Jul 23, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The french association APECS (Association for the Study and Conservation of Selachians) is a Brest association dedicated to the study and conservation of sharks and rays. The members of this association regularly use Argos tags to be able to follow the selected...
Jun 27, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Eels are still nowadays a very mysterious fish species. To better know their swimming behaviour when leaving the European coasts, accelerometers are used in conjunction with Argos pop-up tags to estimate speed variations during vertical migrations and infer energy...
Apr 17, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Porbeagle shark is a wildlife species which migrates long distances. Monitoring their movements is important to help protect them. Since they are permanently subaquatic, they are located using Argos pop-up satellite archival tags. The migration of nine porbeagle...
Mar 16, 2018 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Understanding and monitoring marine species is crucial for the development of coherent and effective management practices. That is why the French Agency for Marine Protected Areas, now part of the French Agency for Biodiversity, quickly realized the advantages of...
Jul 24, 2017 | Fish, Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Did you know that 71% of Earth’s surface are oceans, but only 3% of the world’s oceans are protected in actively managed Marine Protected Areas (MPA)? And yet… did you know that 625+ animals are tracked by Argos in MPA worldwide? Including turtles,...
Jun 28, 2017 | Argos Forum, Fish, Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Juvenile sea turtles and Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of MexicoUsing Argos to track sharks in the Malpelo sanctuaryLearning more about basking sharks with ArgosPenguins show the way for marine spatial planningThe extraordinary migration of the Hudsonian...
