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Badgers lead the way with innovation

It’s more than a decade since I first met Andrew Markham, Oxford’s Professor of Computer Science, writes David Macdonald. Andrew’s innovative wizardry has revolutionised WildCRU’s work, from recording the long-distance roars of lions to following badgers deep underground. Those subterranean badgers have led the way to mapping with applications from mines to skyscrapers: https://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/content/positioning-challenging-environments   revealing the synergy between conservation and technology, a field in which WildCRU has been at the forefront since Charlie Amlaner and David Macdonald hosted the first international conference on Biotelemetry and Radio Tracking in 1979 (published, as a Handbook,  by Pergamon Press).