scholarly journals Benefits of incorporating a scat-detection dog into wildlife monitoring: a case study of Pyrenean brown bear

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérôme Sentilles ◽  
Cécile Vanpé ◽  
Pierre-Yves Quenette
Keyword(s):  
Brown Bear ◽  
Wildlife Monitoring ◽  
Detection Dog

scholarly journals A low cost way for assessing bird risk hazards in power lines: Fixed-wing small unmanned aircraft systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Mulero-Pázmány ◽  
Juan José Negro ◽  
Miguel Ferrer
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft ◽  
Unmanned Aircraft Systems ◽  
Power Lines ◽  
Wildlife Monitoring ◽  
Aircraft Systems ◽  
Practical Tool ◽  
Conservation Projects ◽  
Technical Solutions

Accidents on power lines are one of the most important causes of man-induced mortality for raptors and soaring birds. The factors that condition the hazard have been extensively studied, and currently there are a variety of technical solutions available to mitigate the risk. Most of the resources in conservation projects to reduce avian mortality now are invested in fieldwork to monitor the lines, which diverts the resources available to install actual corrective measures to mitigate bird hazard. Little progress has been achieved in the methodology to characterize line risk, which is an expensive, tedious, and time-consuming task. In this work we describe the use of low cost small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS) equipped with on-board cameras for power line surveillance. As a case study, we characterized four power lines, geo-referenced every pylon in selected portions, and assessed their hazard for birds. We compare the effectiveness of two variants of the sUAS method for data acquisition and two methods of plane control. This work provides evidence of the usefulness of sUAS as a fast, inexpensive, and practical tool in conservation biology, adding to their already known applications in wildlife monitoring, the environmental impact assessment of infrastructures.

Non-invasive genotyping of the endangered Apennine brown bear: a case study not to let one's hair down

2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Lorenzini ◽  
Mario Posillico ◽  
Sandro Lovari ◽  
Annino Petrella
Keyword(s):  
Brown Bear ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Apennine Brown Bear

scholarly journals Visitor Counting and Monitoring in Forests Using Camera Traps: A Case Study from Bavaria (Southern Germany)

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 736
Author(s):  
Gerd Lupp ◽  
Valerie Kantelberg ◽  
Bernhard Förster ◽  
Carolina Honert ◽  
Johannes Naumann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
National Parks ◽  
Camera Traps ◽  
Wildlife Monitoring ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
Visitor Management ◽  
Recreation Areas ◽  
Outdoor Environments ◽  
Visitor Numbers ◽  
Correlation Factors

A variety of counting methods exist to analyze visitor numbers of outdoor settings such as national parks, recreation areas and urban green spaces, with sensor-based approaches being the most frequently applied. In this paper, we describe the application and practicality of camera traps originally designed for wildlife monitoring for visitor management purposes. The focus of the work is on the practicality of trigger camera traps and data collection for visitor monitoring from a more practice- and management-oriented perspective. Camera traps can provide interesting in-depth and detailed information about recreationists and are flexible and suitable for various uses; however, assessing the visual data manually requires significant staff and working time. To deal with the large amounts of data gathered for numbers of passersby and recreation activities, correlation factors between passersby and pictures were determined, so that the number of passersby related to the number of pictures taken per day or per other time unit could be established. In focusing on using the camera traps and assessing the generated data, it became clear that more studies have to be conducted to compare different methods of visitor monitoring and their accuracy in different outdoor environments.

scholarly journals Auditing wildlife

Koedoe ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.K. Reilly ◽  
Y. Reillly
Keyword(s):  
Population Based ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Wildlife Monitoring ◽  
Accounting Profession ◽  
Initial Sample ◽  
Sample Count ◽  
Wildlife Populations ◽  
Case Study Data

Reilly B.K. and Y. Reilly. 2003. Auditing wildlife. Koedoe 46(2): 97–102. Pretoria. ISSN 0075-6458. Accountants and auditors are increasingly confronted with the problem of auditing wildlife populations on game ranches as their clients' asset base expands into this industry. This paper aims to provide guidelines on these actions based on case study data and research in the field of wildlife monitoring. Parties entering into dispute on numbers of animals on a property often resort to their auditors for advice. This paper tracks a method of deciding on whether or not to audit the population based on wildlife value and an initial sample count. This will act as a guideline for the accounting profession when confronted by this problem.

scholarly journals Case Study: An Evaluation of Detection Dog Generalization to a Large Quantity of an Unknown Explosive in the Field

Animals ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1341
Author(s):  
Edgar O. Aviles-Rosa ◽  
Gordon McGuinness ◽  
Nathaniel J. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Training Sample ◽  
The Other ◽  
Explosive Detection ◽  
Large Sample ◽  
The One ◽  
Detection Dog

Two explosive detection dogs were deployed to search a suspicious bag, and failed to detect 13 kg of explosive within. The aim of this research was to further evaluate this incident. First, dog teams (N = 7) searched four bags in a similar scenario. One bag contained the same 13 kg of explosive, two bags were blanks, and the other contained the training sample that the agency routinely used for training. All dogs detected the training sample, but most (5/7) did not alert to the 13 kg sample. Subsequently, dogs received two trials in a line up with a 30 g subsample of the explosive to evaluate whether they could generalize to a smaller quantity. Most dogs (6/7) alerted to the subsample at least once. Finally, dogs were trained with the 30 g subsample and later tested with the 13 kg sample. Only three dogs spontaneously generalized to the large sample after training with the small subsample. Dogs’ alert rate to the 13 kg sample was improved with training in subsequent trials with the 13 kg sample. This result indicates that explosive detection dogs may not generalize to a target odor at a significantly higher quantity relative to the one used in training, highlighting the importance of conducting such training.

scholarly journals Urban Animals—Domestic, Stray, and Wild: Notes from a Bear Repopulation Project in the Alps

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 576-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Mubi Brighenti ◽  
Andrea Pavoni
Keyword(s):  
Brown Bear ◽  
Boundary Line ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
The Alps ◽  
Urban Contexts ◽  
Illustrative Case Study

Abstract This piece explores “domesticity” as a social territory defined by its relationship with the conceptual and ecological space of “the wild,” and asks whether these spaces stand in opposition to each other or more subtle relations of co-implication are at play. As we look into the domestic and the wild, a conceptual map of notions emerges, including the public, the common, the civilized, and the barbarian. The paper suggests the domestic and the wild constitute two semiotic-ecological domains constantly stretching into each other without any stable or even clear boundary line, and it elaborates on a series of corollaries for studying non-human animals in urban contexts. As an illustrative case study, we follow the story of Daniza, a wild brown bear introduced in the Brenta Natural Park on the Italian Alps in the 2000s. Declared a “dangerous animal,” Daniza was accidentally, and controversially, killed by the public authorities in 2014.

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