Embedding Horizon and Linkit Argos CLS Group transmitters into plastic marine litter has enabled the low-cost tracking of litter across oceans, revealing the final destination of plastic pollution OneOcean

Help us shape the future of Clean Catch! Our April newsletter comes with the link to a short survey asking for your views on Clean Catch to date, plus a variety of exciting programme updates & other news and research on #wildlife #bycatch 👉 loom.ly/lDHMXH0

Getting ready to take Arribada Initiative's new time lapse camera for a test dive! It'll be sat off the coast of Bermuda observing Seagrass. It's designed around an adafruit industries Feather + Wing and an Arducam Mega for easy image capture. And of course Zephyr Project for SW application!

Natural History Museum Pitcairn MPA Plastic Odyssey Ascension Conservation St Helena National Trust ZSL Conservation ZSL ⛴ 🌏 Marine Science 🐠 🐟 By tracking the fine scale movements of bottles at sea we can link point sources of pollution to downstream impacts hundreds of kilometers away
⛴ 🌏 Marine Science 🐠 🐟 Arribada Initiative

Delighted that Arribada Initiative's engineering team are partnering with Rob Appleby to develop the ultimate drop-off device for wildlife tags, aptly named, the TimeLord! as recipients of a WILDLABS Community and Arm award ☄️⏲️

Great talks by our friends in the Cornwall Wildlife Trust 〓〓 MSN, James Barnett and the CMPT team, Ben Tutt-Leppard our fantastic PhD students Helen Chadwick Emma Hunter Kate Chadwick and many others... Great day all round 🙂👏

📢Our Technical Field Officer job opportunity to support #OperationPangolin conservation technology research and development closes this Wed 13th March 2024 arribada.org/working-for-ar…

Our Technical Research Officer position to help test and evaluate conservation technologies for #OperationPangolin closes on the 29th Feb 2024. 📢👀

Arribada Initiative's latest prototype, designed for tracking aid packages in remote and hostile environments! We're using Blues for connectivity and a long range RFID scanner for picking up UHF tags/stickers on packages. All running on Zephyr Project RTOS!

The moment I’ve dreamed of for years is here: my first-ever book is out with Bloomsbury Books UK today.

What does the return of #WildBoar to the UK mean for our landscapes, our other wildlife, and us – and how do the boar live their lives? All is revealed in GROUNDBREAKERS. 🧵

Arribada has a new Technical Research Officer position to join us on #OperationPangolin , helping to trial and deploy conservation technologies in Cameroon & Gabon. Includes the chance to be taught how to tree climb and access the canopy - arribada.org/working-for-ar… WILDLABS Community

Outcomes and future recommendations from our summer webinar with GOSH, Making Waves: Open Hardware as a Solution to Scaling up Bycatch Mitigation, have been posted on our website arribada.org/2023/12/03/mak…🌊🐳🐬

BIG news, whale lovers... #GivingTuesday is almost here and we’re highlighting some of our conservation work with The Nature Conservancy

bit.ly/SCOUT_Whales

I'm happy to announce that #Insight360 has a new website🙏 Insight360 is a REM solution for monitoring fishing activity & accidental #bycatch , utilising machine learning to help fishers share their story at sea through video and voice insight360monitoring.org #WorldFisheriesDay

Introducing #Insight360 , a new remote electronic monitoring solution (REM) combining hard-earned fishing knowledge with cutting-edge machine intelligence to transform how marine #wildlife #bycatch is documented onboard UK #fishing vessels. Learn more at insight360monitoring.org

An early perfboard prototype of our Arribada Initiative Raspberry Pi Pico-based Timelapse Camera running on Zephyr Project. Will be webUSB configurable, support low power (Pico powered off) with calendar wake up as well as support a MicroPython flavour!

🌟NEW PAPER🌟

Baseline study of #plasticpollution on the beaches of Príncipe island 🌊🏝️🇸🇹

Amazing to work with the team at Fundação Príncipe Estrela Matilde on the Whitley Fund for Nature project

Read here: doi.org/10.1016/j.mare…

🎉 We are excited to announce that Project SIARC are through to the finals of The National Lottery Awards!
💙 Please support us by voting for us online lotterygoodcauses.org.uk/awards and by tweeting our unique hashtag #NLASIARC (a retweet of this post will count too!)
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It's the last week of the #µMoth GroupGets campaign, a micro sized version of AudioMoth designed for animal-borne monitoring in collaboration with Arribada Initiative and ZSL Science! Make sure you join before the round closes on Sunday groupgets.com/campaigns/1233

Today in our Conservation Tech Showcase, learn about Arribada Initiative's Club Arribada, the Conservation Tech Award winners who are expanding digital literacy and #tech4wildlife education to young future leaders!

Read about their impactful work here: wildlabs.net/article/club-a…