Press
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AudioMoth in the News
2023
BBC - Our Changing Planet
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An episode of the BBC documentary series featuring HydroMoth being used to monitor reefs.
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BBC - Supersenses
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An episode of the BBC Radio 4 podcast about how conservationists use sound to protect animal habitats. Evelyn Piña Covarrubias is interviewed about our use of AudioMoth in Belize.
2021
Science - Ecology in the age of automation
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AAAS Science article about how biodiversity sampling is being driven by small, low-power computing devices; advances in wireless communications; and an explosion in automated data-recognition algorithms in the field of machine learning.
BBC iPlayer - Highlands Rewilding
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BBC Countryfile episode showing AudioMoth being used to as part of the Natural Capital Laboratory in Scotland.
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The Economist - All kinds of new technology are being used to monitor the natural world
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Article on how new technology, such as AudioMoth, are being used to help monitoring and protect biodiversity.
Wall Street Journal - Better data, cheaper tech promise to unlock nature's secrets
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Article by Jackie Snow on how conservationists hope newly launched open-source tools will lend more insight into endangered species and the effects of climate change.
Journal of Open HW - Open hardware provides a better chance for scientific reproducibility
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Article by Andrew Hill and Alasdair Davies on how open hardware provides a better chance for reuse, data reproducibility and access.
2020
BBC iPlayer - Inside the Bat Cave
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BBC documentary showing AudioMoth being used to discover the secret world of one of the most endangered and least understood animals on earth – bats.
The Guardian - New sensor offers a window into the secret lives of Britain's rarest bats
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Article by Phoebe Weston on how AudioMoth was used to identify 1.7 million bat calls.
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2019
BBC - Endangered bats: The manicure helping to save a species
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Article by Helen Briggs with picture showing AudioMoth
Press
WightLink - Wightlink helps to plot the journey of one of the Isle of Wight’s most special seasonal visitors
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Wight Link press release by Karen Woods where Adrain Bicker describes using AudioMoth to monitor bat migration
Hackerfarm - Tech 4 Good : AudioMoth
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Article in the Tech 4 Good series where Hackerfarm reviews and discusses technology designed for humanitarian, development, or environmental applications
Silicon Labs - Open Acoustic Devices takes low power to new heights for wildlife conservation
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Blog by Lance Looper describing how the Silicon Labs processor lowers the power for acoustic monitoring
2018
Chinadialogue - Five technologies to save wildlife from traffickers
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Article by Catherine Early introducing technology built in collaborations between conservationists and tech developers.
RSEC blog - Optimization of sensor deployment for acoustic detection and localization in terrestrial environments
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Article and video introducing our recent paper on sensor optimisation
Medium Article - Acoustic monitoring made affordable with AudioMoth
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Article by Holly Baines discussing how AudioMoth is manufactured and supported at a low cost
Sparkfun Blog - Scaling Open-Source Conservation Technology
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Article by Megan Arnold describing how AudioMoth has been scaled to enable global conservation projects
Mongabay Latam Article - Acoustic monitoring: a new system to fight against hunting and illegal logging
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Article by Yvette Sierra Praeli describing how acoustic monitoring can be used to prevent poaching
Mongabay Article - ‘AudioMoth’ device aims to deliver low-cost, power-efficient monitoring of remote landscapes
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Article by Mike Gaworecki describing the Methods in Ecology and Evolution publication
2017
WWF Conservation Technology - Acoustic Monitoring for Conservation and Ecological research
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PDF report by WWF describing the guidelines of using acoustic monitoring, featuring a case study using AudioMoth
BES Press Release - Listening in: Acoustic monitoring devices detect illegal hunting and logging
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Press release by Sabrina Weiss describing Evelyn Piña Covarrubia's presentation at the ‘Ecology Across Borders’ conference in Ghent
Oxford Sparks Podcast - Where have all the cicadas gone?
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Podcast asking Prof Alex Rogers, Peter Prince and Andrew Hill: Where have all the cicadas gone?
New Scientist Article - Hanging on: In search of the bat that returned from the dead
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Article by Ollie Wearn using AudioMoth to monitor the Cuban greater funnel-eared bat
Medium Article - Listening to the mountain: Using audio recorders to monitor forest birds in Kenya
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Article by Ciira Maina using early prototypes of AudioMoth to monitor the forest birds in Kenya
New Scientist Article - Drones listen in on bats to reveal their in-flight secrets
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Article by Chris Baraniuk using AudioMoth to monitor bats by drone
Journal of Animal Ecology Press - New technologies for listening to bats
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Article by Simon Hoggart using AudioMoth to monitor bats in Madeira
BBC - The search for Britain's only native species of cicada
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Article by Chris Baraniuk introducing an early version of AudioMoth to monitor the New Forest cicada
