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Camera trap photo of a snow leopard on the Tibetan plateau (photo: Panthera)-RRB-
The camera trap photo taken at Noyon soum which is adjacent to the Tost mountains For more on snow leopard conservation and research in Mongolia read our recent interview with Dr Bariushaa Munkhtsog of the Mongolia Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation.
Another day, another stunning
camera trap photo.
When we received the 2015
camera trap photos from Mongolia, we immediately started searching for Anu and her offspring.
Not exact matches
The
photos were made with
camera traps — automated
cameras equipped with infrared triggers.
New
photos captured by a
camera trap, however, have given conservationists hope for the species on the island.
Camera traps — which have been placed throughout Sabah, Borneo, as part of a Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research project — captured
photos and video of several different otter species.
The system has also led to some unexpected results: Conservationists «rediscovered» the Sumatran short - eared rabbit — which hadn't been seen in more than 80 years — thanks to a
photo captured by the
camera traps.
Wanting to tap into the power of crowdsourcing, a team of researchers at the UK's University of Surrey have built the Wildsense Tigers app for iPad that pulls tourist
photos from Flickr and Instagram as well as biologist's
camera trap feeds and uses facial recognition and location data to compile a more complete census of tigers in the wild.