Special Issue: Key frontiers in camera trapping research

Marcus Rowcliffe Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Regent's Park, London, United Kingdom   Biodiversity monitoring makes a central scientific contribution to conservation management and environmental policy. Without it, we have an impaired evidence-base for decision-making in areas such as species management, and forest and agriculture policy. Yet for the world’s terrestrial mammals, traditional … Continue reading Special Issue: Key frontiers in camera trapping research

How much data is enough? Investigating how spatial data resolution impacts conservation decision making

What information do you need to make a good decision? It might seem like an obvious question, but given the increasing array of remote data sources, it can be hard to pick one. On the one hand, you don’t want to make the wrong decision based on incomplete data, but working with very high resolution … Continue reading How much data is enough? Investigating how spatial data resolution impacts conservation decision making

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation – three years on…

In 2014 we launched Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, an open-access journal to support communication and collaboration among experts in remote sensing, ecology and conservation science. As we approach our second full year of publication, we thought we would reflect on how the journal has done to date, and take a look at what … Continue reading Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation – three years on…

How to map 50,000 km2 of savannah without leaving your office

By Henrike SchulteTobuhne Let’s go on a quick excursion to the West African savannah! Simply open Google Earth or Google maps (make sure you have satellite view enabled), and gradually zoom in on the part of West Africa where Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger meet. You’ll spot a vaguely sine-wave shape of green standing out from … Continue reading How to map 50,000 km2 of savannah without leaving your office

By sharing camera trap data we can monitor wildlife status globally

By Timothy G. O’Brien, Wildlife Conservation Society, 2300 Southern Blvd, Bronx NY 10460 USA Article 29 of the Nagoya Protocol mandates all signatories to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to monitor their implementation of CBD obligations and document progress toward Aichi 2020 targets. Given the multi-dimensional character of biodiversity, a single, comprehensive metric is clearly not … Continue reading By sharing camera trap data we can monitor wildlife status globally