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					<title>New Zealand put fishing boats under camera surveillance. Will it stay the course?</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/new-zealand-put-fishing-boats-under-camera-surveillance-will-it-stay-the-course/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/new-zealand-put-fishing-boats-under-camera-surveillance-will-it-stay-the-course/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Sep 2026 14:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
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							<![CDATA[New Zealand, Oceania, Pacific Islands, and Polynesia]]>
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							<![CDATA[cameras, Conservation, Environment, Fisheries, Fishing, Marine, Marine Conservation, Monitoring, Oceans, and Technology]]>
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							<![CDATA[NAPIER/DUNEDIN, Aotearoa New Zealand — In 2016, a scandal engulfed Aotearoa New Zealand’s fisheries regulator. Leaked documents showed that the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) had found, during investigative operations conducted in prior years, systematic illegal discarding of low-value fish as well as other violations, such as failing to report the catch of an endangered [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[NAPIER/DUNEDIN, Aotearoa New Zealand — In 2016, a scandal engulfed Aotearoa New Zealand’s fisheries regulator. Leaked documents showed that the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) had found, during investigative operations conducted in prior years, systematic illegal discarding of low-value fish as well as other violations, such as failing to report the catch of an endangered Hector’s dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori), on commercial vessels off the South Island — and elected not to prosecute or inform the public of the findings. The controversy raised a question that conservationists the world over have long asked about commercial fishing: what’s happening on vessels when no one is watching? In the years since, the MPI has mandated onboard cameras across most of the country’s inshore fleet, which operates close to the coast, alongside other forms of electronic monitoring. The rollout, aimed at monitoring catch, discards, protected species interactions, and the use of mitigation devices, has put New Zealand near the leading edge internationally in the use of onboard cameras. This comes as fisheries managers across the world are discussing the use of electronic monitoring as a complement to, or even an imperfect substitute for, the onboard work of fisheries observers, who collect scientific data and report on compliance with rules. Yet electronic monitoring has its detractors, including even Shane Jones, the politician who oversees Fisheries New Zealand (FNZ), a branch of the MPI. He took office following a 2023 general election, after the camera system rollout was already underway, as a member of the conservative&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/new-zealand-put-fishing-boats-under-camera-surveillance-will-it-stay-the-course/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-329241</doi>				</item>
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					<title>A ‘lost’ Philippine pigeon reappears after 20 years — but its forest is disappearing</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/a-lost-philippine-pigeon-reappears-after-20-years-but-its-forest-is-disappearing/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/a-lost-philippine-pigeon-reappears-after-20-years-but-its-forest-is-disappearing/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Sep 2026 17:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Keith Anthony Fabro]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Global, Philippines, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, Forests, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Technology, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[A camera trap on the Philippine island of Mindoro has photographed one of the country’s rarest birds, confirming that the critically endangered Mindoro bleeding-heart pigeon still survives in the wild. Captured in August in the Puerto Galera rainforest, the image is the first confirmed photograph of the species Gallicolumba platenae in two decades, according to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A camera trap on the Philippine island of Mindoro has photographed one of the country’s rarest birds, confirming that the critically endangered Mindoro bleeding-heart pigeon still survives in the wild. Captured in August in the Puerto Galera rainforest, the image is the first confirmed photograph of the species Gallicolumba platenae in two decades, according to the nonprofit organization Center for Conservation Innovation Ph Inc. (CCIPH). “For an extremely rare and secretive species, a single image can carry enormous weight,” CCIPH researchers wrote in a Sept. 3 announcement. “It confirms that the bird continues to survive within the landscape.” Juan Carlos Gonzalez, an ornithologist and curator for birds at the Museum of Natural History at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, independently confirmed that the image shows a Mindoro bleeding-heart. “This record not only proves that this very rare species continues to persist in these steep rainforests, but solidifies the importance of Puerto Galera as a UNESCO biosphere reserve and an important sanctuary for this critically endangered species,” Gonzalez told Mongabay by email. Mindoro Bleeding-heart captured via camera trap. Image courtesy of CCIPH. Alex Berryman, who oversees species conservation assessments for Asia at the NGO BirdLife International, also separately confirmed the identification. “There is no doubt that this refers to a Mindoro bleeding-heart,” Berryman told Mongabay by email. Berryman said the orange-red spot on the bird’s otherwise white chest, together with the iridescent green plumage on its head and neck, make it readily identifiable. Gonzalez also pointed to its blue-green&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/a-lost-philippine-pigeon-reappears-after-20-years-but-its-forest-is-disappearing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-328564</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Koala on the road? AI signs could alert drivers in real time</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/koala-on-the-road-ai-signs-could-alert-drivers-in-real-time/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 Mar 2026 15:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
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						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia and Oceania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Artificial Intelligence, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Endangered Species, Environment, Mammals, Marsupials, Roadkill, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new AI-powered camera system could potentially make road crossings less of a nightmare for koalas. Scientists have developed a camera that can be incorporated into smart road signs to warn passengers about koalas crossing the roads. A prototype of the technology captured and recorded a koala crossing a road in real time in the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new AI-powered camera system could potentially make road crossings less of a nightmare for koalas. Scientists have developed a camera that can be incorporated into smart road signs to warn passengers about koalas crossing the roads. A prototype of the technology captured and recorded a koala crossing a road in real time in the Australian state of Queensland, validating the methodology for the first time. Developed by scientists at Griffith University in Queensland, the camera is an expansion of previous work where the scientists built a database to detect koalas crossing roads. The Australian government has declared koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) an endangered species in Queensland, New South Wales and the Australia Capital Territory. Population counts of these marsupials are hard to maintain because they usually live high up in trees and are nocturnal animals. “They can be hard to see,” Douglas Kerlin, senior research fellow at Griffith University’s School of Environment and Science, told Monday in an email interview. “They are distributed across such a vast area that it is difficult to really know how many there are with any certainty.” Koalas face threats to their survival from multiple quarters. While deforestation and urbanization have destroyed eucalyptus forests, their primary habitats, they also face the risk of diseases. To make matters worse, the deadly Australian bushfires of 2019 and 2020 decimated their populations across the country. As human encroachment into forests rise, these animals often have to cross roads to travel across their fragmented habitats. As a result, vehicle&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/koala-on-the-road-ai-signs-could-alert-drivers-in-real-time/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Penguins are breeding much earlier in a warming Antarctic, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/penguins-are-breeding-much-earlier-in-a-warming-antarctic-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Feb 2026 17:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[Antarctica and Southern Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biology, Birds, cameras, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, Environment, Global Warming, Ocean Warming, Penguins, Whales, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Penguins are dramatically shifting their breeding season as the Antarctic peninsula warms, a recent study finds. From 2012 to 2022, researchers used remote cameras to examine the timing of breeding for three penguin species across 37 colonies on the Antarctic peninsula and surrounding islands. They tracked their ‘settlement date’: when the penguins began continuously occupying [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Penguins are dramatically shifting their breeding season as the Antarctic peninsula warms, a recent study finds. From 2012 to 2022, researchers used remote cameras to examine the timing of breeding for three penguin species across 37 colonies on the Antarctic peninsula and surrounding islands. They tracked their ‘settlement date’: when the penguins began continuously occupying their nesting zones. The study, led by the citizen-science collective Penguin Watch at the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University, U.K., was published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Over that 10-year period, gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) began their breeding season an average of 13 days earlier in the year, though for some colonies, it was more than three weeks. Chinstrap (P. antarcticus) and Adélie (P. adeliae) penguins settled into their colonies an average of 10.4 and 10.2 days, respectively, ahead of their schedule a decade ago. These breeding changes are amongst the most extreme yet recorded for any bird — and likely any vertebrate — in response to climate change, the study notes. “This is a huge advance and an incredibly fast one … and that&#8217;s what surprised us,” says Ignacio Juarez Martínez, a biologist