Habitat Info together with Savage & Gray Designers produced an eye-catching poster summarising the principal outputs of the African Vulture Hotspot Mapping Project. Design costs were covered by The Peregrine Fund and Wangeningen University. The poster provides a practical tool for conservationists seeking to…
The functionality of the African Raptor Observation Mobile Apps on both iOS and Android have been extended and enhanced globally on behalf The Peregrine Fund and their Global Raptor Impact Network or GRIN. The Apps are built on the new full raptor species list…
Habitat Info accessed biodiversity information from West Wales Biodiversity Information Centre and heritage site information from Dyfed Archaeological Trust to compile an attractive map composition of local features to aid management by the local community.
Luke Sutton spent the summer months on an internship at Habitat Info mobilising over 30 million raptor records from GBIF on behalf The Peregrine Fund. Assisted by Simon Trice
Habitat Info have been contracted by OneWorld Sustainable Investments to do the mapping for a climate risk & vulnerability assessment of the City of Cape Town. Working with OneWorld and the CSIR, habitat Info will work at a very high spatial resolution to help…
Birdlife International and the Biodiversity Consultancy accessed data on vulture sightings from the African Raptor Databank and then commissioned Habitat Info to assist them in the analysis of vulture movement patterns from satellite and GPS tracking data across Kenya. Results of distance travelled, mean…
Tim Wroblewski represented Habitat Info again at a OneWorld workshop on climate risk and vulnerability for this amazing river basin and flood plain in Western Zambia. He presented our new analysis for Zambia and the region that includes a new fisheries capacity assessment.
OneWorld extend their risk and vulnerability analysis and habitat Info’s map results from the Kafue Basin to include the three northern provinces of Zambia
Habitat Info reviewed recent sightings data of porpoises and other cetceans recorded off Strumble Head near Fishguard. This vantage point overlooks a prime site for Harbour Porpoise as they forage in the tidal races. We spent a really enjoyable day watching the sights and…
Nature Kenya contracted Habitat Info to extract the latest information from the poisoning incident database maintained by The Peregrine Fund and the Endangered Wildlife Trust to compose a map of the country highlighting areas that are more exposed to the risk of poisoning.
Built on the success of the African Raptor Databank, the Peregrine Fund contracted Habitat Info to go global with the database. In consultation with numerous raptor biologists Habitat Info expanded the schema of the ARDB into a truly relational database with multiple data tables…
Claire Spottiswoode of Cambridge and Cape Town Universities has been conducting fascinating work looking at honey hunters in Niassaland (northern Mozambique) and their use of the Honeyguide bird in finding honey sources. Claire and her team commissioned Habitat Info to design a logical app…
2,406 records received 25th April- 24th July Total records to date are 201,620 Continued excellent coverage in South Africa, Namibia and Senegambia The most dominant country in terms…
Last week we welcomed Luke Sutton to the team on a part-time summer internship. Supported by the Peregrine Fund, Luke will be working to build the Global Raptor Information Network’s (GRIN) database of global raptor observations by incorporating data from online databases, museum specimens, and…
It’s wonderful to experience the changing seasons in Rookwood. The mixed collection of sycamore, oak and ash trees sprout a thick canopy of leaves high above that throws the understorey in to deep, cool shade, whilst their trunks disappear beneath a rising undergrowth of…
14,169 records received 1st January- 24th April A major update from Tanzanian Bird Atlas A fantastic contribution of records from the National Geographic Okavango Wilderness Project Other highlights include more data from Angola, Mauritania, Malawi and Uganda Total records to date are 199,214 …
We’ve had some unusually harsh winter weather recently caused by Storm Emma and the Beast from the East. The Pembrokeshire coast was swathed in snow and froze solid for several days. For the human residence it was mostly inconvenient with roads impassable as well…
6,425 records received during December Highlights include records from Mauritania, Angola and more than 4000 records from Tanzania Total records end of December 2017 at 190,214 December was a great month for ARDB submissions with more than 6,000 records logged; 70% of these…
1,242 records received during November Highlights include records from Nigeria and Northern Botswana Total records end of November 2017 at 183,789 We were delighted to receive an incidental observation from Nigeria where Michael Manja recorded a Hooded Vulture. The last time we…
5,369 records received during October Highlights include records from Cape Verde islands and historical data from Volker Salewski for Senegal Total records end of October 2017 at 182,547 October was a great month for contributions with more than half of these (3053) coming…