Scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), working in the vast Amazon basin,
The full data set includes 154,123 records of 317species (185 birds, 119 mammals and 13 reptiles). It is the largest database of photographs of a wide range of wild animals in the Amazon to date. All photographs were taken between 2001 and 2020 at 143 field sites.
WCS images from Bolivia, Brazil,Colombia, Ecuador and Peru see playful baby jaguars, a giant anteater lounging in a mud puddle, elusive short-eared dogs, as well as tapirs, white-lipped peccaries, harpies, toucans, pumas, Andean bears and dozens of other species. Jaguars and Andean bears are a priority types for WCS.
The purpose of the research is to create a databasedata images of Amazon wildlife, and document habitat loss, fragmentation and climate change. The Amazon basin covers nearly 8.5 million km² in Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
This work is the first time that camera trap images from different regions of the Amazon have been collected and standardized on such a large scale.
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