Sep 8, 2014 | Fish, News, Wildlife Monitoring
Qatar is home to a great diversity of marine animals. Each year, hundreds of whale sharks return to the Qatari waters near the Al Shaheen oil field, in the north of Qatar. To protect the whale sharks and help preserve this endangered species, a research project was...
Aug 26, 2014 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
100 argos satellite transmitters were deployed on adult green turtles and 19 loggerhead turtles for the DYMITILE project. 20 new Argos will be deployed in 2014 and 2015 on loggerhead turtles accidentally caught by fishermen in the Reunion. The project is called COCA...
Mar 16, 2014 | Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, hosted every year by the International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS), is a unique event that draws participants from around the world, from across disciplines and cultures to a common interest and objective: the...
Feb 22, 2014 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
In February of 2014, we bought a goniometer from CLS in order to find that PTT and any other that could be lost in the future. We drove to Sierra de Filabres, to a location about two kilometers away from our last received position, an arid hilly area with a very...
Dec 2, 2013 | Argos Forum, Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Understanding movements of avian scavengers on both sides of the Equator Tracking carnaby’s cockatoos in Western Australia Natal dispersal of eagle owls: a European scale project Studying marabou storks around the lake Victoria basin Spatio-temporal tracking of common...
Oct 20, 2013 | Birds, News, Wildlife Monitoring
The Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja), commonly known as the “gavião-real” in the Brazilian Amazon, is the most powerful bird of prey from Americas. Initially, we could see the Harpy Eagle in Mexico, Central America and South America. The population of the species that is...