Monitoring Australia’s endangered species
while logging their habitats

Scent dogs are being replaced by cost-effective biomonitoring of threatened species. Technology will detection chemical signals of wildlife assemblages in the environment. " Little did we know that traces of wildlife presence float in the air and can be detected through traces of DNA."

Will the air sampling techniques operate with the pollution of heavy logging machinery to detect the scent of a koala or a glider? Will it cut through the thick smoke from (bush) fires that follow? Will traffic pollution allow allow the technology to pick up the airborne eDNA?
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Frère, C., et.al (2023). Koalas, friends, and foes -- the application of airborne edna for the biomonitoring of threatened species.
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.14784
#Koalas #glider #platypus #wildlife #conservation #BioMonitoring #dogs #ScentDogs #UAVs #eDNA #technosphere #olfaction #MoreData #NSWLogging #IndustrialLogging

Conserving Australia’s biodiversity requires a national reckoning with this vast continent’s lands, seas and waters

"Australia’s wildlife and ecosystems are iconic, integral to our national identity and loved the world over. But they’re often disregarded, destroyed and are suffering decline at alarming rates. More than 100 species extinct and 2000-plus threatened species and ecological communities: This is Australia’s unenviable conservation record since European colonisation, about 240 years ago."

"A new federal government in 2022 brought promise of ending environmental neglect, commitments to being “nature positive”, and a stated goal of “no new extinctions”. Central to this was the reform of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (EPBC Act)."

"It might seem a strange thing for a wildlife ecologist to say, but genuine progress for conservation in Australia does not hinge on more science. We know the threats and risks – we’re currently monitoring species to extinction."
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https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/opinion-and-analysis/2024/08/opinion-law-reform-for-nature/
#biodiversity #conservation #wildlife #EPBC #EPBCAct #NaturePositive #law #MoreData #EPBC #extinction #destruction #australia #SettlerSociety

#stayawhileandlisten

Don't we all #love #MoreData?
Don't we love to #aggregate #data to higher and higher levels?

If yes, then please take a moment to #scrutinize what type of #KnowledgeGain you are actually able to obtain and what #limitations aggregating imposes.

A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond
https://doi.org/10.1177/09593543231172495

Sir, we finished upgrading the RAID stack adding 200 TB to the current configuration.

Later that afternoon...