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Friday, December 02, 2011

Instant Wild – Images of wild animals are sent to you directly from small automatic cameras placed in remote locations.


The Zoological Society of London’s (ZSL) Instant WILD app and website sends Images triggered by wild animals walking past camera straight to you in real-time.
ZSL says the new technology will save field workers hours of vital time by asking users to help identify species from live camera trap photographs. Traditionally it could take one conservationist days to sort through photographs from a camera in order to log information from the pictures.
ZSL’s conservation director Professor Jonathan Baillie says:  "By asking people to help us identify species through the app, we are turning wildlife conservation into the massive team effort that it needs to be.
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