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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- @TaliaSpeaker
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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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- @lhughey
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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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Prof at NC State University and Scientist at NC Museum of Natural Sciences



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I am biologist, I have studied wild life and ethnobiology at Amazon and caimans in Brazil
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Researcher at Forest Research Institute Baden-Wuerttemberg, Passive acoustic monitoring of woodcock
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- @Romain
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Biologist in Geneva
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- @NevilleCLS
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CLS (Collecte Localisation Satellites)
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Smart Parks
Founder of Smart Parks - www.smartparks.org / Founder of OpenCollar - https://opencollar.io



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Dzanga-Ndoki national park biodiversity monitoring



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- @HannahJasinski
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3 November 2017
In this From the Field interview, we speak to Dr. Raman Sukumar, a world renowned expert on Asian elephant conservation. He shares his thoughts on how technology could be used for mitigating elephant-human conflict, and...
5 April 2017
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29 March 2017
Are you ready for this year's #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge? In anticipation, we're counting down our ten favourite entries from last year. Do you think you can top these?
1 March 2017
The Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) is a training and capacity building programme that targets individuals from developing countries who are early in their conservation career and demonstrate leadership...
21 November 2016
Do you work on conserving Neotropical migratory birds? Do you need funding? Why not apply for a grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service through the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act's grant program? The...
8 November 2016
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25 July 2016
Holohil Systems is now accepting applications for grants to support the purchase of wildlife tracking equipment of up to CDN $2,000 from the Holohil's own product line. Applications are welcome from any geographical...
20 July 2016
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Current efforts to track endangered Green Sea Turtles rely on tags that cost upward of $2000 per unit. Alasdair Davies of the Zoological Society of London has been working with Luka Mustafa, a Shuttleworth Foundation...
27 May 2016
How do new colonies come about? And why do we observe young colonies to grow much more rapidly than their own production of chicks would allow them to? As Jana W. E. Jeglinski explains, cutting edge developments of...
25 April 2016
When Victoria Espinel, President and CEO of BSA | The Software Alliance, spoke at the WWF Fuller Symposium, she took us on a whistle-stop tour of case studies where software and data are transforming our understanding...
10 March 2016
Few recent technologies have been embraced by the ornithological community as rapidly as solar geolocation tracking devices. Although the first and rather large ‘geolocators’ became available more than two decades ago,...
9 March 2016
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Hey Stephanie,Thanks a lot! Sorry I missed your message but of course I can ask our users about their experience with sensors! |
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Animal Movement, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Marine Conservation, Protected Area Management Tools | 1 year 7 months ago | |
This was one of my all time favourite Variety Hour talks! @wschan gave us an awesome walk through the open-source low cost acceleratometer... |
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Animal Movement, Open Source Solutions, Sensors | 1 year 7 months ago | |
Makes sense if you have the cash... |
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Animal Movement, Climate Change, Sensors, Build Your Own Data Logger Community, Emerging Tech | 1 year 8 months ago | |
Hi Lars,One of the problems you identified with your Milsar units was the antenna being worn off. This was solved in our units by the antenna being epoxied into an abrasion... |
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Animal Movement | 1 year 8 months ago | |
The CLS Goniometer is an excellent tool for the job - I believe it is also available to rent (at least it used to). If you want to go the low-budget route I would consider... |
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Animal Movement | 1 year 8 months ago | |
Hi CaitlinI'd recommend https://naturecounters.com/ who from past experience will work with you to come up with a good trap design. Their approach is to use an IR to detect when... |
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Animal Movement | 1 year 9 months ago | |
Hi Tobias! This sounds great and I am looking forward to trying it out after returning from field work! Very cool with the Vectronic Activity data! I am looking forward... |
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Animal Movement, Software Development | 1 year 9 months ago | |
Hi! We have been working with Save Vietnam's Wildlife to track Pangolins for a couple of years now. You can read our Case Study here: We also documented the... |
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Animal Movement | 1 year 10 months ago | |
Do you have a wild animal tracking story that involves adventure or misadventure? Share it with us! From going around in circles for hours... |
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Animal Movement, Citizen Science, Drones, Geospatial | 2 years ago | |
Using Movepps, I set up an email alert to check the tag voltage of deployed GPs collars and alert me if the fall under a threshold.We are... |
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Animal Movement | 2 years ago | |
I have been working with Movebank to get better support for Vectronic Live Feed data. It is now much easier to import and work with these... |
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Animal Movement | 2 years 1 month ago | |
Thank you Thomas, I'll take a look. |
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Animal Movement | 2 years 1 month ago |