and the study’s lead author who conducted the research as part of his PhD at the University of Oxford. “It&#8217;s literally a world record.” Gentoo colony at Neko Harbour, on the Antarctic peninsula. Gentoo penguins are the least ice-tolerant of the three species studied — which also included Adélie and chinstrap penguins. They are expanding their range southwards&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/02/penguins-are-breeding-much-earlier-in-a-warming-antarctic-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-313994</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Primatology goes high tech — from bioacoustics to drones &#038; AI</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/primatology-goes-high-tech-from-bioacoustics-to-drones-ai/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/primatology-goes-high-tech-from-bioacoustics-to-drones-ai/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>21 Oct 2025 17:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Manuel Fonseca]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Apes, Artificial Intelligence, Bioacoustics, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Drones, Endangered Species, Environment, Fellows, Forests, Monkeys, Primates, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Riding in a helicopter, Fabiano Melo, with the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, searched for the elusive northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus), a large monkey in the northern Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Flying over evergreen canopies with trees as tall as buildings, the researchers tried to spot light brown monkeys moving between branches. Finally, after almost [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Riding in a helicopter, Fabiano Melo, with the Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil, searched for the elusive northern muriqui (Brachyteles hypoxanthus), a large monkey in the northern Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Flying over evergreen canopies with trees as tall as buildings, the researchers tried to spot light brown monkeys moving between branches. Finally, after almost one hour, they found one. Seeing the helicopter, the monkey started shaking the branches fiercely. It then tried to move out of sight, jumping from branch to branch as if doing parkour. At the same time, Melo took video of the monkey’s agile movements as it disappeared into the canopy. Even though the animal got away easily, the researchers now had an idea of where to look for them. “The problem is that they have very low densities &#8230; and if you go inside the forest and try to track animals [by] walking, it&#8217;s almost impossible to find them,” Melo told Mongabay. Primatologists — scientists who study nonhuman primates such as apes, monkeys and lemurs — once considered the northern muriqui among the world’s 25 most endangered primates. Habitat loss, isolated populations and hunting have made this elusive species critically endangered. If Melo wanted to find the muriquis to understand their distribution, he needed to improve his tactics fast. New technologies gave Melo a possible solution: fewer helicopters, more drones. In 2017, Melo started to build the “dronequi,” a customized drone with high-definition and thermal cameras, allowing him to find and follow the monkeys more&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/primatology-goes-high-tech-from-bioacoustics-to-drones-ai/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-307996</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Indigenous myths reveal Amazon&#8217;s past truths: Interview with Stéphen Rostain</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/indigenous-myths-reveal-amazons-past-truths-interview-with-stephen-rostain/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Oct 2025 14:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Peter Speetjens]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Ecuador, French Guiana, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ancient Civilizations, Anthropology, Climate, Conservation, Culture, Drought, Environment, History, Indigenous Peoples, LiDAR, Mapping, and Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Now a leading archaeologist, Rostain was discouraged at first. “No one is interested in archaeology of the Amazon.”]]>
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							<![CDATA[Born in the French city of Brest in 1962, archaeologist Stéphen Rostain has worked in the Amazon for more than 40 years, primarily in French Guiana and Ecuador. He has authored or co-authored more than 450 publications on the rainforest’s past and present, including some 45 books. In January 2024, Rostain made a big splash as the lead author of a Science paper on the Upano Valley’s “urban garden culture” in the eastern Ecuadorian Amazon. It led to an avalanche of headlines around the world, many of which overly claimed a “lost city” had been found, and sparked new interest in Amazon archaeology. “I thought perhaps 10 journalists would contact me for an interview. But I did 10 to 20 interviews a day,” Rostain told Mongabay. As director of research at the French Institute for Scientific Research, Rostain isn’t very positive about the future of the Amazon. As deforestation continues and global temperatures continue to rise, he said the Amazon has already reached a turning point and is on its way to partially becoming a savanna. The profound changes in Western thinking about the rainforest that have taken place over the past decades offer a glimmer of hope. This includes the shift in our perception of the Amazon’s past and an end to the centuries of prejudice toward Indigenous people. “Our preconception has long been that the ‘Indians’ are just savages and their oral traditions just crazy legends,” Rostain told Mongabay in June. “Thankfully, that has changed. Twenty years ago,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/indigenous-myths-reveal-amazons-past-truths-interview-with-stephen-rostain/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-306877</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Survey uncovers ‘wildlife treasure’ in Cambodian park — but also signs of threats</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/survey-uncovers-wildlife-treasure-in-cambodian-park-but-also-signs-of-threats/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Jan 2025 21:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Anton L. Delgado]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Critically Endangered Species, Deforestation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Habitat Degradation, Habitat Loss, New Discovery, Plants, Poaching, Protected Areas, Species Discovery, Surveying, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The first biodiversity survey ever conducted in one of northwestern Cambodia’s last forest frontiers has found potentially new-to-science species and recorded direct threats to what conservationists call a “small but precious” ecosystem. Spanning roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) of the Cambodian-Thai border, the 60,000-hectare (148,300-acre) Samlout Multiple Use Area is part of the greater Cardamom [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The first biodiversity survey ever conducted in one of northwestern Cambodia’s last forest frontiers has found potentially new-to-science species and recorded direct threats to what conservationists call a “small but precious” ecosystem. Spanning roughly 40 kilometers (25 miles) of the Cambodian-Thai border, the 60,000-hectare (148,300-acre) Samlout Multiple Use Area is part of the greater Cardamom Mountain Range and straddles the provinces of Battambang and Pailin. Samlout was one of the three first multiple-use areas declared in Cambodia more than 30 years ago. This designation indicates that the management of the protected area is meant to conserve natural resources, while also developing economic activities. Since then, however, the kingdom’s northwest has experienced deforestation at a rate matching a national, decades-long trend of forest loss. Munichan Kung, country director of the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation, told Mongabay that people had previously thought “Samlout was too small, too remote and too degraded. They didn’t believe there was such a treasure of wildlife inside the area.” The Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation — started by U.S. actress Angelina Jolie and named after her adopted son from Cambodia — has funded projects in Samlout for more than two decades. The foundation commissioned the NGO Fauna &amp; Flora to lead surveys on bats, plants, reptiles, amphibians, insects, birds and mammals. The results of the survey found a plethora of wildlife, including more than 140 bird species, nearly 30 mammal species, close to 15 distinct bat species, and 50 types of orchids. These findings set new Cambodia country records, as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/01/survey-uncovers-wildlife-treasure-in-cambodian-park-but-also-signs-of-threats/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-293135</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Satellites and lidar get AI boost to count forest carbon stock worldwide</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/satellites-and-lidar-get-ai-boost-to-count-forest-carbon-stock-worldwide/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/satellites-and-lidar-get-ai-boost-to-count-forest-carbon-stock-worldwide/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>09 Dec 2024 14:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Conservation, Conservation Technology, data, Deforestation, Forest Carbon, Forests, LiDAR, Monitoring, Remote Sensing, Satellite Imagery, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Satellite data have long told us where forests are and how they’re faring. Lidar, laser-based radar mounted on planes or satellites like the International Space Station, has helped us map forests in 3D. A newly launched tool has now thrown artificial intelligence into the mix. Earth-imaging company Planet has combined data from its vast constellation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Satellite data have long told us where forests are and how they’re faring. Lidar, laser-based radar mounted on planes or satellites like the International Space Station, has helped us map forests in 3D. A newly launched tool has now thrown artificial intelligence into the mix. Earth-imaging company Planet has combined data from its vast constellation of satellites with globally available lidar data to build an AI-powered tool that can estimate where and how carbon is stored in remote and inaccessible forests around the world. In quarterly data sets that have a resolution as fine as 3 meters (10 feet), the Forest Carbon Monitoring tool estimates aboveground carbon, tree height, and canopy cover of forests. “It will help us understand aspects of the forest that might not be initially accessible to the naked eye,” Andrew Zolli, chief impact officer at Planet, told Mongabay in a video interview. While satellite images have helped scientists, conservationists and enforcement agencies track how forest cover changes over time, they can’t tell how much carbon a forest stores. Understanding that requires mapping the forest in 3D and measuring aboveground