Satellite Imagery, Sea Turtles, Sensors, Sharks, Software, Surveillance, Surveying, Technology, Tracking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[You can now speak into your mobile phone and have it produce written text. Then have Google translate your words into Japanese, or Hindi. In two seconds. These examples of artificial intelligence automate tasks that used to require experts and numerous hours to complete. Our 2018 review of tech stories highlights how automation is transforming [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[You can now speak into your mobile phone and have it produce written text. Then have Google translate your words into Japanese, or Hindi. In two seconds. These examples of artificial intelligence automate tasks that used to require experts and numerous hours to complete. Our 2018 review of tech stories highlights how automation is transforming how we study and monitor nature, aggregating and analyzing multiple data sources, and communicating the results as management and conservation recommendations. Artificial intelligence (AI), including various types of pattern recognition algorithms and neural networks, is changing how the research and conservation communities do their work. We highlight just some examples below. 1) Image pattern recognition for detecting species Pattern recognition includes the automated detection of target objects in photos – taken by people, drones, satellites, or cameras traps – as well as in sound files collected with acoustic monitoring devices. As image datasets grow, the availability of pattern recognition algorithms becomes more critical. For example, one study showed that deep neural networks, a type of machine learning that recognizes numerical patterns in stages, can review and categorize image data far faster than humans can, and nearly as accurately.  These networks automatically counted, identified, and described the behaviors of 48 animal species in the 3.2-million image Snapshot Serengeti camera trap dataset, which would translate to saving more than 17,000 hours, or nearly 8.5 years of human labeling effort. A large leopard crosses between a pair of camera traps at sunset. The Karnataka study surveyed leopards in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/10-ways-conservation-tech-shifted-into-auto-in-2018/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-214177</doi>				</item>
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					<title>A monitoring network in the Amazon captures a flood of data</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/a-monitoring-network-in-the-amazon-captures-a-flood-of-data/</link>
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					<pubDate>11 Dec 2018 12:09:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Oliveira]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Artificial Intelligence, Bioacoustics, Camera Trapping, cameras, Communication, data, Dolphins, Forests, Jaguars, Monitoring, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Research, Robots, Sensors, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Monitoring technology deployed in a remote rainforest over time subjects it to high heat, humidity, and rainfall, as well as potential damage by insects and other wildlife. When you add an annual 10-meter (33-foot) flood to the mix, you’re taking on nature in a big way. Despite these challenges, an interdisciplinary research effort aims to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Monitoring technology deployed in a remote rainforest over time subjects it to high heat, humidity, and rainfall, as well as potential damage by insects and other wildlife. When you add an annual 10-meter (33-foot) flood to the mix, you’re taking on nature in a big way. Despite these challenges, an interdisciplinary research effort aims to connect a wireless network of 1,000 automated multi-sensor biodiversity monitoring modules in the western Amazon basin over the next five years. An international team of researchers believes these units will provide an unprecedented understanding of the basin’s natural diversity, through collection and sharing of information from deep in the forest. The Amazon&#8217;s apex predator, a jaguar, patrols a river&#8217;s beach in Brazil. Image by Charles J. Sharp via Wikimedia Commons, CC 4.0. “Remote sensing satellites and science aircraft provide a wealth of data about broad changes in forest cover, deforestation and land use, but these methods reveal almost nothing about the true story of biodiversity beneath the forest canopy,” Emiliano Esterci Ramalho, from the Mamirauá Institute in northern Brazil, said in a statement. Initial testing Ramalho coordinates the Providence Project, which installed its first 11 prototype units in April 2018 in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve. Researchers set out 10 units — each containing a camera trap, a thermal sensor, and a microphone — to capture images and sounds of animals in tall trees. To capture underwater audio, they placed another unit, with underwater microphones, along the Amanã River that cuts through this 11,000-square-kilometer (4,250-square-mile)&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/12/a-monitoring-network-in-the-amazon-captures-a-flood-of-data/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-213320</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Virtual meetup highlights networked sensor technology for parks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/virtual-meetup-highlights-networked-sensor-technology-for-parks/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/virtual-meetup-highlights-networked-sensor-technology-for-parks/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Nov 2018 21:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Artificial Intelligence, cameras, Crime, Drones, Human-wildlife