NEW TECHNOLOGY FOR BIODIVERSITY TRACKING HIGHLIGHTED BY NATIONAL MEDIA

These lightweight and long-lasting tracking devices were developed by Movetech Telemetry, a collaborative project between the University of East Anglia (UEA), the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), CIBIO-InBIO, University of Porto, Ce3C and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.

This new technology, highlighted by various national media outlets, was designed to enable researchers to remotely collect valuable biological information about different species without recapturing the animals, since these devices transmit data remotely via mobile phone networks. The small size and advanced solar cell displays also allow the tracking of smaller animals in less sunny locations.
According to CIBIO-InBIO researcher João Paulo Silva, “these devices can be used to monitor small animals and access more accurate information, thus enabling more knowledge on the species’ behaviour and spatial ecology”.
In the future, this technology will be very useful in research studies on animal behaviour and monitoring, since the costs of this equipment are significantly reduced allowing researchers to gather more data and answer more questions than ever before.

To know more about this topic, please follow the links below:
“Investigadores desenvolvem dispositivo que permite monitorizar aves remotamente” | JM Madeira | March 9 , 2017 (Information available in Portuguese)
“Investigadores desenvolvem dispositivo que permite monitorizar aves remotamente” | Techitt | March 9 , 2017 (Information available in Portuguese)

To access the national press release for this study, please click here.

To visit the offcial website of Movetech Telemetry, please click here.