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Register animal-tracking tags to boost conservation

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the value of pooling animal-tracking data — a global tag registry would facilitate data discovery and collaboration.
  1. Christian Rutz

    1. Christian Rutz is founding president of the International Bio-Logging Society and a professor in the School of Biology, University of St Andrews, UK.

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In early 2020, my colleagues and I realized that animal-tracking data collected before, during and after the pandemic lockdowns could provide invaluable insights into human–wildlife interactions and conservation benefits on a global scale. We launched a research consortium — the COVID-19 Bio-Logging Initiative — to investigate how animals behaved while much of the world’s human population sheltered at home.

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Nature 609, 221 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-02821-6

Competing Interests

This article is a contribution of the COVID-19 Bio-Logging Initiative, which is funded in part by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (GBMF9881) and the National Geographic Society (NGS-82515R-20) (both grants to C.R.), and endorsed by the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.

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