Conflict, Law Enforcement, Monitoring, Parks, Poaching, Protected Areas, Sensors, Technology, Wildlife, Wildlife Rangers, and Wildtech]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Technology users and tech developers don’t always talk directly to each other, but they should. The relatively small size of the scientific/conservation community and its need for a particular suite of features, such as ruggedness, waterproofing, long battery life, small size, ease of use, and sometimes even camouflage — at a low cost — can [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Technology users and tech developers don’t always talk directly to each other, but they should. The relatively small size of the scientific/conservation community and its need for a particular suite of features, such as ruggedness, waterproofing, long battery life, small size, ease of use, and sometimes even camouflage — at a low cost — can impede companies’ development of suitable systems. This, in turn, restricts the use of technology in the field. To encourage communication between users and developers of technology for conservation, the WILDLABS platform began a series of virtual meetups earlier this month. The webinars feature engineers and other tech developers presenting some aspect of their conservation-related work, and listeners are encouraged to offer questions and comments. Anyone with internet access can join the meetups or watch recordings of them on Zoom that include notes on key points from the discussion. A grazing white rhino and calf in Kenya&#8217;s Nakuru National Park, like those of an increasing number of African parks, benefit from protection from imaging technology and rangers on the ground. Image by Sue Palminteri/Mongabay. The first meetup on November 8, 2018 introduced three engineers who described their projects using networked sensors for improving security and reducing human-wildlife conflict. The speakers discussed the project aims, the technologies they’ve developed and deployed, and the challenges of working in remote conservation areas. Engineer Eric Becker spoke about World Wildlife Fund’s Wildlife Crime Technology Project (WCTP) and some general lessons he has learned in deploying technology in remote areas. Through&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/virtual-meetup-highlights-networked-sensor-technology-for-parks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-212955</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Pod-cast: New app streams whale songs for web users in real time</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/pod-cast-new-app-streams-whale-songs-for-web-users-in-real-time/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/pod-cast-new-app-streams-whale-songs-for-web-users-in-real-time/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>19 Nov 2018 14:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=212413</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Pacific Northwest and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Artificial Intelligence, Bioacoustics, Citizen Science, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Noise Pollution, Oceans, Open-source, Research, Sensors, Solutions, Technology, Whales, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers have developed a web-based application to enable citizen scientists to listen to the sounds of killer whales in the northeast Pacific in real time. Publicly launched on Nov. 1, after several months of testing, the app livestreams audio from underwater microphones, called hydrophones, located in the Salish Sea off the U.S. state of Washington, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Researchers have developed a web-based application to enable citizen scientists to listen to the sounds of killer whales in the northeast Pacific in real time. Publicly launched on Nov. 1, after several months of testing, the app livestreams audio from underwater microphones, called hydrophones, located in the Salish Sea off the U.S. state of Washington, through the internet to a user’s laptop, phone or tablet. The Orcasound project produced the app to help raise awareness and understanding about ocean noise, and where and when humans and whales overlap, by broadening the audience listening for the signals of known pods of killer whales (Orcinus orca) and other novel sounds, such as other marine animals or human activity. A killer whale, or orca, &#8220;porpoising&#8221; in the Hood Canal waterway, south of the Salish Sea in the U.S. state of Washington. Leaping out of the water can actually be energy-efficient for marine animals traveling at high speeds. Image by Minette Layne via Wikimedia Commons CC 2.0. Scott Veirs, an oceanographer and bioacoustics specialist, and his father, Val Veirs, a physicist, lead the project, which started with funding from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The project’s partners now include United States and Canadian fisheries agencies and several nonprofit organizations, including scientists who have studied ocean sounds in the region for more than 15 years to call attention to the damage caused by noise pollution in the ocean. The younger Veirs, Orcasound’s lead researcher, presented the new web app and spoke about&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/pod-cast-new-app-streams-whale-songs-for-web-users-in-real-time/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-212413</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How porpoise sounds helped researchers test acoustic devices</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/how-porpoise-sounds-helped-researchers-test-acoustic-devices/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/how-porpoise-sounds-helped-researchers-test-acoustic-devices/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>02 Nov 2018 11:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[United Kingdom]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Bioacoustics, data, Marine Mammals, Monitoring, Oceans, Sensors, Surveying, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
