Abhishyant Kidangoor
Staff Writer and Video Producer at Mongabay
Staff writer & video producer @mongabay covering environment, climate & conservation tech | Past: @TIME @CNNnews18 | For tips and ideas: [email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
news.mongabay.com | Abhishyant Kidangoor
Snapshot USA is an annual project that aims to collate camera-trap data on mammals from across the country. Since it was launched in 2019, the project has received data from universities, Native American reservations, non-profit organizations and others from across the U.S.Over the past five years, the project has gathered data that include more than 890,000 image captures of mammals from about 12 million raw images.
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3 weeks ago |
news.mongabay.com | Abhishyant Kidangoor
Scientists have captured rare footage of female polar bears and their newborn cubs emerging from maternal dens in the Arctic. Using remote cameras and satellite collars, researchers were able to track down polar bear dens in Norway’s Svalbard region and get insights into their behavior. On analyzing the data, researchers found that the bears typically stayed in and around the dens for 12 days after first emerging from them; they were also found to abandon the dens earlier than previously thought.
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1 month ago |
news.mongabay.com | Abhishyant Kidangoor
Scientists have combined passive acoustic monitoring, machine-learning tools and aerial surveys to estimate the population of North Atlantic right whales in Cape Cod Bay. Using the method, researchers from Cornell University in the U.S. were able to estimate the daily population of the whales over a period of four months.
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1 month ago |
news.mongabay.com | Abhishyant Kidangoor
Ugandan conservationist Mwezi Badru Mugerwa has been awarded the Indianapolis Prize’s Emerging Conservationist Award for 2025. Mugerwa has dedicated the past 15 years working with local communities to stop the poaching of the African golden cat (Caracal aurata), a species endemic to West and Central Africa.
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2 months ago |
news.mongabay.com | Abhishyant Kidangoor
Scientists have developed and validated a DNA test kit to help detect the critically endangered Yangtze softshell turtle, a species on the very cusp of extinction. The environmental DNA, or eDNA, kit was designed specifically for the species with the hope of finding any unknown female individuals in the lakes of Vietnam, in order to eventually establish a captive-breeding program.
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