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A black beetle.

Sounds of the soil: A new tool for conservation?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2023
A trefoil horseshoe bat

Flooding for hydropower dams hits forest-reliant bats hard, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 26 May 2023
Bioacoustic researcher

The more degraded a forest, the quieter its wildlife, new study shows

Carolyn Cowan 24 Apr 2023
dolphin

Pingers on fishing nets found to save river dolphins in Indonesian Borneo

Carolyn Cowan 29 Oct 2021

Electronic ears listen to poachers in a key Central American jaguar habitat

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Feb 2021

Whale of a find: Scientists spot beaked whale believed to be a new species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Dec 2020

Spiny lobsters raise an undersea racket that can be heard miles away

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2020

Baby whale wears a camera, reveals its travel and nursing behavior: video

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Jul 2019

Conservation tech prize with invasive species focus announces finalists

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Jul 2019

Tiny tracking tags help decode how echolocating bats navigate

Lakshmi Supriya 30 May 2019

Something smells fishy: Scientists uncover illegal fishing using shark tracking devices

Sophie Manson 7 Mar 2019

Jammin’ at wind farms may help save bats

Mary Bates 11 Feb 2019

How do you assess if a reintroduced species is thriving? Listen for it

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 8 Feb 2019
Topher White of Rainforest Connection installing a bioacoustic device in the forest canopy. Image by Ben Von Wong.

Eavesdrop on forest sounds to effectively monitor biodiversity, researchers say

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jan 2019

10 ways conservation tech shifted into auto in 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Dec 2018

A monitoring network in the Amazon captures a flood of data

Elizabeth Oliveira 11 Dec 2018

Virtual meetup highlights networked sensor technology for parks

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 30 Nov 2018

Pod-cast: New app streams whale songs for web users in real time

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Nov 2018

How porpoise sounds helped researchers test acoustic devices

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Nov 2018

Decoding the language of bats key to their conservation

Javier Lyonnet 8 Oct 2018

Cool birds don’t sing: Study automates acoustic monitoring of songbird migration

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 22 Jun 2018

Scientists tackling conservation problems turn to artificial intelligence

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 May 2018

Vibrations from elephant calls and movements reflect distinct behaviors, study says

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 11 May 2018

Noisy reefs help young fish find their home

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 May 2018

First record of ultrasound communication in the mysterious Sunda colugo

Shreya Dasgupta 1 May 2018

Understanding bird behavior key to developing risk reduction technologies

Danielle Bettermann 13 Apr 2018

How to build a Guardian: students learn about making technology work in the field

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 23 Mar 2018

10 top conservation tech innovations from 2017

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Jan 2018

New resource for planning camera trapping, acoustic monitoring, and LiDAR projects

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 1 Nov 2017

Measuring fish abundance through acoustics: spawning aggregations are key to improving fishery management plans

Danielle Bettermann 15 Aug 2017

Catching the buzz: acoustic monitoring of bees could determine pollination services

Danielle Bettermann 13 Jul 2017

Swallowing swimming pools: New sensory tags capture kinetics of lunge-feeding whales

Julia John 2 Dec 2016

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