biomass. Lidar sensors that emit laser beams have long played an important role in calculating this. Scientists observe the time it takes for the light to reflect off trees, leaves and branches, and use that to calculate the dimensions of trees. Lidar data, especially from NASA&#8217;s GEDI mission that’s deployed on the ISS and maps forests from space, have been crucial to understanding forest biomass in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/12/satellites-and-lidar-get-ai-boost-to-count-forest-carbon-stock-worldwide/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-291358</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New brown bear ‘stronghold’ in Nepal redraws species’ range map</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/new-brown-bear-stronghold-in-nepal-redraws-species-range-map/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/new-brown-bear-stronghold-in-nepal-redraws-species-range-map/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>31 Oct 2024 16:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhaya Raj Joshi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Nepal, and South Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Bears, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, DNA, Genetics, Mammals, Mountains, and Protected Areas]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — Researchers have discovered brown bears in a part of Nepal not previously known to host the species, prompting a call to protect this area as a bear “stronghold.” The finding, based on camera-trap images, also expands the known range of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Asia. It could also mark out the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[KATHMANDU — Researchers have discovered brown bears in a part of Nepal not previously known to host the species, prompting a call to protect this area as a bear “stronghold.” The finding, based on camera-trap images, also expands the known range of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in Asia. It could also mark out the Limi Valley, in northwestern Nepal, as a “contact zone” between two subspecies of this apex predator, the researchers write in a newly published study. “The bears weren’t the species we primarily set up the camera traps for,” study lead author Naresh Kusi, from the Himalayan Wolves Project, told Mongabay. As part of their research, Kusi and his project team have since 2021 run a network of 61 camera traps across an area in the Limi Valley that’s half the size of London. Since then, they’ve recorded images of species never before confirmed outside Nepal’s protected areas, such as the steppe polecat (Mustela eversmanii), Pallas’s cat (Otocolobus manul) and Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx). A brown bear image from a camera trap in Limi valley in western Nepal. Image courtesy of Naresh Kusi This time around, it’s the brown bear — a species found throughout the Northern Hemisphere, but which is so vanishingly rare in Nepal, at an estimated 20 individuals, that it’s considered critically endangered here. Yet Kusi’s team managed to capture dozens of independent images of brown bears in their camera-trapping surveys. “Although we didn’t estimate the size of the population in Limi Valley, based&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/new-brown-bear-stronghold-in-nepal-redraws-species-range-map/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-289510</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Collar cameras shed light on quirky baboon diet</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/collar-cameras-shed-light-on-quirky-baboon-diet/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/collar-cameras-shed-light-on-quirky-baboon-diet/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>29 May 2024 11:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, South Africa, and Southern Africa]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Mammals, Primates, Research, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[What’s on the menu tonight? For one of the world’s largest species of monkeys, it’s likely to be antelope poop. This was among the findings from a study in which researchers attached collar cameras on chacma baboons (Papio ursinus), native to Southern Africa. Apart from discovering previously unknown foraging behavior, the scientists were also able [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[What’s on the menu tonight? For one of the world’s largest species of monkeys, it’s likely to be antelope poop. This was among the findings from a study in which researchers attached collar cameras on chacma baboons (Papio ursinus), native to Southern Africa. Apart from discovering previously unknown foraging behavior, the scientists were also able to observe the baboons’ interactions with other animals. According to the study published in the International Journal of Primatology, the use of collar cameras gave researchers a “primate-eye perspective” of the animals’ lives. “Typically, in primate behavioral research, people tend to habituate primates to human presence. But by being there, you might bias some of the results in the data you collect,” Ben Walton, co-author of the study and doctoral candidate at the Department of Anthropology at Durham University, U.K., told Mongabay in a video interview. “These cameras take people out of the equation, and you can observe some really detailed aspects of their lives without the effect of human presence.” Primate populations have seen a drastic decline globally, primarily due to rapid habitat loss and indiscriminate hunting. While chacma baboons don’t feature among threatened species, their populations have also plummeted in their primary habitats. As human settlements spread into their habitats, human-baboon conflicts have escalated in recent years. “They go into farmers’ fields and cause economic losses for them, and then are trapped or shot in response,” Walton said. Researchers discovered previously unknown foraging behavior of chacma baboons in South Africa after analyzing footage&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/collar-cameras-shed-light-on-quirky-baboon-diet/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-282593</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘We&#8217;re doing so much with so little’: Interview with WildLabs’ Talia Speaker</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/were-doing-so-much-with-so-little-interview-with-wildlabs-talia-speaker/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/were-doing-so-much-with-so-little-interview-with-wildlabs-talia-speaker/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>06 Feb 2024 12:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, data, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Monitoring, Sensors, Solutions, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[As an undergraduate biology student, Talia Speaker faced several hurdles in using technology in her work. Biology and ecology professors weren’t well-versed with the technical side of things, while those in the computer science and engineering departments didn’t seem to have an interest in biodiversity. “I was a struggling undergrad who was trying to analyze [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As an undergraduate biology student, Talia Speaker faced several hurdles in using technology in her work. Biology and ecology professors weren’t well-versed with the technical side of things, while those in the computer science and engineering departments didn’t seem to have an interest in biodiversity. “I was a struggling undergrad who was trying to analyze species in camera-trap images,” Speaker says. “There really weren’t interdisciplinary programs that I was aware of.” That situation, she says, has changed drastically over the past five years. “So many wildlife conservation projects are using technology in their work, and leveraging it in different ways and thinking about how innovation is playing a role in their organizations,” Speaker, currently a research specialist at conservation technology community WildLabs, tells Mongabay in a video interview. Much of Speaker’s work now focuses on how technology performs when applied in the context of wildlife monitoring and biodiversity conservation. A report published by WildLabs, based on research led by Speaker, looks at how scientists, academics, NGOs and conservationists are using technology in their work. The report analyzes data from a three-year period to identify trends and patterns in the field of conservation technology. Out of the 630 people who participated in surveys for the research, almost all said they used at least one technology tool in their conservation work. Close to 80% of the participants said they used more than two tools. Camera traps and remote sensing were found to be the most widely used tools. Artificial intelligence and its&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/were-doing-so-much-with-so-little-interview-with-wildlabs-talia-speaker/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-278594</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Laos, forest loss and carbon emissions escalate as agriculture intensifies</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/in-laos-forest-loss-and-carbon-emissions-escalate-as-agriculture-intensifies/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Dec 2023 15:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Laos, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Sequestration, Conservation, Crops, data, Deforestation, Environment, Farming, food security, Forest Carbon, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, LiDAR, Montane Forests, Remote Sensing, Research, Satellite Imagery, Subsistence Agriculture, Sustainability, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the government of Laos continues to prioritize a hydropower-heavy agenda to generate export revenues while striving toward greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, it may be overlooking soaring carbon emissions from intact forest loss right under its nose. A new study published in Environmental Research Letters indicates a recent expansion and intensification of shifting cultivation [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the government of Laos continues to prioritize a hydropower-heavy agenda to generate export revenues while striving toward greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, it may be overlooking soaring carbon emissions from intact forest loss right under its nose. A new study published in Environmental Research Letters indicates a recent expansion and intensification of shifting cultivation in Laos, resulting in direct loss of forests, degradation of important carbon sink ecosystems, and substantial increases in carbon emissions. The findings build on research published earlier this year that used satellite data to map the extent of shifting cultivation in Laos between 1991 and 2020, revealing that it affected roughly one-third of the total land area of Laos over the past three decades. Shifting cultivation is a type of rotational farming typically practiced by small-scale subsistence farmers. Also known as swidden agriculture, it involves clearing and burning a plot of land to fertilize the soil for growing crops. After a short period of cultivation, the land is left fallow and the farmer moves on to a new patch, affording the vegetation time to regenerate. “Shifting cultivation is an important land use in the tropics, but it has a number of negative consequences like carbon emissions, biodiversity loss and it can even spread wildfire if it’s not controlled very well,” Shijuan Chen, a postdoctoral associate at Yale University and lead author of both studies, told Mongabay. Recently cleared land within a shifting agriculture system on steep ground in India. Image by Rohitjahnavi via Wikimedia Commons&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/12/in-laos-forest-loss-and-carbon-emissions-escalate-as-agriculture-intensifies/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-276628</doi>				</item>
