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Research
Accessing the Large Mammal Community of Lopé National Park.
Large mammals found across Lopé National Park play a crucial role in shaping this beautiful forest-savannah transitional landscape. However, their population is threatened, and as you can imagine, it is more intense around the edges of the forest.
To ensure effective conservation of both wild animals and the landscape, we need to further understand the population structure of large mammals and their interactions with the landscape especially around the forest edge.
We are using camera trap data from the forests of Lopé National Park that were collected by Anabelle Cardoso who hosted the Elephant Expedition project on Zooniverse some years ago as part of her Ph.D. We have over a million photos from the field, but we have tried to sort out empty images. So, be confident you will see some animals in most photos as you go along.
What we need you to do help do is to identify the animal(s) in each of the photos, indicate the number of individuals you see and tell us what you find the animal(s) doing. We have provided more information to guide you as you go along.
We decided to classify these photos on Zooniverse because we are interested in fostering public participation in biodiversity conservation research which is one of the objectives of this study. We hope that this increases awareness to the status of and threats to wildlife in Lopé and inspire conservation action. Thus, we have asked all our volunteers to indicate once, if they have any professional affiliation with biodiversity conservation. We also encourage you to share your experience on Wild Gabon with us. Please email charles.emogor@linacre.ox.ac.uk to get in touch!
Thank you so much for your time!