											<description>
							<![CDATA[An international team of scientists has developed a method to assess the detection area of acoustic monitoring devices. These instruments, which can record the calls and other sounds of animals 24/7, have enhanced research on various cryptic yet vocal species, including bats, birds, frogs, bees, and tigers. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) units also work underwater [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An international team of scientists has developed a method to assess the detection area of acoustic monitoring devices. These instruments, which can record the calls and other sounds of animals 24/7, have enhanced research on various cryptic yet vocal species, including bats, birds, frogs, bees, and tigers. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) units also work underwater to detect the presence or abundance of species such as whales and dolphins. An acoustic device counts only those animals that vocalize within the range of its sound detectors, missing any animals that call beyond its reach. However, few studies have quantified the percentage of vocalizations in a given area that these devices actually capture. A harbor porpoise surfacing in waters off Denmark. These small cetaceans usually stay close to coastal areas, estuaries and harbors. Image by Erik Christensen via Wikimedia Commons, CC 3.0. &#8220;Although animals can be recorded using acoustic devices,” team lead Hanna Nuuttila, the SEACAMS scientific officer at Swansea University&#8217;s College of Science, said in a statement, “it can be very difficult to quantify the exact ranges and detection areas for acoustic data loggers, something which is crucial if acoustic data is to be used to estimate animal abundance.” The research team played recordings of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) vocalizations at a range of volumes and distances from a set of PAM devices known as cetacean click loggers (C-PODs), to estimate how these two factors affect the ability of these units to record the sounds. They published their findings last week in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/11/how-porpoise-sounds-helped-researchers-test-acoustic-devices/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-211791</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Decoding the language of bats key to their conservation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/decoding-the-language-of-bats-key-for-their-conservation/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/decoding-the-language-of-bats-key-for-their-conservation/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>08 Oct 2018 16:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Javier Lyonnet]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=210942</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Uruguay]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Artificial Intelligence, Bats, Bioacoustics, Conservation, data, Energy, Monitoring, Open-source, Research, Sensors, Surveying, Technology, Wildtech, and Wind Power]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[South American bats speak dialects different from those of their North American counterparts. In response, a group of scientists has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm for acoustic identification of bat species in Uruguay. It is available online, under a free license and in open-source code. Moreover, says team leader biologist Germán Botto of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[South American bats speak dialects different from those of their North American counterparts. In response, a group of scientists has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm for acoustic identification of bat species in Uruguay. It is available online, under a free license and in open-source code. Moreover, says team leader biologist Germán Botto of the Universidad de la República de Uruguay, new recordings collected by scientists using the algorithm in wind farm studies will enhance the system’s proficiency in identifying species. With its large range, from Argentina north to Mexico, and ability to survive in human-modified environments, the Argentine brown bat (Eptesicus furinalis) is common and thriving. Image by Karin Schneeberger, Wikimedia Commons, CC 3.0. With its large range, from Argentina north to Mexico, and ability to survive in human-modified environments, the Argentine brown bat (Eptesicus furinalis) is common and thriving. Image by Karin Schneeberger, Wikimedia Commons, CC 3.0. What prompted their efforts? Conservation of the region’s flying animals. “Windmill farms are a menace for birds…and bats,” Botto told Mongabay. The use of acoustics in the country, starting in 2013, “gives us much more power for the environmental evaluation and monitoring of windmill farms,” he added. The design of a machine learning algorithm to predict bat species present based on their calls provides a standard tool for all the teams that work on environmental impact studies in wind farms. “We began developing this work according to the local reality,&#8221; Botto said. In recent years, the government in Uruguay has promoted&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/10/decoding-the-language-of-bats-key-for-their-conservation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-210942</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cool birds don’t sing: Study automates acoustic monitoring of songbird