Volunteer teams expand camera-trap grid in the Kanuku Mountains

Volunteer teams working with the Kanuku camera-trap network installed twelve new stations along the southern boundary of the protected area last month, bringing the active grid to forty-eight units across three transects.

The new stations follow old logging tracks that were abandoned in the late 1990s. Technicians say those corridors are where secondary forest is thickest, and where mid-sized mammals are most often recorded.

Deployment took nine days. Two stations were moved after flooding made the original sites unreachable, and one unit was lost to a fallen branch.