Apr 4, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
One of our Argos users recently deployed the first satellite tagged, hard shelled turtles (greens and hawksbills) in Papua New Guinea. The Argos satellite tags will help to understand the movement of one of the world’s oldest creatures and will play an...
Mar 25, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The Caspian seal (Pusa caspica) is a small-bodied, ice-breeding phocid, endemic to the landlocked Caspian Sea in Central Asia. The species is listed as ‘Endangered’ by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), having declined by around 90% from a...
Mar 18, 2018 | Land Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
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 wild animal care center. Thus Gilles Moyne, the director of the center,...
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...
Mar 14, 2018 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Martinique hosts key areas defined as development habitats for green and hawksbill turtles. In this context, the local wildlife management and conservation structures and the National Action Plans recommend to study the importance of these feeding sites for sea...
Mar 12, 2018 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) is responsible for the ecosystem-based management of fisheries in the Southern Ocean. The ‘ecosystem approach’ means that the effects of commercial fishing must take into...
