Monitoring biodiversity using Wildlife Sound and Conservation Technology

Dr Mark Bowler, Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for Wildlife, Ecology and Conservation Science at the University of Suffolk, will discuss the work he is doing with wildlife enthusiasts and students in the Suffolk community, which has led to detecting one of the UK’s rarest bat species in the county.

The University of Suffolk is at the forefront of citizen science bioacoustic monitoring, from towns and farms in East Anglia to the Amazon Rainforest in Peru. We’ll listen to some bat calls from the local area with our ultrasound speaker and detectors and see some students’ work at Foxburrow Reserve, Martlesham Wilds, Sutton Hoo and the Peruvian Amazon.

The lecture will also explain more about our plans to arm Woodbridge’s wildlife enthusiasts with the means to monitor wildlife sounds as our partners work to enhance our biodiversity.