The latest issue of the prestigious scientific journal Nature features an article by ecologist Peter Mikula from bullab at the Department of Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU), in its ‘Correspondence’ section.
Under the title ‘Conservation planning should follow animal clocks’, the author summarises that effective and efficient wildlife conservation should not only protect the right places, but also ensure that these places are accessible to animals at the right time. Modern monitoring technologies, such as camera traps, acoustic recorders, GPS trackers and citizen science platforms, now make it possible to track when animals use specific areas and during which periods human activity is most likely to disturb them. Such temporal information should then inform management decisions, such as the designation of quiet periods, restrictions on access to areas where species are present, or the appropriate timing of fieldwork.
Read the original article in English.