See video highlights from the CahowCam1 burrow LiveStream where this year’s star chick continues to be well attended to by its parents. The clips in the video below were edited from the archival video from when it was 4 days old. (The cameras live stream video when internet access is available, while in parallel recording and archiving it locally for scientific purposes).
The Nonsuch Expeditions, founded and managed by ConservationTech Developer J-P Rouja, has been LiveStreaming from two of the man-made underground nesting burrows in Translocation Colony A from the world-renowned Nonsuch Island nature reserve in Bermuda for 10+ years. The platform uses custom-built cameras and military-grade 940nm IR lighting arrays, which, as Nonsuch Island is completely off-grid requires ongoing solar power and wireless internet to get the signal back to the Bermuda mainland. From there, it is uploaded to: the cloud, project partners the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and then on to YouTube etc., all of which has been designed and built to be as Hurricane resistant as possible.
For the past 7 years, through a partnership with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology 10’s of millions of minutes of “CahowCam” LiveStreams, archival video replays, and regular nest check videos with the warden Jeremey Madeiros have been watched by scientists, students and the general public from around the World. These observations and lessons learned about the otherwise hidden and unknown lives of one of the rarest seabirds on the planet are contributing greatly to the recovery and conservation of the species and are a key component of the official management and recovery plan.
We leverage, and when required develop technologies to assist with Biodiversity Conservation and to solve conservation challenges, using Nonsuch Island, Bermuda’s wide range of marine habitats, and the Sargasso Sea as a field station and testing ground for conservation tech, with a wide range of global partners, whilst collaborating with and assisting the Bermuda Department of the Environment and Natural Resources.
This includes a recent Darwin+ grant for Sea Grass monitoring, The Bermuda Petrel Biomonitotiong Project, The Bermuda Whale Song Project, The Message in a Bottle Plastic Tracking Project, several passive acoustic projects with Cornell, a cloud-based AI-assisted rodent detection system with The Nature Conservancy, a coral reef photogrammetry project with UCSD, and most recently creating Reference Genomes of the Cahow and other keystone, signature Bermuda species with the new BioQuest NGO, of which JP is also the Director.
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