March 2013
Brown Bears and Shit Science
In my on-going attempt to improve myself I recently attended a lecture by Paul Eric Aspholm on brown bear tracking. This was a much more enjoyable and informative lecture than the last one attended and full of such interesting facts that I just had to share them! Though the brown bear (Ursos arctos) is found […]
Could the ‘drone’ be a new technology to survey African wildlife?
Nazinga Game Ranch is a protected area in southern Burkina Faso, dominated by clear shrub and woody savannah and home to one of the most important elephant populations of the Western Africa. Researchers from the University of Gembloux Agrobiotech in Belgium tested one of the first unmanned aerial surveys to study the wildlife of Nazinga. […]
Fantastic Mr Fox
At the launch of our recent college Green Week, Trinity College presented the final stages of its bid to secure the Green Flag Award. Part of the assessment comprised a summary of the plants and animals which, along with the rarefied species of Drama studientis and the Lesser Spotted Theoretical Physicist, contribute to campus biodiversity. […]