One-Day Occupancy Modeling Workshop (July 24, 2022)

Green Pixel with Nature Conservation and Study Center – NCSC is organizing a one-day occupancy modeling workshop (July 24, 2022) targeted at students and early careers who are planning to use occupancy for their thesis/project. This workshop will introduce participants to the use of occupancy, its assumptions and terminologies in the first half. In the …

Writing popular articles for conservation/environment

Communicating findings and results of any scientific research to general public and policy makers is crucial to influence policy making and general public opinion in conservation. Popular articles in newspaper and magazines can bridge the gap between scientific community and general public. Hence, more and more conservation and wildlife biologists are using this platform to …

Conservation Film-making

Communication is a key aspect for any successful conservation. With the access of high quality cameras, videos and films are now one of the most accessible and effective communication tool for conservationists. This intensive one month course on conservation film-making is targeted for all the conservationists and wildlife biologists who want to up their communication …

Species Distribution Modelling

Species distribution modelling (SDM) are one of the most used tools in conservation to predict and assess habitats of wildlife. This workshop introduces participants to basics of SDMs, different types of SDMs and workings of some SDMs. It includes Introduction to species distribution modelling Types of species distribution modelling Predictor variables Presence only SDM (using …

Wildlife study design and data analysis

This six days intensive workshop focuses on wildlife researches. Participants will be introduced to distributions used frequently for wildlife study, basic simulation, R packages used for occupancy and secr analysis, and some key issues of data management. Bayesian approach for wildlife study will be introduced but won’t be discussed in detail. This course includes Binomial …

Data management for camera trapping surveys

Camera traps are being used more and more often these days and are one of the most reliable ways to study wildlife. However, these cameras capture a lot of images, some wanted and some unwanted. Managing these huge datasets is something every wildlife biologists should know about. Our short three days workshop will allow researchers …