Nov 7, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Tracking leatherback turtles can help in protecting them at both a local scale, close to their nesting beach, and a basin-scale, when they migrate. The population from the Gulf of Guinea is currently the world’s largest, but fisheries, removal of adults from beaches...
Oct 17, 2023 | Birds, Fish, Land Animals, Marine Animals, News, Wildlife Monitoring
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. Debbie Stakem has been providing technical support to all North American...
Sep 18, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Southern Ocean seals are frequently tracked marine animals. They thus provide a lot of environmental data on an otherwise poorly observed ocean. This includes bathymetry of the Antarctica continental shelf, thanks to the recorded depths of their dives. Measuring in...
Sep 4, 2023 | Birds, Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
King penguins breed on a few colonies spread around the Southern Ocean. Some years are more successful than others in that respect, and understanding why could help in protecting such threatened species. Argos can help in better assessing the reasons. King penguins...
Aug 21, 2023 | Marine Animals, Wildlife Monitoring
Harbour seals living in the North Sea are exposed to a heavy ship traffic. New Argos archival tags enable to record ambient sounds, so that noise exposures can be quantified at the seals’ level. A number of high amplitude noise events were detected, including in...
Aug 8, 2023 | Birds, Wildlife Monitoring
Montagu’s harriers are migratory raptors wintering in Africa from Europe. However, once there and as many migrant birds, they do not stay at the same place during the whole winter, but move from site to site. Understanding this behaviour can give hints on the...
