Apr 13, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Green turtles are found along the West African upwelling. A network of Marine Protected Areas has been established during the past 25 years. Its efficiency towards protecting green turtles can be studied using Argos satellite telemetry. Main Photo: Green turtle with...
Mar 13, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
European eels are a critically endangered species. They have a complex life-cycle with their spawning area thought to be in the Sargasso Sea. A study managed to track them to their breeding place for the first time using pop-up tags. Main Photo: European eel fitted...
Dec 20, 2022 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Assessing whether an endangered species visits the protected areas – or not – is an important indicator of their relevance. Tracking of loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean Sea show that modifying and adding protected area would be necessary for their conservation....
Nov 17, 2022 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Beluga whales are Arctic cetacean very sensitive to noises, including underwater ship noises. For a long time, scarcity of such ships in the region meant it wasn’t a concern. With ice-free routes opening for longer period with global climate change, the question now...
Sep 28, 2022 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
A new tag dedicated to large whale has been developped and tested. It enables to record dive behaviors, using a software detection event to better summarize and compress the data to be used during long-range travels over several months. As we saw in a previous...
Sep 1, 2022 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
At the end of March 2022, Cristina Rodríguez-Cabello researcher of the Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) in Santander (Spain), was working at her Centre when she received an unexpected yet exciting call from France. One of the archival tags she had attached to a...