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					<title>No animals harmed as wildlife specimen collection goes digital in 3D</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/wildlife-specimen-collection-goes-digital-in-3d/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/wildlife-specimen-collection-goes-digital-in-3d/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Nov 2023 02:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Ecuador, Panama, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Amphibians, Animal Behavior, Animals, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Frogs, Research, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Imagine you’re leading an expedition in the depths of a forest. You discover a species of frog that piques your interest. Conventional rules of taxonomy dictate that you capture the animal, euthanize it, and take it back to a lab or museum. But what if it’s a rare or threatened species? What if the animal [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Imagine you’re leading an expedition in the depths of a forest. You discover a species of frog that piques your interest. Conventional rules of taxonomy dictate that you capture the animal, euthanize it, and take it back to a lab or museum. But what if it’s a rare or threatened species? What if the animal you’re holding is one of the few remaining on the planet? Like scientists and researchers around the world, Scott Trageser faced this conundrum for years. The conservationist and photographer often found himself wondering: is it worth euthanizing the animal to take it back to a lab? Around July 2020 — at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when most people with an office job were checking in virtually, their digital presence on Zoom making up for their physical absence — a realization dawned on him. “I thought the technology was finally there to really push for digital specimens,” Trageser, executive director of Arizona-based nonprofit The Biodiversity Group, told Mongabay in a video interview. A digital specimen, in this sense, would be the animal’s digital avatar, a three-dimensional, high-resolution, true-to-life virtual model of the creature (but with the mic still muted). Trageser got to work, collaborating with Japanese electronics powerhouse Sony. The result: a 3D scanning system that can capture digital samples of animals in the wild, releasing them unharmed at the end of the process. While the technology is still in the early stages, Trageser and his team have used it to create digital specimens&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/wildlife-specimen-collection-goes-digital-in-3d/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Betting on biodiversity: Q&#038;A with Superorganism’s Kevin Webb &#038; Tom Quigley</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/betting-on-biodiversity-qa-with-superorganisms-kevin-webb-tom-quigley/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/betting-on-biodiversity-qa-with-superorganisms-kevin-webb-tom-quigley/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>03 Nov 2023 08:31:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, data, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Monitoring, Sensors, Solutions, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[How do you bridge the gap between ecology and the economy? It’s this question that guided both Kevin Webb and Tom Quigley, albeit from different perspectives. Webb, a venture capitalist, was witnessing rapid progress in the deployment of climate technology, but wasn’t seeing similar enthusiasm when it came to tech solutions to deal with the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[How do you bridge the gap between ecology and the economy? It’s this question that guided both Kevin Webb and Tom Quigley, albeit from different perspectives. Webb, a venture capitalist, was witnessing rapid progress in the deployment of climate technology, but wasn’t seeing similar enthusiasm when it came to tech solutions to deal with the biodiversity crisis. Similarly, conservation technologist Quigley was seeing some of the best talent being attracted to developing technology to mitigate the climate crisis, while biodiversity conservation was consigned to the backburner. “It seemed like it was not getting as much attention within those circles as climate is, but it&#8217;s clearly as important of a crisis to solve for humanity as climate is,” Quigley says. With the aim of filling this gap, Webb and Quigley founded a venture capital firm dedicated specifically to addressing the biodiversity crisis. Launched in September, Superorganism is touted as the first ever venture firm that supports startups working to prevent biodiversity loss and protect nature. The firm has an early portfolio of 11 companies, including a startup that produces leather from dangerous invasive species, and another that’s automating sustainable insect farming. Webb and Quigley say they invest in companies that are looking to tackle extinction drivers, that work at the intersection of biodiversity conservation and climate change, and that use cutting-edge technology to protect nature. “Do we think that this could potentially make an ecological dent at scale? We have to get a conviction that the company&#8217;s impact is going to&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/betting-on-biodiversity-qa-with-superorganisms-kevin-webb-tom-quigley/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Can digital twins help save the Amazon? (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/can-digital-twins-help-save-the-amazon-commentary/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/can-digital-twins-help-save-the-amazon-commentary/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>02 Nov 2023 18:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carlo RattiRobert Muggah]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Commentary, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Environment, Forests, Green, LiDAR, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Technology, Tropical Forests, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Amazon &#8211; spread over half of South America and filled with thousands of unique species and billions of trees – is being ravaged by global demand for beef, soy and mineral commodities. But reversing its deforestation and degradation will not be achieved by a narrow focus on conservation. This is because the Basin is [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Amazon &#8211; spread over half of South America and filled with thousands of unique species and billions of trees – is being ravaged by global demand for beef, soy and mineral commodities. But reversing its deforestation and degradation will not be achieved by a narrow focus on conservation. This is because the Basin is home to over 30 million people, many of whom depend on ranching, farming and mining to survive. Using data and digital tools to map the relationship between the forest and its inhabitants is far from straightforward – but leveraging the latest cartographic innovations can probably help us keep one of the planet’s vital carbon sinks from tipping. The Amazon is a bewilderingly complex ecosystem. Spanning over 7 million square kilometers, it is the largest and most biodiverse tropical forest in the world. Home to nearly 400 billion trees (40 for each human on Earth) and over 16,000 species, it is spread across highland forests, tropical steppes, and low-lying floodplains. However, it is not a primordial, untouched landscape: Tens of millions of people, including over 350 distinct ethnic groups, live there, in settlements ranging from tiny villages to teeming cities. Despite facing monumental threats from deforestation, insecurity, and inequality, the Amazon remains one of the world&#8217;s least surveilled and mapped environments. Yet, we can change this situation, thanks to a new generation of cartographic innovations driven by digital technologies. Flowering tree in the Amazon rainforest canopy. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler Mapping a rainforest as vast&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/11/can-digital-twins-help-save-the-amazon-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-274957</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Origami-inspired sensor platforms tumble like leaves to study forests</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/origami-inspired-sensor-platforms-tumble-like-leaves-to-study-forests/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/origami-inspired-sensor-platforms-tumble-like-leaves-to-study-forests/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>17 Oct 2023 15:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Drones, Forests, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Research, Robots, Sensors, Technology, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[The next time you see a leaf gliding down from above, you might want to take a closer look. For all you know, what’s tumbling down could possibly be a new shape-shifting, sensor-laden platform built by researchers to carry out environmental monitoring. Developed by scientists at the University of Washington, these tiny platforms are designed [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The next time you see a leaf gliding down from above, you might want to take a closer look. For all you know, what’s tumbling down could possibly be a new shape-shifting, sensor-laden platform built by researchers to carry out environmental monitoring. Developed by scientists at the University of Washington, these tiny platforms are designed to be dropped from drones. By virtue of their ability to change shape mid-air, each of them ends up having a different trajectory during their descent, allowing a batch of them to spread out across a large area instead of clustering together in the same spot. “A small change in shape actually has a pretty dramatic impact on how they move through the air,” Vikram Iyer, assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington who led the team that developed the platform, told Mongabay in a video interview. “In one case, they have this tumbling descent, kind of like a leaf flying in the wind, and then in another case, when they have just a little bit of an inward fold, they pull basically straight down like a parachute.” It was the blending of ancient tradition and modern technology that allowed the researchers to design the platform. Origami, the Japanese art of paper folding, inspired the researchers to come up with the shapes, folds and creases in the flat and square body of the lightweight platform. They then used an electromagnetic actuator to allow it to change shape electronically in mid-air.