migration</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/cool-birds-dont-sing-study-automates-acoustic-monitoring-of-songbird-migration/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/cool-birds-dont-sing-study-automates-acoustic-monitoring-of-songbird-migration/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Jun 2018 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=207688</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Alaska, Arctic, and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Adaptation To Climate Change, Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Birds, Climate Change, data, Migration, Monitoring, Research, and Sensors]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s June, and migratory songbirds in the northern hemisphere are at their summer breeding grounds, having traveled thousands of miles from their warm-weather overwintering areas. Birds migrate as far north as the Arctic to take advantage of its large but short-lived surge in insect food and its few predators. The timing of their arrival is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s June, and migratory songbirds in the northern hemisphere are at their summer breeding grounds, having traveled thousands of miles from their warm-weather overwintering areas. Birds migrate as far north as the Arctic to take advantage of its large but short-lived surge in insect food and its few predators. The timing of their arrival is critical because their breeding cycles must match seasonal food availability for their chicks to survive. Migratory Lapland longspurs endure the cold en route to their breeding grounds. Image by Andy Reago &amp; Chrissy McClarren, CC 2.0 Scientists have shown that as spring temperatures rise, many bird populations are, in fact, migrating north and arriving earlier in the season at their breeding sites, where climate-related shifts in breeding-ground conditions, including environmental conditions and food availability, may help or hinder reproduction of individual species. Most songbirds are too small to carry GPS tracking tags scientists would typically use to follow their migrations north, but they do call intensely once they arrive there in preparation for breeding. To study trends in migration timing, scientists have begun setting out microphones to listen for particular species or the bird diversity at specific sites. Placing numerous relatively inexpensive acoustic listening devices in the field allows researchers to better monitor wildlife communities in remote places and across larger scales than field surveys typically can. Gambel&#8217;s white-crowned sparrows, like this one, prefer woody shrubs. As the Arctic continues to warm, shrubs on Alaska&#8217;s North Slope are expected to overtake open grasslands. That could&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/06/cool-birds-dont-sing-study-automates-acoustic-monitoring-of-songbird-migration/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-207688</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Scientists tackling conservation problems turn to artificial intelligence</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/scientists-tackling-conservation-problems-turn-to-artificial-intelligence/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/scientists-tackling-conservation-problems-turn-to-artificial-intelligence/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>25 May 2018 12:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=207025</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global, United States, and Washington]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Artificial Intelligence, cameras, Conservation Technology, data, Education, Law Enforcement, Poaching, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[New technologies are generating far more information than ever before to help scientists assess and predict the health and behavior of species and ecosystems, as well as the threats they face. These include cryptic cameras, acoustic sensors, satellite imagery and citizen science apps. Now, researchers and conservation practitioners analyzing large data sets are exploring artificial intelligence, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[New technologies are generating far more information than ever before to help scientists assess and predict the health and behavior of species and ecosystems, as well as the threats they face. These include cryptic cameras, acoustic sensors, satellite imagery and citizen science apps. Now, researchers and conservation practitioners analyzing large data sets are exploring artificial intelligence, or AI—the ability of a machine or a computer program to think and learn—to help them process, analyze and interpret data to monitor ecosystems and predict results. Computer systems already exist that can host huge amounts of data, use AI with increasingly “smart” algorithms to classify data from the various types of sensors used by scientists, apply modeling results to create reproducible code, and create user interfaces to allow people to monitor natural systems and make predictions with high accuracy. By training computer algorithms with a subset of available data, machines can now learn what they should do for a given challenge—such as classify photos by the species found in them, identify areas of a satellite image containing water or intact forest, or translate speech from one language to another­—based on human feedback and data collected from previous experience. Classification of animal images uses pattern recognition software and machine learning to recognize patterns of spots, stripes, whiskers, and other natural markings. Image credit: Sue Palminteri The applications for AI in conservation science are myriad: Fei Fang, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, leads a group applying game theory and machine learning