Apr 18, 2019 | Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
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 conditions and must go inland, since the sea ice is retreating North too...
Sep 24, 2018 | Herding, Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
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 satellites, therefore, in Arctic zones, satellite passes are more...
Sep 11, 2018 | Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
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 mysterious Arctic fox in Canada’s Nunavut region, as revealed in a recent...
Jul 24, 2018 | Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
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 polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is heavily dependent on sea ice, since...
May 29, 2018 | Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
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 Arctic circle. In Siberia it has been little studied for now, but...
Apr 10, 2018 | Herding, Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
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 livestock management, disease reduction and sustainability of ecosystem...
