Course content

Contains five recorded speaker presentations and Q&A transcripts

  1. Camera Trapping Mammals Virtual Symposium

  2. MammalWeb: People Power for Wild Mammal Monitoring with Camera Traps

  3. The NHMP: Developing a New National Camera Trap Survey for Hedgehog Conservation

  4. Camera Traps: A Window into the Secretive Lives of Otters

  5. Surveying Trees for Bats: A New Hope

  • £5.00

What presentations will feature in this virtual symposium?

Aimed at wildlife researchers, conservation practitioners, and nature enthusiasts who wish to enhance their skills in using camera traps and gain insights from experts on cutting-edge mammal monitoring techniques.

  • Learn how the National Hedgehog Monitoring Programme (NHMP) collects data to estimate hedgehog populations and how you can contribute from home.

  • Explore how tree-roosting bats can be monitored using trail cameras to improve survey methods and gain insights into their behaviour.

  • Understand how identifying individual otters with camera traps and CCTV can reveal detailed patterns of their secretive lives and behaviour.

  • Discover how the MammalWeb citizen science platform engages volunteers in large-scale mammal monitoring and manages millions of camera-trap images for research and conservation.

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Virtual Sympsoiums

This content was generated through our virtual symposium programme. These one-off events cover a wide range of conservation, ecology and natural history topics such as Biodiversity Net Gain, biological recording and wildlife gardening.