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Our tapir study reported by Duke University
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Our tapir study reported by Duke University

Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment reports on our paper in Peer J demonstrating that FIT can be used to monitor tapir populations in the...

22 May 2018 WildTrack
ConservationFIT: update for ex-situ partners
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ConservationFIT: update for ex-situ partners

From Karin Schwartz, PhD, Scientific Coordinator for Ex-Situ Partners, ConservationFIT

05 May 2018 WildTrack
From bushmen to biometrics in Namibia
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From bushmen to biometrics in Namibia

We recently visited Namibia with Susan and Ray Ellis, founders of Footpath pictures. They produced a beautiful short film that relates how footprints produce biometrics...

20 Apr 2018 WildTrack
Giant panda publication in Biological Conservation
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Giant panda publication in Biological Conservation

With co-authors from Duke Kunshan University and the Chinese Center for Research and Conservation of the Giant Panda, we report on the use of footprints...

26 Jan 2018 WildTrack
Cheetah + sand = footprints? Not quite so fast…
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Cheetah + sand = footprints? Not quite so fast…

ConservationFIT is partnering with organisations that host ‘ambassador’ animals whose footprints can help us protect their free-ranging cousins. Oregon’s Wildlife Safari is helping us by...

10 Jan 2018 WildTrack
Using footprints to identify and monitor Giant panda in the wild
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Using footprints to identify and monitor Giant panda in the wild

We’ve been collecting data for this paper for the last three years - trudging up vertical slopes in the eastern Himalayas and poring over snowy...

21 Dec 2017 WildTrack