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Year: 2024
July 29, 2024January 23, 2026
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Zoo Zürich Conservation Academy
In late June and early July, our chair, Thomas Mattern, traveled to Switzerland for the inaugural Zoo Zürich Conservation Academy workshop. The Zoo Zürich Conservation Academy is organized and run by Zoo Zürich, comprising researchers and conservationists working on projects that align with the zoo’s principal regional exhibits. Zoo Zürich employs an ‘ecosystem’ approach, displaying...
May 19, 2024January 23, 2026
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Penguins from above – Zooniverse β
How we count penguins on drone images - with the help of netizens...
May 6, 2024January 23, 2026
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Drone Deploy spotlight
Our work in the subantarctic region relies heavily on the use of drones. But surveying penguin colonies with flying cameras is only a third of the job done. Another third is processing these data into massive aerial photos (aka “orthomosaics”) that allow us to count penguins. And this is why our partnership with DroneDeploy is...
March 27, 2024January 23, 2026
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Voice of Tangaroa
During the past two expeditions to the subantarctic islands, our team was joined by journalists from both Radio New Zealand and NZ Geographic. During the 2022 expedition, NZ Geographic publisher James Frankham and award winning photographer Richie Robinson documented our work on the Bounty Islands, while in January 2024, Claire Concannon came along when the...
February 15, 2024January 23, 2026
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Subantarctic expedition on air
The first episode of Radio New Zealand's coverage of the Tawaki Project's subantarctic expeditions 2023/24 is out...