News

📢 New publication from the WildINTEL team! 🐾📸

How widely is artificial intelligence actually used in wildlife monitoring? New study, “More Tools Than Users: A Scoping Review of Image-Processing Automation in Mammal Camera Trapping”, published in Mammal Review, explores the growing role of AI in camera-trap research. One surprising finding: despite rapid advances in AI tools, only 9%

WildINTEL at the Eurosite Annual Meeting 2026!

2.-4.November 2026, Seville, Spain WildINTEL participated in the Eurosite Annual Meeting 2026. During the Conservation & Monitoring workshop, Dr Simone Santoro presented “WildINTEL: from camera traps to open data and EBV's”.

Compilation of ~5000 camtrap images into a 15min movie

🐻🦌🐺Ever wondered what happens at one camera-trap site over almost two years? We compiled all images (~5000) from Site 12 in the Polish Tatra National Park into a 15min short film. Watch the full story from October 2024 to August 2026. Available in both English and Polish. 🎥English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2Ajzjar72A 🎥Polish:

New Tatra images on Zooniverse

🏔️📸 Today we're adding new camera-trap images from the Tatra National Park to our European Camera Trap Zooniverse Project.🐻🐺🦌🦊What will you discover? Help us identify the wildlife captured by our cameras and contribute to European biodiversity research. Every classification counts – whether you identify 5 images or 500. 💚

Successful symposium of WildINTEL and BIG_PICTURE at ECCB 2026!

Earlier this month, the WildINTEL and BIG_PICTURE projects joined forces at the 8th European Congress of Conservation Biology (ECCB 2026) in Leiden to host a two-part symposium on the future of camera-trap based wildlife monitoring. Across 12 presentations, researchers from both biodiversa+ projects and partner institutions shared the latest advances

Hitchhiking

An unexpected partnership in Espacio Natural de Doñana!A fallow deer (Dama dama) shares the forest with an Iberian magpie (Cyanopica cooki). These intelligent birds are often seen following large mammals, feeding on insects stirred up by their movement and sometimes helping remove parasites, a fascinating example of wildlife interactions captured

🎉New Publication!🎉 in Science from the WildINTEL team

We are pleased to announce a new scientific publication by members of the WildINTEL team. The article, "Changes in wildlife activity patterns in response to war in Ukraine", published in Science, reveals that the Russian invasion of Ukraine caused immediate changes in wildlife behaviour in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Using

Eyes into the wild

with the European Camera Trap Project. Anyone can take a look into Europe’s wild nature, see rare animals inextraordinary situations, and at the same time help with an importantscientific project - all without leaving home. Scientists from the WildINTEL project invite you to take part!

Madrid-midterm meeting

An intensive and highly productive meeting in Madrid, during which the project partners reviewed progress and planned the next steps for the WildINTEL project, was successfully concluded with a visit to Madrid's Botanical Garden.

Midterm meeting

WildINTEL partners are meeting in Madrid for the project’s midterm meeting to review progress and discuss the next steps in advancing EBVs monitoring with camera-trap data.

XVII SECEM Congress participation

We had the chance to share the WildIntel project at the XVII SECEM Sociedad Ibérica para la Conservación y Estudio de los Mamíferos - SECEM Congress! Nuria Selva presented the project, and Santiago Gutiérrez showcased Doñana findings on predator–prey links between European rabbits, Iberian hares, and mesocarnivores.

Cameras Oder Delta

40 cameras installed on the Polish side of the Oder Delta. 5 more will be installed tomorrow 👍

🎉New Publication!🎉

Essential tools but overlooked bias: artificial intelligence and citizen science classification affect camera trap data

📢 We’re Hiring!

Postdoctoral Position in Ecological Modelling Join the WildINTEL project and help shape the future of biodiversity monitoring! 🐾🌍 APPLY till 01.09.2025! More details in the full announcement: https://panel.iop.krakow.pl/uploads/232/WildINTEL_postdoc%20position_Krakow_ECOLOGY.pdf 🌍🐾WildINTEL – Work at the intersection of biodiversity science, AI, and remote sensing Contribute to innovative modelling approaches for wildlife monitoring Collaborate

Scientific publications

Essential tools but overlooked bias: artificial intelligence and citizen science classification affect camera trap data

Dog invasions in Protected Areas: a case study using camera trapping, citizen science and artificial intelligence

Congress participation

8th European Congress of Conservation Biology

7th International Congress on Biodiversity and Nature Conservation

1st Iberian meeting of the Terrestrial Carnivores Group – SECEM

Media

Mid-term meeting in Poland

Workshop participation

Challenges in the mountains – aligning them parallel to the ground.