Mothboxes in the Field and a new Grant!

 

The mothboxes are being deployed with Hubert's team in western panama, and the results are already looking cool!

after lots of iterations and tweaks they are running pretty well! and we are testing them in central, western, and mountain areas of panama! And we have some helpful scripts here for controlling cameras and scheduling for raspberry pis that you all might find interesting or useful for many other projects! https://github.com/Digital-Naturalism-Laboratories/Mothbox Plus really cool big news is that we won a Wildlabs.net grant to continue mothbox development!

You can see more here: https://wildlabs.net/article/announcing-wildlabs-awards-2024-awardees This is something like 4-5 times the entire budget we've had in the history of the mothbox development, so we are excited to see where we can take it with a bit more funding! And thanks to the whole ad-hoc mothbox team that helped us get this far already! A lot of this money will be used to pay for design time as well as hiring local community field assistants through the awesome reforestation group Pro-Eco Azuero!