Designing and using innovative technologies and techniques for the survey and monitoring of priority threatened populations

The assessment of the status of threatened populations is the first step in their conservation, and their continued assessment is vital in evaluating the effectiveness of conservation interventions.

Chester Zoo is at the forefront of designing new techniques for population monitoring such as testing the efficacy of wearable tracking equipment, testing marking methods for recapture and the use of Artificial Intelligence software for analysing large datasets such as images from camera traps or recordings from passive acoustic monitoring.