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Female bear with cubs observe a visitor

Spot the pattern: Whisker-prints and citizen science

Lalini Pedris 15 Sep 2017

Rethinking camera traps for the small, fast, and elusive

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 11 Sep 2017

Technologies that boost conservation efforts right now and in the future

Mike Gaworecki 6 Sep 2017
Whale shark off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

DNA barcoding helps identify endangered species from market specimens of sharks and rays

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 6 Sep 2017

App combines computer vision and crowdsourcing to explore Earth’s biodiversity, one photo at a time

Colleen O'Brien 30 Aug 2017

Re-peeling the effects of degradation: low-tech application of orange crop waste shows potential to restore tropical forests

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Aug 2017
A male indigo bunting pauses in Texas during

Scientists combine crowd-sourced field observations with land-use and climate models to identify steps for migratory bird protection

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Aug 2017

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

Danielle Bettermann 15 Aug 2017

Plastic Fantastic? Indonesia plans to turn waste into road tar

Luh De Suriyani 10 Aug 2017

HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Claire Salisbury 7 Aug 2017

Long-term thermal imaging video surveillance records how disease affects hibernating bats

Danielle Bettermann 7 Aug 2017

New genetic analyses help scientists rethink the elephant family tree

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Aug 2017

Open-source species location data supports global biodiversity analyses

Colleen O'Brien 31 Jul 2017

Visualizing the impacts of human disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jul 2017

Low-tech challenges to high-tech forest monitoring: lessons from Ugandan parks

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Jul 2017

Road safety for wildlife: researchers analyze the best techniques for road-kill mitigation

Danielle Bettermann 21 Jul 2017

Animated animals: can games engage an audience with a conservation message?

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Jul 2017

Tuna catch monitoring enters the electronic age

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Jul 2017

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

Danielle Bettermann 13 Jul 2017

Camera trapping in the trees

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Jul 2017

Phone app lists ‘Good Fish’ and ‘Bad Fish’ to reduce impacts of cyanide fishing

Danielle Bettermann 30 Jun 2017

Story-telling app and website help communities improve their ‘backyards’

Danielle Bettermann 23 Jun 2017

Footprints in the forest: The future of the Sumatran rhino

John Cannon 23 Jun 2017

Creating corridors: researchers use GPS telemetry data to map elephants’ movements

Danielle Bettermann 21 Jun 2017

Soil research aided by citizen scientists, boots and all

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Jun 2017

Underwater cameras let scientists dive beneath the surface with dolphins

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jun 2017
An elephant in Botswana far from people and unlikely to encounter and break fences.

Breaking a fence-breaking habit: maintaining the fences that reduce human-elephant conflict

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Jun 2017

Rugged innovation: Meeting the challenges of bringing high tech DNA analysis to the field

Lalini Pedris 25 May 2017

Location, location, location goes high-tech: Facts and FAQs about satellite-based wildlife tracking

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 May 2017

Location, location, location: Facts and FAQs about radio telemetry

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 12 May 2017

Going viral: How advancements in Ebola disease detection in wild apes can help to prevent dangerous outbreaks

Lalini Pedris 4 May 2017

Effective climate change action needs technology and policy

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 1 May 2017

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