Mammal Species Inventory - Madikwe Game Reserve: Report 1 - June 2018 to November 2019

SnapshotSafari is a transnational program aiming at providing a greater knowledge about mammal populations accross southern Africa. Thanks to standardized camera traps (CTs) grid, deployed in various locations reflecting a diversity of conservation states (from protected areas to highly transformed areas), SnapshotSafari aims at describing mammal population abundances, diversities and spatial occurrences. The data provided will benefit Research, in fields as broad as Genetics, Ecology or conservation Biology, as well by providing to conservation planning a comprehensive synthesis of which species can be found in their location, with which abundance...etc.

The project is coordinated in South Africa by Nelson by Mandela University’s Wildlife Ecology Lab. The images collected by the CTs (as much as thousands per site) are sent to the United States (University of Minnesota) to be processed via a participative science plateform (Zooniverse) and machine learning (a popular IT field that allows automatized recognition of elements in an image, for instance antelopes in a landscape photo).

SnapshotSafari是一项跨国项目，旨在增进对南非地区哺乳动物种群的认识。得益于在多种保护状态（从保护区至高度改造区域）的多种地点部署的标准化相机陷阱（CTs）网格，SnapshotSafari致力于描述哺乳动物种群密度、多样性和空间分布。所提供的数据将为遗传学、生态学或保护生物学等广泛领域的科研工作提供支持，同时为保护规划提供关于特定地点可以找到哪些物种及其丰富度的综合概述。项目由南非纳尔逊·曼德拉大学的野生动物生态实验室协调。由相机陷阱收集的图像（每个地点可达数千张）被发送至美国明尼苏达大学，通过参与式科学平台（Zooniverse）和机器学习（一种流行的人工智能领域，允许自动识别图像中的元素，例如景观照片中的羚羊）进行处理。