News

Mid-term meeting in Zakopane

Impressions from the productive workshops, field trips, and camera deployment during the mid-term meeting in May 2025 in Zakopane and Tatra National Park.

Photogenic fox

A curious fox in the snowy Tatra Mountains

Wolf in Tatra NP

Following the recent stork observation, here's an image of a wolf in Tatra National Park, taken in February.

Flock of Storks

A feathered spectacle caught on camera in the Doñana National Park

OFFER: STUDENT/PHD STUDENT POSITION

Posts We invite applications for a student/PhD student position within the National Science Centre (NCN) scholarship framework, as part of the project WildINTEL – “Building a scalable WILDlife monitoring system by integrating remote camera sampling and artificial INTELligence with Essential Biodiversity Variables” (2023/05/Y/NZ8/00104).

Lynx caught on camera

Captured with a camera trap in the Tatra Mountains, this young female can be recognised by its unique spots. She was born in 2023.

Snowed-in camera (Tatra)

Winter conditions in the Tatra Mountains highlight design challenges for camera traps. Heavy snowfall has made some locations unsuitable, with cameras completely buried in snow.

Cameras deployed in Tatra

First pics from Tatra! The first inspection of the cameras has largely exceeded our expectations. Read the full note

Konstanz Workshop

Camera-trapping workshop On November 11-14 we took part in the workshop “Advancing Wildlife Monitoring through Camera Trapping Across Europe” organized in Konstanz (Germany) by Dr. Fabiola Iannarilli from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. Read more

CARNib 2024

1st Iberian meeting of the Terrestrial Carnivores Group – SECEM 28 and 29 September 2024 – Aracena, Spain Presentation 1: Dog invasions in protected areas. A study using camera traps, citizen science and artificial intelligence Presentation 2: Integrating photo-trapping, artificial intelligence and citizen science to understand species coexistence Read more

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

1st Iberian meeting of the Terrestrial Carnivores Group – SECEM

7th European Congress of Conservation Biology

Media

Mid-term meeting in Poland

Workshop participation

Snowed In: Challenges of Wildlife Monitoring in the Tatra Mountains