to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/scientists-tackling-conservation-problems-turn-to-artificial-intelligence/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-207025</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Vibrations from elephant calls and movements reflect distinct behaviors, study says</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/vibrations-from-elephant-calls-and-movements-reflect-distinct-behaviors-study-says/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/vibrations-from-elephant-calls-and-movements-reflect-distinct-behaviors-study-says/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 May 2018 16:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Elephants, Open-source, Research, Sensors, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The well-known trumpeting call of an elephant indicates anger or alarm. The more common but less familiar rumbles are a range of low-frequency sounds that elephants use to communicate different types of messages to one another. Scientists have found that rumbles travel through both the air and the ground. These low-frequency calls create seismic waves—vibrations [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The well-known trumpeting call of an elephant indicates anger or alarm. The more common but less familiar rumbles are a range of low-frequency sounds that elephants use to communicate different types of messages to one another. Scientists have found that rumbles travel through both the air and the ground. These low-frequency calls create seismic waves—vibrations occurring underground and along the earth’s surface—which, depending on the soil type, can travel farther than the counterpart waves we hear moving through the air. Elephant rumbles are low-frequency vocalizations that can travel up to several kilometers and could enable large dispersed herds like this one in Kenya to stay in touch. Photo credit: Sue Palminteri A new study has found different elephant behaviors created distinct seismic signals and that both the local geological structure and low-frequency human-generated noise may affect transmission of these signals. Ground versus airborne sound waves When an elephant, rabbit, or person walks, we create seismic waves, the heavier and faster the walk, the greater the strength of the wave. Seismic wave transmission is also affected by physical factors, such as the underlying soil type and other noises in the same frequency range. In areas with minimal human seismic noise, the frequencies around and below 20 Hz characteristic of elephant vocalizations are relatively noise-free.  Noises at this frequency, also known as infrasound, are generally too low for us to hear. Research by Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell of Stanford University has shown that elephants in Namibia can both detect seismic signals and distinguish alarm&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/vibrations-from-elephant-calls-and-movements-reflect-distinct-behaviors-study-says/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-206666</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Noisy reefs help young fish find their home</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/noisy-reefs-help-young-fish-find-their-home/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/noisy-reefs-help-young-fish-find-their-home/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>04 May 2018 02:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=206429</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Australia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Coral Bleaching, Coral Reefs, Migration, Ocean Warming, Oceans, Research, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
						</topic-tags>
					
					
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							<![CDATA[Fish talk. They boom, buzz, croak, and chatter. They even create a dawn chorus similar to birds. Shrimp vocalize too, by snapping and popping. A reef’s soundscape—the variety of sounds reef-dwelling animals collectively make—reflects the abundance and diversity of the reef’s inhabitants. Healthy reefs have a loud and complex soundscape, which larval and young reef [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Fish talk. They boom, buzz, croak, and chatter. They even create a dawn chorus similar to birds. Shrimp vocalize too, by snapping and popping. A reef’s soundscape—the variety of sounds reef-dwelling animals collectively make—reflects the abundance and diversity of the reef’s inhabitants. Healthy reefs have a loud and complex soundscape, which larval and young reef fish that start life as eggs floating on ocean currents use to find and settle in suitable habitat. Like an orchestra missing the horns or string section, reefs degraded by storms and coral bleaching lose both the volume and complexity of their song, making them less inviting to this next generation of reef fish. A diversity of fish species on a coral reef in Sabah, Malaysia. A healthy coral reef supports many species of fish, as well sea turtles, soft corals, and invertebrates such as starfish, squid, and shrimp. Image credit: Sue Palminteri/Mongabay. Studies have shown that coral structure and presence of living corals are important for survival of reef fish communities, and a diversity of reef fish, in turn, support coral survival and facilitate their recovery from devastation. Parrot fish and other herbivores eat the algae that can cover and kill corals; sharks, groupers, and other carnivores maintain stable populations of the herbivores, and nearly all become food for other organisms, which retains nutrients in the system. We know that coral bleaching – the loss of energy-producing algae from corals when water becomes too warm – kills some corals and thus simplifies and degrades&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/noisy-reefs-help-young-fish-find-their-home/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-206429</doi>				</item>
