Monitoring application

Citizen science is essential and enables large-scale data collection on major environmental issues.
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Monitoring tools are already implemented across Europe, but we still suffer from a lack of data on stranded birds, which are yet a great indicator of pollution sources. Monitoring initiatives already exist, such as Faune France, a naturalist portal managed by LPO where naturalist experts provide bird monitoring but do not help with stranded seabirds monitoring on a large scale.

ICAO App A monitoring tool for the wide public

SEO, as a member of LIFE SeaBil Project, manages the monitoring mobile application ICAO, which allows to track stranded seabirds, but its complexity makes it difficult to use by a large audience.

With LIFE SeaBil Project, we adapted the ICAO tool and made it available for a wide audience to allow opportunistic citizen monitoring in France, Spain, and Portugal.

ICAO has also been associated with MARNOBA, a marine litter monitoring tool to invite users to collect data on these related issues.

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Get involved in the project and make opportunistic monitoring on the beach with ICAO.

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ICAO manual de Usario (pdf - 3.58 Mo)

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Adapt an application for stranded seabirds monitoring for a wide audience – 300 downloading 

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