Biologists are using drones to scare wolves away from cattle. They blast sounds like the AC/DC song “Thunderstruck” and ...

Searching where salmon lay eggs is getting a boost from some eyes in the sky. Researchers are testing drones to survey for salmon nests.

Searching where salmon lay eggs is getting a boost from some eyes in the sky. Researchers are testing drones to survey for salmon nests.

To test and train the AI model’s accuracy, researchers use volunteers on Zooniverse. It is a website anyone can sign up for and use to participate in research as a citizen scientist.

Nearly 14,000 volunteers took part in the citizen science project Iguanas from Above, helping to count endangered Galapagos marine iguanas through an online survey—and in doing so, contributed ...

When It Comes to Counting Wildlife, Drones Are More Accurate Than People Technology could be a conservation gamechanger, but we need to interrogate its impact on wildlife ...

In a groundbreaking study, Chinese scientists have turned to advanced technology to map the nation’s forests and count its trees. Using LiDAR (light detection and ranging) drones, researchers ...

But, until now, the accuracy of using drones to count wildlife was unclear," says the study's lead author, Jarrod Hodgson from the University's Environment Institute and School of Biological Sciences.

USGS research biologist Tony Fischbach says drones have proven to be safer, and they've helped with a long-running problem of understanding how many walruses just happen to be out of view ...