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					<title>First record of ultrasound communication in the mysterious Sunda colugo</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/first-record-of-ultrasound-communication-in-the-mysterious-sunda-colugo/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/first-record-of-ultrasound-communication-in-the-mysterious-sunda-colugo/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>01 May 2018 08:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Shreya Dasgupta]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=206322</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Animals, Bioacoustics, Biodiversity, Conservation, Environment, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Rainforests, Research, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[In October last year, a team of scientists were out on a night hike surveying bats in the forests of the Penang Hill in the Malaysian state of Penang when their microphone picked up some unusual ultrasound calls &#8212; calls that were very different from the ultrasound calls of bats that the scientists were out [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In October last year, a team of scientists were out on a night hike surveying bats in the forests of the Penang Hill in the Malaysian state of Penang when their microphone picked up some unusual ultrasound calls &#8212; calls that were very different from the ultrasound calls of bats that the scientists were out to record. To the surprise of the researchers, the calls seemed to be coming from the Sunda colugo or the Sunda flying lemur (Galeopterus variegatus), a nocturnal mammal that&#8217;s not a lemur and does not fly. Instead, this tree-dwelling mammal glides from tree to tree using a gliding membrane that extends across its body. Until recently, the Sunda colugo was only known to produce calls in the audible range. But the calls recorded in the Penang Hill forests are the first record of ultrasound communication in these animals, researchers report in a new study published in Bioacoustics. &#8220;At first, when we recorded the calls, we could not see which animal it was from,&#8221; lead author Priscilla Miard of the University of Science, Malaysia, who was part of a 117-member team that surveyed Penang Hill&#8217;s biodiversity last year, said in an email. &#8220;One recording was really close to us and when I looked up I saw a colugo just a few meters in front of us on the tree trunk. After few seconds looking at it I understood the ultrasound was coming from this individual. I was amazed! It made a lot of sense but we needed more&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/05/first-record-of-ultrasound-communication-in-the-mysterious-sunda-colugo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-206322</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Understanding bird behavior key to developing risk reduction technologies</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/developing-bird-risk-reduction-technologies/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Apr 2018 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Danielle Bettermann]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=205758</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[United States]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Alternative Energy, Birds, early warning, Energy, Human-wildlife Conflict, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Years of studying birds and their relationship with their environment taught John Swaddle, professor of biology at the College of William &#38; Mary, the importance of understanding animals’ instincts and behaviors when developing methods for improving human-wildlife interactions. Swaddle used what he knew about different bird species’ tendencies to create a pair of systems that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Years of studying birds and their relationship with their environment taught John Swaddle, professor of biology at the College of William &amp; Mary, the importance of understanding animals’ instincts and behaviors when developing methods for improving human-wildlife interactions. Swaddle used what he knew about different bird species’ tendencies to create a pair of systems that minimize collisions with tall man-made structures, such as skyscrapers or wind turbines, and keep birds away from areas where their presence may be unwelcome or a hazard, such as on farmland or airports. He presented his findings in February at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Austin, Texas. In his presentation, Swaddle introduced two different technologies, the Sonic Net and the Acoustic Lighthouse. A bald eagle surveys the landscape from a treetop. Eagles and other large birds seeking a high perch or looking down for prey below may accidentally collide with wind turbine blades. Photo credit: Martin Keus, courtesy of Quoddy Tours CC 2.0 Testing Sonic Nets to remove birds from risky areas When working on the Sonic Net, Swaddle kept the long-standing practice of scarecrows on farmland in mind. He recognized that scarecrows only temporarily discourage birds from visiting an area because birds learn that they are not a real threat. “Birds are pretty smart, they habituate, and if the threat is not real they know and they stick around,” Swaddle said. “Those kinds of technologies just show diminishing returns, no matter how high-tech the technology gets. Birds will still habituate&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/04/developing-bird-risk-reduction-technologies/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How to build a Guardian: students learn about making technology work in the