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*THREAD* A couple of talks left to finish #RSPBScieConf19, focusing on technology
Senior Tech Officer, Nigel Butcher: the nest camerašŸ“·developed so successfully 15 years ago needed updating on a budget that would ensure roll out on a large scale. He reports on benefits of new system and provides some results of its first deployments in 2019 #RSPBScieConf19
Next, back to Gola with @bio_carta. A Conservation Data Management Unit and Microsoft AI for Earth project augments the manual camera trap image labelling process with an AI algorithm which prefilters and detects images containing animals. Includes ā€˜animal detector gameā€™!
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*THREAD* Second session today at #RSPBScieConf19 features @Natures_Voice work on "Saving Nature Through People" #conservationscience #socialscience
@Natures_Voice First up: @tomswinfield on tropical forest restorationšŸŒ“šŸŒ³ Private sector restoration concessions must be profitable if they are to be a scaleable restoration option. An enabling regulatory environment is needed. @hutan_harapan @ICRAF @BurungIndonesia #RSPBScieConf19
@Natures_Voice @Tomswinfield @hutan_harapan @ICRAF @BurungIndonesia Next, Sierra Leone: Reconciling #biodiversity and #livelihoods in high biodiversity developing world settings is a perennial problem. New @Darwin_Defra project seeks to achieve this goal in greater #Gola landscape @FionaJSanderson bit.ly/2qCUlrc bit.ly/33n1Tve
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*THREAD* This #RSPBScieConf19 session thread presents advances in @Natures_Voice's goal to champion land well-managed for nature #ornithology #conservationscience
@Natures_Voice Now @Tomfinch89 shows that combining high-yield farmland with natural habitat and low-yield farmland can reconcile conflict between food production and nature conservation @RSPBScience @_BTO @CamZoology @savebutterflies and @NaturalEngland.

*Paper here* conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111ā€¦
@Natures_Voice @tomfinch89 @_BTO @CamZoology @savebutterflies @NaturalEngland In the first of a set of #agri-environment talks @pebellamy tests the effectiveness of targeted grants in delivering increases in #woodland birds @ForestryComm @NaturalEngland #RSPBScieConf19
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*THREAD* This #RSPBScieConf19 session thread focuses on @Natures_Voice's priority work "Saving species" in the UK and further afieldā€¦
#ornithology #conservationscience
@Natures_Voice What's the best way to select species for habitat specific indicators? PhD student @enya_oreilly describes a quantitative method combining a speciesā€™ relative habitat use with a niche-based selection framework to develop regional indicators for EU forests @ueaceec @biouea #PECBMS
@Natures_Voice @enya_oreilly @ueaceec @biouea Next, Nick Wilkinson on Twite. Population recovery in South Pennines will likely require improvements in productivity & first-year survival. Findings include the use of bracken for nesting, one of the two main habitat types, may represent an ecological trap #RSPBScieConf2019
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