By Abhishyant Kidangoor Camera traps are ubiquitous in conservation. They’re deployed to monitor biodiversity, study animal behavior, observe habitats over long periods of time, and enforce effective ...

While Australia is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, we also have some of the highest extinction rates. Hopeful scientists set up thousands of camera traps across the country to build ...

Community members in Alto Mayo, Peru, are protecting 4,000 hectares (nearly 10,000 acres) of unique wetland forest by combining sustainable ecotourism, scientific research and participatory management ...

Monitoring the vulnerable houbara bustard — a shy, ground-nesting bird of arid landscapes — is one of conservation’s quiet hard problems. The birds range across vast deserts in North Africa, the ...

The long-term mammal monitoring project on Barro Colorado Island is one of the most unique camera trap systems in the tropics and the first of its kind Rosannette Quesada Hidalgo Glitter was a female ...

Night has fallen; an elephant mother and her calf walk through Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, which covers more than 4000 square kilometres of rainforest in the northern Republic of the Congo. This ...

Rajasthan's Forest Department is launching a special campaign to protect the endangered Caracal, a Schedule-I wild animal.

MISSOULA – On a hillside in northwest Montana, Mahdieh Tourani secures a camera to a tree. She gives the straps anchoring the camera a good tug, and when it doesn’t move, she steps back to admire her ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Before launching a monitoring program, conservationists are often asked how data will be collected, which indicators will be used, and how results ...

Jenks, K. E., Chanteap, P., Damrongchainarong, K., Cutter, P., Redford, T., Lynam, A. J., Howard, JoGayle, and Leimgruber, Peter. 2011. "Using relative abundance ...