field</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/how-to-build-a-guardian-students-learn-about-making-technology-work-in-the-field/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/how-to-build-a-guardian-students-learn-about-making-technology-work-in-the-field/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>23 Mar 2018 06:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, California, Costa Rica, Indonesia, and Peru]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Conservation, Illegal Logging, Indigenous Reserves, Mobile, Monitoring, Rainforests, Technology, Traditional People, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Hundreds of students from science and technology programs around the city of Los Angeles, California have begun participating in a hands-on effort to apply ingenuity and technology to protect the world’s rainforests. The NGO Rainforest Connection (RFCx) has developed a “Planet Guardians” program to directly involve tech-minded students in nature conservation while building their skills [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Hundreds of students from science and technology programs around the city of Los Angeles, California have begun participating in a hands-on effort to apply ingenuity and technology to protect the world’s rainforests. The NGO Rainforest Connection (RFCx) has developed a “Planet Guardians” program to directly involve tech-minded students in nature conservation while building their skills and creativity. The science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) students will build devices RFCx calls “Guardians”—portable acoustic monitoring devices that the group installs high up in a rainforest tree, usually around a reserve’s perimeter or along roads, where they listen to and record the sounds of the forest around them. A Guardian at work high in the rainforest canopy. The petals of this techno-flower are solar panels protected from the rain and humidity, which also shade the smartphone inside. Photo credit: Google The students will construct the Guardian devices from recycled smartphones newly armed with Google’s open-source machine-learning framework, TensorFlow. Even phones several years old have substantial computing power that can run sophisticated software (RFCx accepts phone donations). Guardians as works in progress. Photo credit: Google Each device collects and scans the continuous stream of sound in the roughly 300 hectares (740 acres) around it. If the software identifies various noises associated with human intrusion—such as chain saws, trucks, and gunshots—it alerts local rangers in real-time who can then respond on the ground. The solar panels used to power the devices enable them to run 24 hours a day for months in the rainforest. Workshops&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/03/how-to-build-a-guardian-students-learn-about-making-technology-work-in-the-field/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-205077</doi>				</item>
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					<title>10 top conservation tech innovations from 2017</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/10-top-conservation-tech-innovations-from-2017/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Jan 2018 17:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Camera Trapping, Citizen Science, Communication, Conservation Technology, Crowdsourcing, data, DNA, Drones, Genetics, Mapping, Mobile, Monitoring, Portable, Research, Satellite Imagery, Sensors, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Technology is changing how we investigate and protect planet Earth. The increased portability and reduced cost of data collection and synthesis tools, for instance — from visual and acoustic sensors to DNA sequencers, online mapping platforms, and apps for sharing photos — have rapidly transformed how we research and conserve the natural world. These tools [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Technology is changing how we investigate and protect planet Earth. The increased portability and reduced cost of data collection and synthesis tools, for instance — from visual and acoustic sensors to DNA sequencers, online mapping platforms, and apps for sharing photos — have rapidly transformed how we research and conserve the natural world. The still-intact Amazon rainforest in southeastern Peru. Photo credit: Amazon Aerobotany These tools afford research and conservation projects across the globe an unprecedented capacity to access, collect, organize, analyze, and convey information. But these new tools are being developed and deployed so quickly, it can be hard to stay on top of them all. Below, we review some of 2017’s conservation tech trends that have helped researchers and conservationists better understand their species and systems of interest, monitor their status, and take actions to conserve them. We hope Mongabay-Wildtech’s coverage of their experiences will help readers advance their own projects and priorities. A pair of saki monkeys approach an arboreal camera trap in the Peruvian rainforest. Photo credit: SCBI-CCS Understand target species and systems 1. Camera traps are remote cameras that take photos when a sensor is triggered by the movement of an animal or person and, increasingly, send the image in real-time to the operator. They have helped researchers document the presence of elusive wildlife  for decades, but innovative scientists have begun to apply this technology to new environments and species. The installation of camera traps in trees, for example, has successfully documented canopy use by&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2018/01/10-top-conservation-tech-innovations-from-2017/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New resource for planning camera trapping, acoustic monitoring, and LiDAR projects</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/new-resource-for-camera-trapping-acoustic-and-lidar-projects/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Nov 2017 21:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri (1965-2019)]]>
