Boost Your Herd Management with Smart Solutions: Meet Us at IUCN
Meet our team at IUCN 2025 We are presenting our Smart Herd Management Solution at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi, UAE, this October. Join us at the French Pavillion and our booth...
Camel Herding in a Changing World: Managing Growth, Mobility and Risk Across Borders
In many regions of the world, especially in the Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Asia, camels are more than animals, they are a symbol of resilience and survival. For centuries, they have...
Argos Services for Wildlife Conservation
Welcome to this edition of our wildlife newsletter. In this issue, we highlight an innovative project in Africa that harnesses satellite technology to reduce human-wildlife conflict, protecting both livestock and predators.
Human-Wildlife Conflict Efforts Expanded with Argos
In South Africa, the savannah tells a complex story, where humans, livestock, and wildlife share space, but not always peacefully. Our work with the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) has been...
From Space to Savannah: Argos Services Prevent Conflict between Cattle and Carnivores
In South Africa, many livestock farmers live close to protected nature reserves. When cattle wander into these areas, they are at risk of being attacked by wild predators such as lions, leopards, or...
Discover The Future of Farming: Argos Smart Herding Solution
As the agricultural sector continues to evolve in response to modern challenges, the integration of smart technologies has emerged as a game-changer, particularly in livestock management. Among...
Argos Solutions Are Getting a Boost
Congratulations to our Space IoT partner, Kinéis, and their launcher Rocket Lab for this evening’s successful launch! Today, the first five of a planned constellation of 25 nanosatellites are in...
New Generation of Argos Services are on Their Way With the 1st Launch of the Kineis Constellation on the 20th of June!
Kinéis, our Space IoT partner, has announced that it, along with RocketLab, will launch the first five nanosatellites carrying new generation IoT payloads for Argos Services. Due to unfavorable...
New Generation Argos Services Live Launch
Kinéis, our Space IoT partner, along with RocketLab, is launching the first five nanosatellites carrying IoT payloads for Argos services. Due to unfavorable weather, the Kinéis launch planned for...
Debbie Stakem: A 32-Year Journey with Argos
An enhanced global system like Argos requires an enhanced global support team and, with its 30 different sites around the world, CLS is proud to have an excellent international userservices team....
Why Arctic foxes travel long distances?
The Arctic foxes have been noticed as travelling very long distances over the whole Arctic regions. Long time series of tracks retrieved by Argos enables to analyse this behaviour to understand why...
Tracking Northern Elephant Seals in Ocean Eddies
Understanding how a marine species uses the features of its environment is important for conservation. The northern elephant seals are close cousins to their southern equivalents. A number of...
Breaking news: Engineers and scientists collaborate to develop the first open-source Argos ear tag
For over a decade, researchers have been working on improving radio telemetry devices for polar bears. In 2018, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the World Wildlife Fund, IDEO, and MistyWest...
Are the Arctic hares migrating?
A number of animals are migratory. The hares do not leap to mind when listing migrating animals. However, satellite telemetry confirms arctic hares very probably migrate in Northern Canadian Arctic....
Polar bears tracked for more than 30 years in the Beaufort Sea
Polar bear’s foraging success is dependent on the presence of sea ice. Arctic sea ice, however, is rapidly decreasing in extent and thickness, and summer open-water periods are lengthening. As...
Jaguars in need of increasing biosphere reserve
Jaguars are one of the emblematic animals throughout the Americas. As most large terrestrial predators, it is threatened of extinction. Tracking them using Argos satellite telemetry enable to better...
Pronghorn migration across borders and human-made landscapes
Mapping of ungulate migration habitat is important for their conservation. Pronghorn are an endemic species of North America (Canada, USA, and Mexico), migrating between different regions. Satellite...
Feedback from the field: Kineis – the Future of Argos
"The new system looks very promising for us. I think it’s a great step forward, this is a major advancement which is coming at a critical juncture in the conservation of polar bears as the climate...
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[WEBINAR] Animal Tracking: The Future of Wildlife Telemetry is Coming
Since 1978, the Argos Data Collection System has served the international wildlife community. With the Kinéis constellation carrying onboard Argos-4 instruments, the metamorphosis of ARGOS is...
Argos Helps to Define a Protected Area for Elephants in Cameroon
African elephants are under assault due primarily to the illicit ivory trade and, to a lesser extent, to habitat destruction and human incursions. Numbers are plummeting throughout most range...
Dorcas Gazelles’ Seasonal Patterns of Activity Recorded by Argos
Dorcas gazelles live North of Sahel, in Africa. In some countries they are vulnerable and reintroducing them requires assessing their ability of adaptation to a new environment. Argos transmitted...
Record-Breaking Distances Revealed by Argos
New Argos tracking study by the Norwegian Polar Institute and the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA) reveals unimagined distances traveled by a female Arctic fox, from Svalbard to a...
From Svalbard to Canada, the Long Travel of an Arctic Fox Tracked by Argos
Arctic foxes are living in all the regions around the Arctic ocean. Argos satellite telemetry tracking demonstrates that some of those foxes are changing continent using the sea ice as bridge,...
Reintroducing Mhorr Gazelles into the Wild
The Mhorr gazelle is an endangered species of the Sahelian area. It is one of the most singular, threatened and scarcely-studied gazelle species of northern Africa. It is considered by locals as...
Argos Sheds Light on Polar Bears’ Changing Summer Habits
For some years one of the major problems of polar bears has been the dramatic reduction of their habitat, i.e. Arctic sea ice, during the summer time. The bears are thus faced with extreme...
Reporting on the Work of Russian Scientists in the Arctic Using Specialized Argos Tags
Alexandre Salman, of ES-PAS, reports on the work of Russian scientists at the European User Conference on Argos Wildlife (EUCAW). As he explains, since Argos instruments fly onboard polar-orbiting...
Unlocking the Mysteries of the Arctic Fox
The Argos satellite telemetry system made it possible for a team of researchers led by Dominique Berteaux from the University of Québec in Rimouski to better understand the behavior of the...
On the Track of the Polar Bears
Polar bears live in a challenging environment for human beings, and getting close to them is not without dangers. Wildlife tracking using Argos PTTs has thus enabled us to know more about them. The...
Siberian Arctic Fox on the Move
Nowadays Arctic wildlife is often endangered by climate changes and human activities, and they are not always very well known. The arctic fox is a small animal, white in Winter, living around the...
Contribution of Space Technologies for Livestock and Food Security
As part of the ESA program named ARTES 20/Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP), and with the support of the CNES, CLS is working on a new space application for animal tracking in the field of...
The Lynxes of Jura
A video recently posted on Facebook by Jean-Marie Thévenard, shows the passage of three lynxes, a female and her two cubs, in a snowy Jura forest. The Argos beacon from CLS is used by the Athénas...
Argos Forum #83 | Argos, Protecting Endangered Species
Argos telemetry plays a central role in protecting endangered and vulnerable species from all biomes – marine, terrestrial and avian. Satellite telemetry reveals key conservation parameters...
Polar Bears and Climate Change
The polar bear is an iconic apex predator whose specialized adaptations for capturing seals from the surface of the sea ice has allowed them to flourish in the Arctic marine environment for at least...
Reintroducing Bison in Russia’s Bryansk Forest
The population of European bison has continuously decreased throughout the 20th century. Today, many scientists are trying to reintroduce the species in Europe and specifically in Russia. A bison...