Camera traps are used by researchers as a powerful tool for studying wildlife: the images captured by these motion-triggered cameras provide deep insights into animal populations that are otherwise difficult, or impossible to gain. These insights assist researchers, policy makers, and on-ground environmental managers to make more informed decisions about wildlife conservation and management.
Through the Wildlife Spotter platform, researchers are getting assistance from citizen scientists to process the millions of images that camera traps generate.
Not only do the researchers benefit from Wildlife Spotter but citizen scientists have the opportunity to learn useful animal identification skills while contributing directly to scientific research. By spotting quolls, bandicoots, malleefowl, and many more animals, they also gained valuable insight into the scientific process that wildlife ecologists use to do their work, and the challenges facing field scientists studying our vast country.
Become a ‘Wildlife Spotter’ today and help save threatened species and preserve Australia’s iconic wildlife!