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It's #ubcgivingday today and we @WildCo are raising awareness and support for our exciting collaborative research project on reintroduced orangutans! Click the link to find out more bit.ly/3r7XzPs 🦧 @ubcforestry BOS Foundation IPB #orangutan #selfie #cameratrap

New Researchers Revealed! Mitch Fennell, Masters student in the Wildlife Coexistence Lab @WildCo_lab at UBCBiodiversity, explains his research camera trapping recreational and #wildlife activity in Cathedral Provincial Park. Mitch Fennell #biodiversity youtu.be/SAY_YGAM9KI

Good news in BC today, pls RT! Through the Together for Wildlife Initiative, there will be several graduate student awards for BC-based wildlife research. Funding levels competitive with NSERC! Details on application will be posted in coming weeks to: iurc.ca

Currently reading The wild cats among us fvcurrent.com/article/fraser… - excellent article featuring Michael Procko's @xprockox MSc research in Golden Ears Provincial Park @ubcforestry

#UBCForestry’s Mitch Fennell, Chris Beirne and Cole Burton examine the use of object detection in #CameraTrap image identification as a method to increase processing efficiency and accelerate research and application in #Ecology. Read more: bit.ly/3vRw8uA

#NewPaper: Behavioral “bycatch” from #cameratrap surveys yields insights on prey responses to human-mediated predation risk @wildco.bsky.social on Bluesky @ubcforestry Ecology and Evolution #OpenAccess 🧵1/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…

And more cheers for his excellent committee members Adam ™ Ford and Tara Martin, external examiner Karen Hodges, and @wildco.bsky.social on Bluesky helpers!

I did a thing!

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it could be one of nearly two hundred species. That doesn't even narrow it down.

Did animals really roam wild during lockdowns in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic? Come to my #ESA2022 #CSEE2022 talk Thursday at 9:15 am in 514A to learn what I and 162 of my closest co-authors found from worldwide #cameratrap sampling during the #anthropause

Kudos to @arbmarta for designing and implementing this study showing how people can use social media to facilitate #humanwildlifecoexistence in the urban-wildland interface @ubcforestry @wildco.bsky.social on Bluesky sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Highlights: - Bears like high EVI (greenness) = forests most of the time, but ripe crops too 🌲🌾🍎 - Bears are more nocturnal in human areas 🌌 - Bears on southern Vancouver Island aren't all hibernating!

Want to learn more about density estimation using camera traps? 📸 Register for our webinar, "An Approachable Overview of Camera Trap Density Models" - Feb 8 @ 12:00PM PST us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

The Avalanche Canada mobile app is finally back. Everyone should go download - app.avalanche.ca

1) A handbook, "Using Camera Traps to Estimate Medium and Large Mammal Density: Comparison of Methods and Recommendations for Wildlife Managers" researchgate.net/publication/36…

The Wildlife Insights AI team is running a survey to learn more about camera trap data management practices: docs.google.com/forms/d/1DspWE… If you are an ecologist, please respond! If you are a technologist who works with ecologists, please circulate to your collaborators! Thanks!

📣 Parks Canada is pleased to announce that bison roam free in Banff National Park, Parks Canada following the Plains Bison Reintroduction Pilot. 📣 We thank everyone for their ongoing support and input on this reintroduction effort. Check out the final report on the pilot here: ow.ly/LiVb50OS5PS

#NewPaper by members of WildCAM: We synthesized data from 446 #cameratraps📷across 10 landscapes in western Canada, finding limited support for the “human shield hypothesis”🛡️that outdoor recreation🥾would repel predators 🐺and attract prey🦌...1/4

#NewPaper: Working with a huge team of 220 co-authors representing 102 projects in 21 countries, we analyzed data from 5400 #cameratraps to ask how #wildlife behaviours changed during the COVID-19 “anthropause” nature.com/articles/s4155… ..1/