The STRAYS team have been back in Lviv carrying out mark-recapture dog surveys! Calculating how many animals live in an area is a core research method for many biologists working in the management of animal populations. Many different mathematical methods are available to calculate animal numbers, but usually these require a lot of time, people and cost to collect the data. We have been working together with local organisation, animal-id.info, to find a time-efficient and accurate method to record information on the number of dogs in cities around Europe. Animal-id.info use volunteers to count dogs and using their mobile app, they have been able to calculate the number of dogs in numerous cities across Ukraine and in other countries. The Animal-id.info app uses an automated data processing system to calculate the number of dogs in an area from the data that volunteers enter into the app on specific counting days. Animal-id.info use the World Animal Protection (WAP) approved method to calculate the number of dogs. This software and technology makes the counting of animals quick and cost-efficient. Animal-id.info have been able to track changes in the numbers of stray dogs in numerous cities over the last few years using this method. The STRAYS team have also been using the Animal-id.info software for our own data collection. We have now used the animal-id.info app to aid data collection in Italy and Ukraine and it has made the process smooth and easy!
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
|