Overview
Camera traps are motion-activated cameras used in wildlife conservation to capture images or videos of animals in their natural habitats. These devices help researchers monitor species presence, behaviour, and population dynamics without human interference, providing valuable data for conservation efforts.
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Products
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The Mothbox
The Mothbox is a low-cost, high-performance insect monitor. It features a power efficient and lightweight design meant to help field biologists deploy it in the depths of the jungles, and its low-cost nature means you can build one to study the biodiversity at your home!
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Insect Detect
The Insect Detect DIY camera trap can be used for non-invasive automated monitoring of flower-visiting insects and is based on low-cost off-the-shelf hardware components combined with open-source software. Insects are detected and tracked in real time on-device.
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EzyLure™
EzyLure Dispenser is a set-and-forget device that automatically dispenses fresh lure. Designed to be long-life and compatible with a variety of lures/attractants.Developed for use with camera monitoring systems and other Critter Solutions technologies.
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CritterPic®
CritterPic provides real-time monitoring of small cryptic species and pest species through instant image feeds and automatic species identification.
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Ursus Trail Camera
An affordable, reliable and robust (IP67) trail camera. At home in Surrey, Scotland, Sumatra or the Sahara, and designed with conservation-use in mind.
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Discussion
Mothbox wins 2025 WILDLABS Award!
Brianna Johns
The Mothbox team (@briannajohns, @hikinghack, @Hubertszcz, @wellreadpanda, @alex_rogers, @mothyash) is excited to announce that we’ve won a 50k grant to create a mass-...
Discussion
We have spent the past 9 months taking the lessons learnt from the AMI system to build an automated moth monitoring system that addresses the main issues people...
Article
HawkEars: a high-performance bird sound classifier for Canada
Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
HawkEars is a deep learning model designed specifically to recognize the calls of 328 Canadian bird species and 13 amphibians.
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Reviews
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Free to use / Stable / Reliable / Complex / Resource intensive /Full Review
MegaDetector is probably the most important AI tool in a camera trapping toolbox! Using it to sort images into animal, human, vehicle and blank is a huge time saver. It can be used for video, but requires...
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Clear instructions / Day and night sensors / Ease of setup / Free to use / Good accompanying software / High durability / Heavy /Full Review
A very nice software to monitor animals. Take wonderful pictures.
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Easy to use / Free to use / Stable / Reliable /Full Review
Great tool we have used for many of our Challenges, the detector itself is very preformant but it's the supporting code that makes it super easy to use and quick to deploy.
Organisations
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Alchemy Software
Alchemy Software is a small, friendly software development company based in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI)
The ABMI is a non-profit, value-neutral biodiversity and land cover monitoring organization in Alberta, Canada. We have over 15 years of data freely available for use and download by anyone for any purpose.
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Gathering for Open Science Hardware (GOSH)
GOSH is a global community of researchers, hardware developers, educators, community scientists, and more dedicated to making open science hardware ubiquitous by 2025.
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Critter Solutions
Critter Solutions is a technology research and development company based in New Zealand focused on R&D and delivering innovative conservation technologies.
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NatureSpy
Non-profit experts in camera traps. We ship thousands of cameras annually across UK, Europe and the RoW. With a highly experienced team and 10 years in business, we offer discounts and support to NGOs and our aim is to ensure the kit does the job you need.
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Kitware
Kitware develops software for web visualization, data storage, build system generation, media analysis, cloud computing and more.