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						<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Analysis, Camera Trapping, cameras, data, LiDAR, Monitoring, Remote Sensing, Sensors, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A conservation technology team at WWF-UK has produced a series of best-practice guidelines for three key data collection techniques—camera trapping, passive acoustic monitoring, and remote sensing through Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). The group consulted experts in each method to compile the extensive peer-edited information now freely available through a website and downloadable guidance documents. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A conservation technology team at WWF-UK has produced a series of best-practice guidelines for three key data collection techniques—camera trapping, passive acoustic monitoring, and remote sensing through Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). The group consulted experts in each method to compile the extensive peer-edited information now freely available through a website and downloadable guidance documents. Paul Glover-Kapfer, WWF-UK’s Conservation Technology adviser, explained in an email to Mongabay-Wildtech, “We saw a lack of accessible information as one of the primary barriers to the effective use of conservation technologies. Paywall restrictions coupled with the high technical complexity and scattered nature of that information contributed to that barrier, and the downloadable guidelines and website are our attempt to breach it.” Arunachal macaque caught on camera in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary, India. Photo credit: Nandini Velho CC 3.0 Online tech basics The website briefly introduces each technique—acoustic monitoring, camera trapping, or LiDAR—and where and how it is used. It also answers some specific Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about how the relevant technology works, how the data are collected and analyzed, and how it compares to similar techniques. An Assessment for each method takes readers through an interactive series of questions to determine their level of knowledge of the technology and goals for using it in the field. It uses the reader’s answers to provide Instant Advice on deploying the technology to match the project goals, status, and location. Options for learning about three key data collection techniques&#8211;camera trapping, LiDAR, and acoustic monitoring&#8211; on the Conservatioin&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/11/new-resource-for-camera-trapping-acoustic-and-lidar-projects/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Measuring fish abundance through acoustics: spawning aggregations are key to improving fishery management plans</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/researchers-measure-fish-abundance-using-acoustics/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Aug 2017 11:13:25 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Danielle Bettermann]]>
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						<![CDATA[Dbettermann]]>
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							<![CDATA[United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Acoustic, Analysis, Communication, Conservation, data, Marine, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Just as humans and many terrestrial animals do, marine creatures use sound for communication in breeding, feeding, social structure maintenance and survival. However, the sounds produced by marine species have also put them at risk of capture by commercial fisheries. Scientists have recognized over 100 families of marine fish that produce sound. Many fish species [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Just as humans and many terrestrial animals do, marine creatures use sound for communication in breeding, feeding, social structure maintenance and survival. However, the sounds produced by marine species have also put them at risk of capture by commercial fisheries. Scientists have recognized over 100 families of marine fish that produce sound. Many fish species produce species-specific calls while mating, and the populations aggregate during spawning events. Aggregations enhance the sound’s volume. Fishers use listening devices to detect the sounds produced by the masses of fish to pinpoint the fishes’ location, making it easier to catch large numbers. Doctoral student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Timothy Rowell and his colleagues within the Marine Biology Research division published a study in June 2017 in which they adapted the way that the sounds were used. Rather than exploiting the population by catching the aggregated fish, they located the fish spawning aggregations (FSAs) to measure the abundance for conversation purposes. “As a group, we feel that researchers and managers need to greatly improve our understanding of the complex life histories of fishes and develop better, more efficient ways to monitor their presence and abundances,” Rowell said in an interview with Mongabay-Wildtech. Harvested Gulf corvina fish are loaded off a fishing boat. Photo credit: the Gulf Corvina Marine Program. The team studied the Gulf corvina (Cynoscion othonopterus) fishery in the Colorado River Delta in the northern region of the Gulf of California, which harvests the species during its spawning aggregations. According to Rowell,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2017/08/researchers-measure-fish-abundance-using-acoustics/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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