Kilimanjaro Lion Conservation Project

Category: General | Date: Jul 31 2008 | By: Seamus

I think online wildlife tracking is an interesting way of showing the public what researchers and conservationists are doing. Its a technique that is going to become more common as the kinks get ironed out of the technology. I’ve set up a new category in my sidebar for links to other wildlife tracking sites, so if you come across any more then let me know (they’re under “wildlife tracking from your armchair”). Thanks Francis for the polar bear tracking link. The layout of the site is, well, clunky and devoid of pretty images (important so as to pander to folks like me). The google earth files are good though.

To answer your question Francis, Mike and I opted not to offer KMZ downloads as we wanted to scale the technology to the users of the site (ie. make it appropriate to the level of IT knowledge of people here), and the bandwidth available here. We’re kind of feeling our way around it though, and perhaps if the hit rate grows considerably we’ll enrich the site a bit more. Later this year I’d like to add another collar to the site.

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