Animal movement technologies have already significantly advanced our understanding of the natural world, from uncovering previously mysterious migration patterns and key movement corridors to demonstrating the impacts of anthropogenic pressures and climate change. Continuing advances in the development of technologies for collecting and transmitting bio-logging data, combined with the increased availability of high-resolution environmental data and analytical developments in movement modelling, are opening doors to novel applications. However, there are still major gaps in the space, including mobilizing movement data to translate data from tracking devices into insights for application in policy and practice. This group is a place for the animal movement community to connect and discuss our efforts to advance the field.
Resources for beginners
Learn about WILDLABS Animal Movement research projects
- MoveBON Initiative Announcement
- MoveBON Follow-Up Discussion
- Virtual Meetup Season 4: Tracking Progress (A WILDLABS research project on movement ecology)
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WILDLABS & World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
I'm the WILDLABS Research Specialist at WWF-US



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Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
I am an ecologist and program manager with experience leading collaborative research projects in international settings. I specialize in the application of animal tracking data to conserve migratory species on a changing planet.



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Ph.D Speech-Hearing Sciences; 3D Designer/Printer interested in building/testing/deploying standardized environmental recording platforms for scientists and engineers in developing countries.
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Running a Tech for Good initiative at Cambridge Consultants, looking for organisations who need help developing new technology for conservation


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I am a Senior researcher and PI in Conservation and Animal Ecology at Fondazione Edmund Mach, Trento, Italy. I am coordinator of EUROMAMMALS, member of the advisory board of the Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration at CMS, and President of the International Bio-Logging Society
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Rimba Satwa Foundation (RSF), an Indonesian elephant conservation NGO, is employing GPS collars on elephants to mitigate human-elephant conflicts. RSF aims to enhance collar usage, surveillance, and automation for...
28 May 2023
Filter Last X Locations - is a new super simple but super powerful moveapp. https://moveapps.org/apps/browser/ebe11063-fd98-4d8d-a22d-f143ec434b6f I will be using this to send me the latest positions of all active...
23 May 2023
This article compares and contrasts the success of their wolf monitoring efforts with both collars and camera traps. The camera traps were intended to help researchers identify individual wolves within the population,...
5 May 2023
This news article discusses the first study to track Ethiopian wolves since 1992. The study focused on adult wolves from six packs in the Simien Mountains and used Lotek LiteTrack Iridium 250 collars. Community members...
5 May 2023
Since its launch in 1999, the BirdCast project has used weather radar data to track and forecast bird migrations across the U.S. In recent years, technology such as cloud computing and machine learning have helped make...
26 April 2023
Quick feature of Virgina Tech project using camera traps and biologgers to track bobcats, collecting data to inform human-wildlife coexistance efforts
26 April 2023
The Innovation in Practice edition of Methods in Ecology and Evolution is still seeking proposals about conservation technology
6 March 2023
Last week's Variety Hour is now up on youtube. It was a great session - we covered Moveapps, an awesome community project building marine biologgers, chatgpt and google earth engine vs microsoft's planetary computer....
3 March 2023
The Zoological Society of London, with the support of WILDLABS and the UK Space Agency, are proud to publish this new guide to satellite technologies for tracking wildlife.
17 February 2023
Researchers and conservationists are embarking on a bold initiative to save the world's most trafficked wild mammal — the pangolin
16 February 2023
As part of the AniMove eLearning programme, you are now able to stream 2022 Animal movement & remote sensing course lectures opensource.
10 February 2023
Hi! I created a new tutorial video on how to annotate high density acceleration data using Firetail 10 (www.firetail.de). In particular, I cover * how to automatically segment your data * how to edit and modify...
8 February 2023
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Hi everyone, The Int Biologging Society asked us to share this call, passing along in case anyone can participate: ... |
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Animal Movement | 4 years 9 months ago | |
Hi all, Starlink is Ku and Ka-band as they are targetting broadband, so you're looking at similar large(ish) transmit / receive dishes as traditonal VSAT, and they will POE... |
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Animal Movement | 4 years 9 months ago | |
I would like to introduce the Terrapin Tracker project: https://conservationx.com/project/key/terrapintracker This project was recently... |
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Animal Movement | 4 years 9 months ago | |
Hi Joaquin, If you email me, we can have a discussion of what exactly you need and how we can help. Dave |
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Animal Movement | 4 years 10 months ago | |
Hi Tim and also Thomas Thanks for your comments. It is fantastic that there have been so many replies to this thread in response to the request for thoughts,... |
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Animal Movement | 4 years 11 months ago | |
the drop off paper https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.13231 |
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Animal Movement | 5 years 2 months ago | |
Hello Everyone, I hope that this is not a repost; however, I could not find anything from Alasdair. I apologize in advance if I... |
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Animal Movement | 5 years 2 months ago | |
Thanks for asking Harold, We work with any off the shelf VHF tag, you can use tags already in the field or you can order tags from any of the manufactureres, just have to... |
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Animal Movement | 5 years 3 months ago | |
Thanks Alasdair So there are low double figure thousands just with the various services of satellite collars. Then surely high tens of thousands, maybe low hundreds of... |
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Animal Movement | 5 years 4 months ago | |
HI there, Biotrack combined Avian GPS SOB tag & PicoPip AG317 Tag on the back of Hawfinch. H |
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Animal Movement | 5 years 5 months ago | |
Fantastic news, Alasdair. Indeed timely. I was wondering what the finiancial impliation for one unit will be? A price range will suffice. Thanks. C |
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Animal Movement | 5 years 7 months ago | |
Hi Natalie, Interesting request. I may be able to help and am working in this area in Australia to track both native and introduced species. Would you please enlighten me with... |
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Animal Movement | 5 years 7 months ago |