A massive ten-year-long biodiversity study that represents the largest camera trap effort ever has now been turned into a free mobile game called Unseen Empire.
Oxford professor David Macdonald and his Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) undertook the study to research the impact of deforestation on the habitat of the clouded leopard — an endangered large cat — writers Internet of Elephants.
The research team set up a hidden network of 160 automatically-triggered cameras in a 50,000-acre grid in Myanmar’s forests to give them the opportunity to catch a glimpse of this elusive cat, but they not only found a visible record of the “practically unstudied clouded leopard,” but also a confirmation of other endangered species present in the area. All of the small pieces of data gathered about the clouded leopard contribute towards building “a rich portrait of the…
