Workshop was on using Acoustic Monitoring for Conservation. It was co-organised by SCB Cameroon, the Congo Basin Institute, and the Atkinson Centre for a Sustainable Future Faculty Fellow, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Itheca, New York.
The goal of this workshop was to introduce this acoustic approach to promising researchers, conservationists, and field technicians working in Central Africa.
The workshop touched on everything from basic concepts and examples of where Passive Acoustic Monitoring can be used (and where it can’t), to the hands-on operation of an acoustic recorder and experience with the techniques for deploying them in the forest.
Participants learned about data management, how to work with sound analysis software, extract the data of interest, and touched on the design of automated detection algorithms.
Participants came from all over Central Africa (expenses for travel and accommodation during the workshop was paid by Cornell Lab of Ornithology). Although talks and instruction were given in English, a translator for French speakers was present.