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/origami-inspired-sensor-platforms-tumble-like-leaves-to-study-forests/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-274360</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Taking the global pulse of biodiversity monitoring: Q&#038;A with Andrew Gonzalez</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/taking-the-global-pulse-of-biodiversity-monitoring-qa-with-andrew-gonzalez/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/taking-the-global-pulse-of-biodiversity-monitoring-qa-with-andrew-gonzalez/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>11 Oct 2023 11:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, data, Deforestation, Environment, Forests, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Monitoring, Sensors, Solutions, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Conservation technology has witnessed an unprecedented boom in recent years. Drones are soaring higher than ever before. DNA sampled from soil, air and water are revolutionizing biodiversity surveys. Artificial intelligence is making it easier to analyze gargantuan amounts of data. However, despite the dizzying pace of advances in technology, scientists, researchers and tech enthusiasts continue [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation technology has witnessed an unprecedented boom in recent years. Drones are soaring higher than ever before. DNA sampled from soil, air and water are revolutionizing biodiversity surveys. Artificial intelligence is making it easier to analyze gargantuan amounts of data. However, despite the dizzying pace of advances in technology, scientists, researchers and tech enthusiasts continue to have one grouse. Technology projects working on biodiversity monitoring continue to operate in isolated silos, with the level of collaboration and data sharing not commensurate with the urgency of the issue. A new proposal by a group of scientists aims to fill that gap. The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) is a network of scientists and experts monitoring biodiversity around the world. It’s calling for a global network to centralize this monitoring and facilitate seamless transfer of data within countries. The GBiOS, short for Global Biodiversity Observing System, according to the proposal, will be similar to the network of local weather monitoring stations across the world, whose data are used to monitor climate change and its impacts globally. “This is really about getting ourselves coordinated, and acting collectively together for this challenge,” Andrew Gonzalez, co-chair of GEO BON, and professor in the department of biology at McGill University in Canada, told Mongabay in a video interview. “We would not only federate people who are working together more effectively, but also fill many of the gaps in the data that currently exist in the biodiversity field.” The timing of the proposal&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/taking-the-global-pulse-of-biodiversity-monitoring-qa-with-andrew-gonzalez/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-274193</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New Tree Tech: Real-time, long-term, high-tech reforestation monitoring</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/new-tree-tech-real-time-long-term-high-tech-reforestation-monitoring/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/new-tree-tech-real-time-long-term-high-tech-reforestation-monitoring/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>13 Jul 2023 14:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claire Asher]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Evolving Conservation and Tech for the Trees]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Afforestation, Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, data, Degraded Lands, Ecosystems, Environment, Forestry, Forests, Landscape Restoration, Monitoring, Reforestation, Restoration, Sensors, Solutions, Technology, Trees, and Wildtech]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[A major cause of forest restoration project failures is lack of long-term monitoring. Now, satellites, lidar, drones and in-forest sensor networks are bringing detailed, long-term, real-time data to tree-planting initiatives.]]>
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							<![CDATA[This story is the fourth article of a four-part Mongabay mini-series exploring the latest technological solutions to support reforestation. Read Part One, Part Two and Part Three. “Plant a tree!” has over recent decades become a hackneyed ecological rallying cry for numerous mega-reforestation projects hyped in the media by celebrities, companies and governments. But these projects have by and large achieved poor results, not due to a lack of enthusiasm by shovel-wielding, seed-planting volunteers, but because of what happens after the video cameras go away. Which is often nothing, or next to nothing. Many people see reforestation as a quick fix to the climate emergency, but tree-planting projects often fail to put in place the long-term monitoring programs needed to track newly planted trees through their early stages of development, and to offer prompt targeted support when those trees show signs of struggling. “A lot of those projects fail pretty early on for that reason,” said Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, an ecohydrologist at the University of California, Berkeley. Monitoring an entire forest over many years is a huge undertaking, requiring laborious effort, money and the amassing and analyzation of big data sets. Image by Jakob Härter via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). Laborious measurements One reason for all the failures: Monitoring an entire forest over a number of years is a huge undertaking, requiring laborious effort, money, and the amassing and analysis of big data sets. Monitoring typically requires repeated measurements of the diameter of planted trees at a consistent height above the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/07/new-tree-tech-real-time-long-term-high-tech-reforestation-monitoring/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-270632</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Air pollution sensors found to store crucial biodiversity data</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/air-pollution-sensors-found-to-store-crucial-biodiversity-data/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/air-pollution-sensors-found-to-store-crucial-biodiversity-data/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>23 Jun 2023 13:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Abhishyant Kidangoor]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Abhishyantkidangoor]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.mongabay.com/?p=270173</guid>

					
											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Europe, Scotland, and United Kingdom]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Ecosystems, Environment, Pollution, Research, Sensors, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[It seems a cache of biodiversity data was hiding in plain sight all along. In the midst of hazardous particulate matter trapped in the filters of two air quality monitoring systems in the U.K., scientists discovered DNA samples that they were able to extract to study and survey the biodiversity in the region. The two [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It seems a cache of biodiversity data was hiding in plain sight all along. In the midst of hazardous particulate matter trapped in the filters of two air quality monitoring systems in the U.K., scientists discovered DNA samples that they were able to extract to study and survey the biodiversity in the region. The two air pollution sensors, one in London and another in Auchencorth Moss in Scotland, unintentionally collected airborne DNA shed by plants and animals. Scientists in the U.K. and Canada analyzed the samples to identify more than 180 taxa of mammals, plants, birds and invertebrates. According to a study published by the team in the journal Current Biology, the detected species include animals such as badgers (Meles meles) and little owls (Athene noctua), trees such as ash (Fraxinus spp.) and linden (Tilia spp.), as well as pathogenic fungi like Septoriella. While the current findings are based on data collected only from two sensors, it signals the possible presence of a huge trove of biodiversity data around the world that could be extracted and studied. If demonstrated to be scalable, it could potentially be instrumental in making biodiversity surveys easier for scientists and researchers. Air pollution sensors “collect data at very regular intervals,” Joanne Littlefair, one of the authors of the study and a lecturer in biological sciences at Queen Mary University of London, told Mongabay in a video interview. “It’s potentially a huge untapped source of biodiversity information and sampling at a very fine temporal scale.” Surveying&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/air-pollution-sensors-found-to-store-crucial-biodiversity-data/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-270173</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New study identifies mature forests on U.S. federal lands ripe for protection</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/new-study-identifies-mature-forests-on-u-s-federal-lands-ripe-for-protection/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/new-study-identifies-mature-forests-on-u-s-federal-lands-ripe-for-protection/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>04 Oct 2022 17:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Justin Catanoso]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[North America and United States]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Sequestration, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forest Carbon, Forests, Green, LiDAR, Logging, Mapping, Old Growth Forests, Protected Areas, Research, Temperate Forests, and Timber Laws]]>
