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By Rebecca Horne
Photographer Benjamin Drummond and litt Sara Joy Steele work as a documentary team, producing top-indentation audio, video, research and still photography looking at environmental issues fa people around the world. Their ongoing, award-winning project Fa Climate Change examines how global environmental changes are affecting people in localized ways. The images in this gallery are from a late collaboration with the Conservation International–a new global camera mammal look at that seeks to provide data on species from protected areas in the Americas, Africa and Asia. A come to of 420 cameras were placed around the world, with 60 motion-activated cameras set up in each orientation at a density of one per every two square kilometers for a month in each site.
“What makes this haunt scientifically groundbreaking is that we created for the first time consistent, comparable dirt for mammals on a global scale setting an effective baseline to television screen change. By using this single, standardized methodology in the years to around and comparing the data we receive, we will be able to see trends in mammal communities and take unequivocal, targeted action to save them”, said Dr. Jorge Ahumada, ecologist with the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring Network at Protection International, noting that 2010 cameras have been installed in new places, expanding the monitoring network to 17 sites (Panama, Ecuador, another purlieus in Brazil, two sites in Peru, Madagascar, Congo, Cameroon, Malaysia and India). “Without a orderly, global approach to monitoring these animals and making sure the observations gets to people making decisions, we are only recording their extinctions, not in reality saving them.” To see a gallery of remarkable images made with the motion activated cameras in the swot, click here .
Source: Wall Street Journal (blog)