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UAV Design Challenge for Wildlife Conservation

UAV Design Challenge for Wildlife Conservation

Posting at O’Reilly Animals, Edie Freedman let me know about the Wildlife Conservation UAV Challenge: build a drone to help stop rhino poaching, and you could win as much as $25,000 and get to fly your drone in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

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Flashback: Caught in the Act

Flashback: Caught in the Act

This week’s Flashback, from the pages of MAKE Volume 15, shows how authors Jim Moir and Ken Lange devised a camera setup to auto-trigger photos of the critters who came to visit their backyards in the dead of night. Judging from the multitude of pictures they’ve gathered over the years, there is no shortage of […]

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Migratory birds

Migratory birds

Goldenrod Foundation has created this nifty animated map to show how migratory birds use Plymouth Beach in Massachusetts. Check out their interactive map showing the migratory path of some of the birds that pass through Plymouth. It is fairly amazing to see that the birds seem to fly to specific regions and towns in far […]

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