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							<![CDATA[A new map finds that roughly a third of U.S. mature forests are on federal lands, which President Biden appears eager to protect to store carbon. But much mature forest is also privately held, especially in the Southeast, and is at risk. ]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a major new study, a team of scientists has published what it calls the first-ever, map-based assessment of existing mature and old-growth forests in the continental United States. Such forests are critical to fighting climate change and data like this is deemed vital to President Biden’s climate action agenda. But the new research also shows how much mature forests on both federal and private lands in the U.S. are seriously at risk — offering a conservation opportunity to the Biden administration. The peer-reviewed study, published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, found that older forests — estimated to be 80 years old or older — make up about 167 million acres, or 36%, of all forests in the contiguous 48 states. The new study included this map generated by researchers showing mature and old-growth forests by region across the U.S. Image courtesy of Dominick DellaSala / Wild Heritage. Significantly, about a third of those older forests, or roughly 58 million acres, are on federal lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the National Park Service (NPS). The rest are controlled by non-federal entities, including private owners. The research noted that even though U.S. national parks are fully protected from logging, just 24% of U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management forests are similarly protected, with the rest being at various levels of risk. The study calls for all mature and old-growth forests on federal lands to become fully protected.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/10/new-study-identifies-mature-forests-on-u-s-federal-lands-ripe-for-protection/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-261107</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Gabon, camera-trap developers find the ideal proving ground for their craft</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/in-gabon-camera-trap-developers-find-the-ideal-proving-ground-for-their-craft/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/in-gabon-camera-trap-developers-find-the-ideal-proving-ground-for-their-craft/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>18 Aug 2022 12:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Manon VerchotSanshey Biswas]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Terna Gyuse]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Central Africa, and Gabon]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, data, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Mammals, Protected Areas, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Camera traps are helping researchers get a closer look at pockets of Gabon’s forests that were previously impractical to study. The Central African country has, at 80% by some estimates, the second-largest proportion of forest cover in the world, and only 2.2 million inhabitants. Many of its remote areas are hard to access — and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Camera traps are helping researchers get a closer look at pockets of Gabon’s forests that were previously impractical to study. The Central African country has, at 80% by some estimates, the second-largest proportion of forest cover in the world, and only 2.2 million inhabitants. Many of its remote areas are hard to access — and even harder to monitor. “Gabon in relation to the Congo Basin &#8230; first off, we’re a country that has never faced conflict,” said Brice Roxan Momboua of the National Agency of National Parks (ANPN). “The other strong point is that we have an 80% forest cover. There are zones where humans have never set foot. The majority is intact.” Camera traps have been around for 130 years, but their usefulness in research has picked up sharply in the past two decades. Development of the technology has allowed researchers like Momboua, who leads biomonitoring projects using camera traps in Lopé National Park, to spot species they hadn’t previously seen in some of Gabon’s national parks, like honey badgers (Mellivora capensis) and aardvarks (Orycteropus afer). For Momboua, camera traps are a huge improvement over alternative methods of studying Gabon’s biodiversity, like conducting transects — where researchers walk through a forest looking for traces of animal activity like dung, footprints, or nests. This can be grueling and time-consuming work. But a camera, once in place, can monitor a location deep in the forest for weeks or months and capture whatever passes in front of its sensors, including animals&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/in-gabon-camera-trap-developers-find-the-ideal-proving-ground-for-their-craft/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-259368</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Tech revolution holds world of promise for conservation, but challenges persist</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/tech-revolution-holds-world-of-promise-for-conservation-but-challenges-persist/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/tech-revolution-holds-world-of-promise-for-conservation-but-challenges-persist/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>02 Feb 2022 10:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Caitlin Looby]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
					</author>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri WildTech Reporting Fellowship]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Artificial Intelligence, Camera Trapping, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Fellows, GPS, Remote Sensing, Sensors, Technology, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[As a biology undergraduate, Talia Speaker spent a grueling summer hiking around the mountains near Santa Cruz, California, interning with a team that monitored puma behavior. In one hand she carried a clunky, outdated VHF tracker, trying to get close enough to download data from the cats’ radio collars. In her back pocket was a [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As a biology undergraduate, Talia Speaker spent a grueling summer hiking around the mountains near Santa Cruz, California, interning with a team that monitored puma behavior. In one hand she carried a clunky, outdated VHF tracker, trying to get close enough to download data from the cats’ radio collars. In her back pocket was a sleek, shiny iPhone. The disparity between the two technologies wasn’t lost on her as she was also tasked with spending countless hours searching for insights by clicking through millions of camera images. She couldn’t help but think that there had to be a better way. “Ecologists were stuck with such terrible tools while technology was doing so much to power the rest of the world,” Speaker tells Mongabay in a video interview. For her senior thesis, Speaker wanted to use machine-learning models to process camera data, and managed to find people working in that space. Today, she’s the program officer at WWF for WILDLABS, an online platform that connects conservation technology experts. Talia Speaker, the program officer for WWF at WILDLABS, conducts field testing of a new drone in Colorado. The drone will be used for ecological monitoring. Image courtesy of Vasco Chavez-Molina. Over the past few decades, technology quickly changed the face of conservation. Camera traps, acoustic sensors, drones, satellites, and now genomic and machine-learning tools empower conservationists to better understand the ecosystems they work in. But conservation technology is now at a turning point. Despite the progress made in the field, there are&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/02/tech-revolution-holds-world-of-promise-for-conservation-but-challenges-persist/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Camera trap study shows conservation efforts ‘are working’ on Costa Rica&#8217;s Osa Peninsula: Video</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/massive-camera-trap-study-shows-conservation-efforts-are-working-on-costa-ricas-osa-peninsula/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Dec 2021 22:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America, Costa Rica, and Latin America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Birds, Camera Trapping, cameras, Citizen Science, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Endangered Species, Environment, Forests, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Protected Areas, Rainforests, Sensors, Surveying, Technology, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[After she collected a set of camera traps from the ridgeline above Corcovado National Park, conservation biologist Eleanor Flatt said that scientists, staff, and tourists all huddled around her computer at the Punta Marenco Lodge to see what images were captured. Camera traps, remote cameras triggered by motion, can be set off by something as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[After she collected a set of camera traps from the ridgeline above Corcovado National Park, conservation biologist Eleanor Flatt said that scientists, staff, and tourists all huddled around her computer at the Punta Marenco Lodge to see what images were captured. Camera traps, remote cameras triggered by motion, can be set off by something as mundane as a leaf blowing in the wind. So, as blurry shots of bushes, fronds, and regularly seen animals appeared, she says, many lost interest — until a puma flashed across the screen. “Everyone came running back,” Flatt said. “They couldn’t believe it.” Camera traps installed by the local guides of Punta Marenco Lodge caught a puma (Puma concolor) traveling on a steep ridge in a  wildlife refuge on the edge of Corcovado National Park. Image courtesy of Osa Camera Trap Network. “We all know that rainforest animals can be super secretive and often never seen,” Andy Whitworth, director of the NGO Osa Conservation told Mongabay in a 2018 interview about the camera trap project, “especially some of the most charismatic species, like the cats, and weird and wonderful nocturnal beasts, like the hog-nosed skunk.” That’s why scientists launched the largest camera trap study in Central America to date. They wanted to learn how human disturbance affects where animals live and how they’re grouped on the Osa Peninsula (a spit of land on Costa Rica’s Pacific side about one-and-a-half times as big as Los Angeles, California). The Osa Peninsula is noted as an oasis of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/massive-camera-trap-study-shows-conservation-efforts-are-working-on-costa-ricas-osa-peninsula/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Hungry like the maned wolf pup: Clips give rare glimpse of elusive canine</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/hungry-like-the-maned-wolf-pup-clips-give-rare-glimpse-of-elusive-canine/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Oct 2021 14:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Carnivores, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Ecosystems, Environment, Protected Areas, Restoration, Rewilding, Technology, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[A camera trap in Argentina’s Iberá National Park has revealed rare images of one of the world’s most elusive species: the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus). A series of clips shows three maned wolf cubs playing by themselves outside their den, then nursing and eating regurgitated food provided by their mother, whom researchers have named Preta. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A camera trap in Argentina’s Iberá National Park has revealed rare images of one of the world’s most elusive species: the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus). A series of clips shows three maned wolf cubs playing by themselves outside their den, then nursing and eating regurgitated food provided by their mother, whom researchers have named Preta. Rogerio de Paula, a maned wolf expert at Brazil’s National Center for Research and Conservation of Carnivorous Mammals, said these nursing and feeding behaviors have never been observed in wild maned wolves, making these clips particularly noteworthy. “That was the first report of this type of behavior in the wild,” De Paula told Mongabay in a video interview. “It was great to see.” In 2020, researchers at Fundación Rewilding Argentina, an NGO that partners with Tompkins Conservation, began placing VHF radio collars onto maned wolves inside Iberá to learn more about their behavior. In August 2021, they discovered three wolf pups living in the grasslands of the park, so the team planted a camera trap outside their den, which is how they got the nursing and feeding images. “It is not easy to find the species in the wild and register their behaviour &#8230; and even harder to find cubs since they are well hidden by their parents,” Talía Zamboni, a biologist at Fundación Rewilding Argentina, told Mongabay in an email. “Being able to monitor their daily life and habits add up to the knowledge of the species ecology and behaviour [which is] fundamental for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/10/hungry-like-the-maned-wolf-pup-clips-give-rare-glimpse-of-elusive-canine/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The cat is back: Wild Amur tigers rebound in China, thanks to govt policies</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/the-cat-is-back-wild-amur-tigers-rebound-in-china-thanks-to-govt-policies/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Sep 2021 11:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[China]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Camera Trapping, cameras, Carnivores, Cats, Charismatic Animals, Conservation Technology, Environment, Environmental Policy, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Technology, Tigers, Tracking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[There was a time when tiger expert Dale Miquelle wasn’t sure if there’d ever be a substantial population of Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) in China again. In the 1990s, Miquelle and his colleagues estimated there to only be about eight of these big cats, also commonly referred to as Siberian tigers, left in northeastern [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[There was a time when tiger expert Dale Miquelle wasn’t sure if there’d ever be a substantial population of Amur tigers (Panthera tigris altaica) in China again. In the 1990s, Miquelle and his colleagues estimated there to only be about eight of these big cats, also commonly referred to as Siberian tigers, left in northeastern China. But in the last eight years, change has come in leaps and bounds: recent camera trap footage reveals there are at least 55 Amur tigers living in forests in northeastern China. “Persistent efforts to protect tigers have paid off,” Miquelle, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Russia, told Mongabay in an email. “Change has not come quickly, but there has been slow, steady progress, and we see there are great opportunities for even more recovery.” According to a recent study in Biological Conservation, of which Miquelle is a co-author, camera trap footage taken between 2013 and 2018 identified 55 Amur tigers in four forested landscapes in northeastern China: Laoyeling, Zhang-Guangcailing, Wandashan, and the Lesser Khinghan Mountains. The scientists also genetically analyzed tiger scat, urine and hair to identify 30 tigers in the region. However, only Laoyeling is believed to support a breeding population, the paper suggests. The reason for the tigers’ sudden appearance in northeast China is due, in a large part, to a Chinese national policy called the Natural Forest Protection Project (NFPP), Miquelle said. “By stopping [the] harvest[ing] of trees in many parts of China, they essentially made whole villages whose&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/the-cat-is-back-wild-amur-tigers-rebound-in-china-thanks-to-govt-policies/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Human impacts leave reefs short on sharks and long on moray eels</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/human-impacts-leave-reefs-short-on-sharks-and-long-on-moray-eels/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Feb 2021 21:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Camera Trapping, cameras, Conservation, Conservation Technology, DNA, Ecosystems, Elasmobranchs, Fish, Fisheries, Fishing, Global Environmental Crisis, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Overfishing, Saltwater Fish, Sharks, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Demian Chapman and his colleague first started setting up underwater cameras on reefs in 2015, the aim was to capture a lot of shark video. But sometimes they got moray eels instead. Particularly at reefs where sharks were no longer present. “It was feast or famine,” Chapman, associate professor in the department of biological [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When Demian Chapman and his colleague first started setting up underwater cameras on reefs in 2015, the aim was to capture a lot of shark video. But sometimes they got moray eels instead. Particularly at reefs where sharks were no longer present. “It was feast or famine,” Chapman, associate professor in the department of biological sciences at Florida International University (FIU), told Mongabay in an interview. “On reefs with sharks, you would see no eels. On reefs without sharks, that’s when you started seeing eels.” After collecting years of anecdotal evidence, Chapman and a team of international researchers embarked on a study: they wanted to see if data would back up their assumptions that eels were indeed present on shark-free reefs. The resulting paper, which was recently published in iScience, found that nearby markets had a negative impact on sharks and other reef fish in the Caribbean region, but didn’t have the same effect on moray eels. Consequently, eels were more abundant in places where sharks weren’t. A moray eel visiting a BRUV. Image by Global Fin Print. In the paper, this phenomenon is referred to as “market gravity.” The closer a reef is to a city, the fewer fish that reef will have. This is due in part to people fishing and harvesting species from nearby reefs, but also because non-target species have to travel further away to find their own food sources when nearby reefs become depleted. “When you look at the sharks, they follow the same pattern&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/02/human-impacts-leave-reefs-short-on-sharks-and-long-on-moray-eels/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Lasers find forest gaps to aid tree mortality studies in Brazilian Amazon</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/lasers-find-forest-gaps-to-aid-tree-mortality-studies-in-brazilian-amazon/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Jan 2021 22:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Conservation Technology, data, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Loss, Forests, Green, LiDAR, Rainforests, Remote Sensing, Research, Technology, Trees, Tropical Forests, Wildlife Trade, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the skies above far-flung corners of the Brazilian Amazon, a small plane aims laser beams down at the treetops to create a real-time topography down to the ground. Its goal is simple: find gaps in the forest. “It may sound like a Star Wars movie, but this is just another application of lasers in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the skies above far-flung corners of the Brazilian Amazon, a small plane aims laser beams down at the treetops to create a real-time topography down to the ground. Its goal is simple: find gaps in the forest. “It may sound like a Star Wars movie, but this is just another application of lasers in our day-to-day lives,” Ricardo Dalagnol, a scientist at the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE), told Mongabay in an email. “In practice, millions of laser beams are shot from an airplane over the forest, some beams hit the trees and some hit the ground. With this information, we can map trees and gaps.” Using this technique of airborne light detection and ranging technology, more commonly known as “lidar,” a team of researchers from INPE, FUNCATE, and the universities of Leeds and Birmingham in the U.K. remotely studied tree death and canopy gaps — holes in the green cover that extend from the tree tops down to the understory or ground. Their findings have been published in the journal Scientific Reports. Information from the lidar lasers is translated into a point cloud image of the forest, seen here in profile. Image courtesy of Ricardo Dalagnol and INPE/EBA project lidar dataset. A lidar point cloud profile as viewed from the top. The warmer colors (yellow to red) are taller and the darker colors are closer to the ground.  Image courtesy of Ricardo Dalagnol and INPE/EBA project lidar dataset. Dalagnol, the study’s lead author, said reports of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/lasers-find-forest-gaps-to-aid-tree-mortality-studies-in-brazilian-amazon/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Cat fight: Jaguar ambushes ocelot in rare camera trap footage</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/cat-fight-jaguar-ambushes-ocelot-in-rare-camera-trap-footage/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jan 2021 08:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Central America and Guatemala]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Camera Trapping, cameras, Cats, Charismatic Animals, Climate Change, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Drought, Environment, Green, Resource Conflict, Small Cats, Species, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[An ocelot, a spotted and striped carnivore twice the size of a house cat, had just stopped at a water hole for a drink. But something was waiting for him: a jaguar. Forty seconds after the ocelot’s arrival, the jaguar, who was about five to seven times bigger, pounced from behind. Jaws clenched, the jaguar [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[An ocelot, a spotted and striped carnivore twice the size of a house cat, had just stopped at a water hole for a drink. But something was waiting for him: a jaguar. Forty seconds after the ocelot’s arrival, the jaguar, who was about five to seven times bigger, pounced from behind. Jaws clenched, the jaguar dragged its victim away and finished it off. This incident, captured by a camera trap at a water hole in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in northern Guatemala in March 2019, offers a glimpse into intraguild predation — that is, the killing and even occasional eating of an apparent competitor. In this case, the two species appeared to be jockeying for access to the water. But while scat studies have suggested that jaguars (Panthera onca) have sometimes preyed upon ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), documenting such an event on camera is rare. “These killing events are sporadic in nature,” Lucy Perera-Romero, a researcher at Washington State University and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and lead author of a recent paper on the subject, told Mongabay. “The fact that we have it in pictures is incredible, as well as the confirmation they occur within this pair of species.” Local drought, exacerbated by climate change, probably had something to do with it, the paper suggests. “More prolonged droughts reduce water availability in the forest, resulting in more intense use of the few remaining water sources,” co-author Rony Garcia-Anleu, a biologist at WCS, told Mongabay. “This translates into more interactions occurring [at]&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/01/cat-fight-jaguar-ambushes-ocelot-in-rare-camera-trap-footage/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>The Amazon’s short-eared dog was thought to be a scavenger. Now there’s video</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/the-amazons-short-eared-dog-was-thought-to-be-a-scavenger-now-theres-video/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Nov 2020 09:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Biodiversity, Biology, Camera Trapping, cameras, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Cryptic Species, Ecology, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Mammals, Remote Sensing, Species, Tracking, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2016, conservation biologist Holly O’Donnell was striding through the Amazon rainforest in southwestern Peru, recording every mammal she saw or heard while performing a line transect survey for the Peruvian NGO Fauna Forever. A few minutes into her walk, she smelled something fetid. Following the scent several meters off the trail, she found the [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In 2016, conservation biologist Holly O’Donnell was striding through the Amazon rainforest in southwestern Peru, recording every mammal she saw or heard while performing a line transect survey for the Peruvian NGO Fauna Forever. A few minutes into her walk, she smelled something fetid. Following the scent several meters off the trail, she found the carcass of a nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), which may have died due to a recent cold weather event called a friaje. She hurried back to Fauna Forever’s camp at Las Piedras Amazon Center to get a spare camera trap, and installed it near the dead armadillo. She hoped to capture a wild cat like an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) or a jaguar (Panthera onca) preying upon the carcass, but mostly expected to see vultures. A couple of weeks later, O’Donnell retrieved the memory card from the camera. As expected, she found clip after clip of vultures pecking at the armadillo. But then she saw something unexpected: A short-eared dog (Atelocynus microtis) darted past the lens, sniffing and nibbling at the carcass. “I didn’t believe it at first,” O’Donnell, a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), told Mongabay in an interview. “[I thought] it can’t be a short-eared dog, it must be wrong. Maybe it’s a pet … but no, it was [a short-eared dog].” O’Donnell’s disbelief was justified. Short-eared dogs, a near-threatened species endemic to the Amazon Basin, are notoriously elusive, making them a difficult species to study. At Fauna Forever,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/11/the-amazons-short-eared-dog-was-thought-to-be-a-scavenger-now-theres-video/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Don’t cross this tiger mom: Close encounter in Russia’s Far East</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/dont-cross-this-tiger-mom-close-encounter-in-russias-far-east/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Sep 2020 11:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Russia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Bioacoustics, Camera Trapping, cameras, Charismatic Animals, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Endangered Species, Environment, Green, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Remote Sensing, Technology, Tigers, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Sept. 15, Aleksandr Rybin was checking a camera trap in Russia’s Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve when something red and long-tailed darted in the bushes in front of him. “A thought flashed in my head: cougar?” Rybin, a 45-year-old researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Russia, said in a statement. “No, what cougar can be [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Sept. 15, Aleksandr Rybin was checking a camera trap in Russia’s Sikhote-Alin Biosphere Reserve when something red and long-tailed darted in the bushes in front of him. “A thought flashed in my head: cougar?” Rybin, a 45-year-old researcher at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Russia, said in a statement. “No, what cougar can be here; we&#8217;re in the Far East. It&#8217;s a tiger! I thought, convulsively grasping at the camera.” It wasn’t just one tiger, but two. An adult female Amur tiger, or Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), slinked down a path, while her cub bounded over to a puddle. A rare Amur tiger. Image by Aleksandr Rybin / WCS Russia. Thinking the tiger duo had disappeared into the woods, Rybin and his colleague got into their vehicle to drive away, only to encounter the tigress again on the road. “She looked at us menacingly and hissed in displeasure,” Rybin said. “Then I took these pictures. Like any mother, the tigress protected her child, and in order not to irritate the beast, we quickly left this place and drove on.” Rybin has been working for WCS Russia for the past 22 years, using camera traps to monitor Amur tiger and critically endangered Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) populations. But encounters like this are very rare, he said. “I have had not more than 10 encounters like this,” Rybin told Mongabay in an email. “I especially remember tiger cubs I met in the wild — it was really exciting. Amur&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/dont-cross-this-tiger-mom-close-encounter-in-russias-far-east/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Paper giant APP linked to Indonesia peat clearing despite sustainability vow</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/asia-pulp-paper-peat-clearing-greenpeace/</link>
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					<pubDate>01 Sep 2020 07:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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						<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Riau, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, carbon, Carbon Emissions, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Fires, Forest Destruction, Forests, Landscape Restoration, LiDAR, Mapping, Peatlands, Plantations, Protected Areas, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Restoration, Timber, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Suppliers to Indonesia’s biggest producer of pulpwood for paper cleared an area of carbon-rich peatland 10 times the size of New York City’s Central Park, in possible violation of its sustainability commitments, a new analysis by Greenpeace shows. The conservation NGO used freely available satellite imagery and detailed spatial information to determine that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — Suppliers to Indonesia’s biggest producer of pulpwood for paper cleared an area of carbon-rich peatland 10 times the size of New York City’s Central Park, in possible violation of its sustainability commitments, a new analysis by Greenpeace shows. The conservation NGO used freely available satellite imagery and detailed spatial information to determine that nearly 3,500 hectares (8,650 acres) of peatland, an area the size of 6,500 football fields, was cleared in three concessions with ties to Asia Pulp &amp; Paper (APP) between August 2018 and June 2020. Peat clearing is typically done ahead of planting pulpwood trees such as acacia and eucalyptus. The concessions, on the island of Sumatra, are held by the companies PT Arara Abadi (AA), PT Bumi Andalas Permai (BAP) and PT Bumi Mekar Hijau (BMH), which are either owned by APP or are major suppliers to the company. The largest peat clearing was found in the BMH concession and spanned 2,110 hectares (5,213 acres) from August 2018, followed by BAP with 1,200 hectares (2,965 acres) in the same period, and AA with 170 hectares (420 acres) from January 2020. The analysis by Greenpeace Southeast Asia also found 53 kilometers (32 miles) of drainage canals dug in the same period, a practice that dries out the moist peat layer and renders it highly susceptible to catching fire. Sumatra is routinely blanketed with toxic haze from peat fires, which represent both a public health threat and a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. All three concession&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/09/asia-pulp-paper-peat-clearing-greenpeace/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Bubbles, lasers and robo-bees: The blossoming industry of artificial pollination</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/bubbles-lasers-and-robo-bees-is-artificial-pollination-here-to-stay/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Jul 2020 11:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia, California, Global, Israel, New Zealand, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Bees, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Crops, Diseases, Drones, Environment, Food, Food Industry, Green, Habitat Degradation, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Industrial Agriculture, Industry, Insects, LiDAR, Monocultures, Pesticides, Pollinators, Technology, Trees, Wildlife, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[In an episode of the Netflix dystopian sci-fi show “Black Mirror,” artificial bees have been deployed to pollinate the world’s plants after a massive pollinator extinction. A great idea, until [SPOILER ALERT] the robo-bees are programmed for murder. We are a long way from launching fake bees into the wild, experts say, but global pollinator [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In an episode of the Netflix dystopian sci-fi show “Black Mirror,” artificial bees have been deployed to pollinate the world’s plants after a massive pollinator extinction. A great idea, until [SPOILER ALERT] the robo-bees are programmed for murder. We are a long way from launching fake bees into the wild, experts say, but global pollinator declines are not science fiction. Artificial pollination is a real industry, with a burgeoning edge of innovation. One recently developed technique employs a more whimsical approach to pollination: bubbles. A group of researchers from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) have published a study in iScience suggesting that soap bubbles could be used as a low-tech method of artificial pollination. Artistic depiction of a soap bubble pollination at blooming pear orchard by Eijiro Miyako. &#8220;It sounds somewhat like fantasy, but the functional soap bubble allows effective pollination,” said senior author Eijiro Miyako, an associate professor in the School of Materials Science at JAIST. In the past, Miyako’s research group used tiny drones (2 centimeters, or 0.8 inches) with a patch of pollen-laden horse hairs to pollinate flowers. But the approach lacked finesse, with the drones crashing into and sometimes damaging the flowers. https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2020/07/24101215/Miyakodrone-1.mp4 Artificial pollinator in action. Video from Chechetka et al 2017. While trying to refine the pollination problem, Miyako spent the day in a park with his son blowing bubbles. A bubble landed on the child’s cheek and Miyako was struck with an idea: that the delicate hovering sphere may be&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/07/bubbles-lasers-and-robo-bees-is-artificial-pollination-here-to-stay/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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